
Principal Statistician - Early Phase - Fully home based (located in Europe)
Syneos Health
Principal Statistician - Early Phase - Fully home based (located in Europe)
Principal Statistician role at Syneos Health, a life sciences services organization, fully home-based in Europe. Requires graduate degree in biostatistics, extensive clinical trials experience, and proficiency in R. Responsibilities include leading statistical tasks, mentoring, and ensuring quality deliverables.
Principal Statistician - Early Phase - Fully home based (located in Europe)
Principal Statistician role at Syneos Health, a life sciences services organization, fully home-based in Europe. Requires graduate degree in biostatistics, extensive clinical trials experience, and proficiency in R. Responsibilities include leading statistical tasks, mentoring, and ensuring quality deliverables.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Serves as a statistical department resource, mentors biostatisticians on job skills, and oversees or develops training plans or materials for Biostatistics associates.
- Directs the activities of other biostatistics personnel on assigned projects to ensure timely completion of high quality work.
- Provides support across all statistical tasks during the lifecycle of the project, from protocol to CSR.
- Prepares or oversees the preparation of Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), including development of well-presented mock-up displays for tables, listings, and figures.
- May be responsible as Lead Biostatistician for the statistical aspects of the protocol, generation of randomization schedule, and input to the clinical study report.
- Creates or reviews programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures.
- Reviews SAS/R annotated case report forms (CRFs), database design, and other study documentation to ensure protocol criteria are met.
- Implements company objectives, and creates alternative solutions to address business and operational challenges.
- As biostatistics representative on project teams, interfaces with other departmental project team representatives.
- Conducts and participates in verification and quality control of project deliverables.
- May lead complex or multiple projects (e.g. submissions, integrated analyses), and attend regulatory agency meetings or responds to questions.
- Manages scheduling and time constraints across multiple projects, sets goals based on priorities from management.
- Monitors progress on study activities against agreed upon milestones and ensures the study timelines for project deliverables are met.
- Provides statistical programming support as needed.
- May participate in Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) and/or Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) activities.
- Provides input and reviews, and subsequently follows applicable SOPs, WIs, and relevant regulatory guidelines (e.g. ICH).
- Maintains well organized, complete, and up-to-date project documentation, and verification/quality control documents and programs.
- Displays willingness to work with others and assists with projects and initiatives as necessary to meet the needs of the business.
- Prepares in advance for internal meetings, contributes ideas, and demonstrates respect for opinions of others.
- Supports business development activities by contributing to proposals, budgets, and attending sponsor bid defense meetings.
- Performs other work-related duties as assigned.