
Principal Statistician - EMEA (Many Locations) - Sponsor-dedicated
Syneos Health
Principal Statistician - EMEA (Many Locations) - Sponsor-dedicated
Principal Statistician role at Syneos Health, a life sciences services organization, supporting sponsor-dedicated clinical trials across EMEA. Requires graduate degree in biostatistics, extensive clinical trial experience, and proficiency in R programming. Responsibilities include leading statistical tasks, mentoring biostatisticians, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
Principal Statistician - EMEA (Many Locations) - Sponsor-dedicated
Principal Statistician role at Syneos Health, a life sciences services organization, supporting sponsor-dedicated clinical trials across EMEA. Requires graduate degree in biostatistics, extensive clinical trial experience, and proficiency in R programming. Responsibilities include leading statistical tasks, mentoring biostatisticians, and ensuring high-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.
- Supports business development activities by contributing to proposals, budgets, and attending sponsor bid defense meetings.
- Performs other work-related duties as assigned.