Principal Biostatistician (Integrated Analysis)

Updated : Today
Location : South Africa-Europe - ZAF-Home-Based
Job ID : Must be located in UK, Ireland, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, or Mexico.
Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29, employees, across countries already know : WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE.

Why Syneos Health

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.

We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

1. Serves as a statistical department resource, mentors biostatisticians on job skills, and oversees or develops training plans or materials for Biostatistics associates.
2. Conducts training sessions, or otherwise trains new hires and enhances the skills of existing personnel.
3. Directs the activities of other biostatistics personnel on assigned projects to ensure timely completion of high-quality work.
4. Provides independent review of project work produced by other biostatisticians in the department.
5. Provides support across all statistical tasks during the lifecycle of the project, from protocol to CSR.
6. Prepares or oversees the preparation of Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), including development of well-presented mock-up displays for tables, listings, and figures.
7. Collaborates with sponsor, if required.
8. May be responsible as Lead Biostatistician for the statistical aspects of the protocol, generation of randomization schedule, and input to the clinical study report.
9. Creates or reviews programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures.
10. Reviews SAS annotated case report forms (CRFs), database design, and other study documentation to ensure protocol criteria are met and all data is captured as required to support a high-quality database and the planned analysis.
11. Implements company objectives and creates alternative solutions to address business and operational challenges.
12. As biostatistics representative on project teams, interfaces with other departmental project team representatives.
13. Conducts and participates in verification and quality control of project deliverables, ensuring that output meets the expected results and is consistent with analysis described in the SAP and specifications.
14. May lead complex or multiple projects (e.g., submissions, integrated analyses), and attend regulatory agency meetings or respond to questions, as needed, to support the statistical analysis results of clinical trials on behalf of the sponsor.
15. Manages scheduling and time constraints across multiple projects, sets goals based on priorities from management, discusses time estimates for completion of study-related activities with biostatistics management, adapts to timeline or priority changes by reorganizing daily workload, and proactively communicates to biostatistics management any difficulties with meeting these timelines.
16. Monitors progress on study activities against agreed-upon milestones and ensures the study timelines for project deliverables are met.
17. Identifies out of scope tasks and escalates to management.
18. Provides statistical programming support as needed.
19. May participate in Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) and / or Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) activities, including charter development and serving as an independent non-voting biostatistician.
20. May serve as a voting statistician on DSMBs and / or DMCs.
21. Provides input and reviews, and subsequently follows applicable SOPs, WIs, and relevant regulatory guidelines (e.g., ICH).
22. Maintains well-organized, complete, and up-to-date project documentation, and verification / quality control documents and programs; ensuring inspection readiness.
23. Displays willingness to work with others and assists with projects and initiatives as necessary to meet the needs of the business.
24. Prepares in advance for internal meetings, contributes ideas, and demonstrates respect for opinions of others.
25. Supports business development activities by contributing to proposals, budgets, and attending sponsor bid defense meetings.
26. Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

Minimal travel may be required.

Qualifications

What we're looking for : Integrated Analysis specific role. Must have prior experience with the following : Integrated analysis tasks like IASAP and TLF specification preparation, clarifications with clinical team, specification of additional derivations needed in the pool, review of draft tables, planning and coordination of additional analyses for the label.

Deep knowledge of products - clinical development plan, specifically submission strategy.

Independently working on ad-hoc requests from regulatory authorities.

Methodological support for planning of Benefit / Risk analyses.

Contributor in discussions with clinical team regarding submission planning (submission experience needed).

Ad-hoc support in case for publication work and requests from clinical team.

General Requirements

1. Graduate degree in biostatistics or related discipline.
2. Extensive experience in clinical trials or an equivalent combination of education and experience, demonstrated by the ability to lead multiple projects and programs of studies.
3. Proficiency in programming.
4. Ability to apply extensive knowledge of statistical design, analysis, relevant regulatory guidelines, and programming techniques utilized in clinical research and to effectively communicate statistical concepts.
5. Experience across all statistical tasks required to support clinical trials during the lifecycle of the project, from protocol to CSR.
6. Experience with regulatory submissions preferred.
7. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
8. Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.

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Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over Studies across 73, Sites and ,+ Trial patients.

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and / or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.

Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills / experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we take into consideration transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Discover what our 29, employees already know : work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients' lives around the world.

Syneos Health is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers' delivery of important therapies to patients.