Principal Statistician

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Sector: Data Science
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, UK - London - New Oxford Street
Posted Date: Apr 11 2025

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Job purpose:

GSK urgently needs talented Clinical Statisticians to join our team and ensure high quality quantitative reasoning drives every project. Your role will be crucial in maximising the use of data, determining effective translational plans for end-to-end clinical development and applying innovative statistical methods. We need exceptionally talented and committed Statisticians to drive key contributions to the development of new medicines.

The Early Development Statistics (EDS) group is seeking a Principal Statistician to lead the full lifecycle of Phase 1 and PoC clinical trials, from design to reporting, and serve as the statistical representative for the study team within the larger organisation. This role covers activities from study setup to management and close-out, including drafting of study documents such as protocols and analysis plans. EDS supports all therapeutic areas in the Respiratory and Immunology Research Unit, including infectious diseases. Our team is dedicated to employing innovative clinical trial designs and statistical methodologies, with a particular focus on Bayesian techniques, to boost the probability of program success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide statistical input for the design, analysis, reporting, and interpretation of clinical studies.
• Build and maintain strategic working relationships with internal and external partners to achieve study deliverables.
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team to ensure study objectives are met.
• Identify and apply innovative statistical methodologies to support the development of medicines.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

• Master's Degree (or equivalent) in statistics.
• Relevant experience as a study statistician in clinical trials with a proven track record of strong performance.
• Expertise in statistical modelling for clinical problems, including sample size calculations for various endpoints and analysis of longitudinal data.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain statistical approaches to both scientific and clinical colleagues.
• Proficiency in programming languages like R or SAS.
• Proficiency and agility in time management and prioritization.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• PhD in statistics.
• Experience with Bayesian methods.
• Expertise in multiple statistical methodologies and their practical application.
• Ability to apply innovative statistical thinking.
• Strong influencing skills effectively utilised across functions and organisation levels.
• Experience in working with and coordinating the work of CROs.

Closing Date for Applications: 25th April 2025 (COB)

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class (US only).

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