Clinical Trial Methodology Expert
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Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
Location | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
Area | South East, UK |
Sector | Clinical Research |
Salary | See Job Description |
Currency | GBP |
Start Date | ASAP |
Advertiser | remoteapi |
Job Ref | BBBH641_1516985389 |
Job Views | 213 |
- Description
Our client is a global, cutting edge pharma company. If you want a role where you can support all aspects of the clinical development process and lead the provision of technical consulting expertise to external partners, this is the opportunity for you.
As a Clinical Trial Methodology Expert you'll play a pivotal role in channeling their scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients' lives.
Working within late-stage development of their innovative pipeline over three different sites.
The preferred location for the position is in Cambridge, UK, or in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Main Duties and Responsibilities as a Clinical Trial Methodology Expert
- You would be working within specific areas of business offering advanced methodological and analytical support to the drug development organisation, and is a novel, innovative, exciting and challenging place to work..
- Statistical Innovation is the methodological hub for statistical design and analysis of clinical trials. It also covers statistical methodology for observational studies, Health Economics, and decision analysis.
- As a key clinical trial methods expert you will provide consultancy to, and collaborate with, fellow statisticians as well as medical scientists and other key roles across the business.
- You will also lead and participate in more strategic activities such as capability build projects, which deliver broad improvements to the way clinical trials are designed and analyzed.
- You are expected to develop and implement new methodology and interact with external scientists and regulators, through publications, presentations and cross-industry collaborations.
- You will provide 'just in time' consulting and mentoring primarily for clinical trial design questions, proactively identify new areas where Statistical Innovation can add value, develop collaborative relationships with the external scientific/academic community, as well as innovate in collaboration with groups across the company .
- You will thus have the opportunity to use your statistical expertise to influence the design of key clinical trials that are instrumental both to the client, patients and the wider scientific community.
- In addition, you will contribute to or lead capability build in one or more of the following statistical areas: Advanced/adaptive clinical trial design, multiplicity, subgroups and biomarkers, decision analytics.
- You will work regularly in a global, cross-skilled setting, with manager, colleagues and customers
Essential Requirements
- Strong track record of research and methodological development in Statistics, supported by scientific publications in first class statistical journals
- Documented ability of delivering innovative statistical solutions in an applied environment (preferably related to clinical trial design)
- High level of competence in global and cross-skilled collaborative working
- An urge to apply your scientific competence on practical problems, for the benefit of patients
Desirable Requirements- PhD in Statistics or a related discipline, followed by considerable experience of independent academic research and/or clinical drug development
- Knowledge / research experience in group-sequential/adaptive designs, multiple testing, Bayesian statistics, optimal design theory, missing data, non-linear and mixed effect models
- Ability to implement methods computationally in the candidate's area of expertise, in for example R, SAS or the language of choice of the candidate.
- Broad awareness of statistical issues against the evolving scientific, regulatory & payer landscape
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