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Statistical Science Associate Director – Statistical Innovation, BioPharmaceuticals Biometrics
Location: Cambridge or Macclesfield (UK) Gaithersburg, Waltham, Durham or Wilmington (US) Gothenburg (Sweden)
Description
Do you have a passion for developing and aiding implementation of innovative statistical approaches and methods in clinical studies? Are you up for the challenge to impact a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If yes, we welcome you to join AstraZeneca!
At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide, while applying leading edge approaches to science across many business areas. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to act, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.
We are recruiting a Statistical Science Associate Director to join our growing Statistical Innovation group. Our main focus is providing statistical methodology support for all phases of clinical development for AZ’s Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism and Respiratory & Immunology divisions together with specific targeted support for the Oncology division and the newly acquired Alexion division of AZ which specializes in medicines to treat rare diseases.
In this role, you will belong to the Early Biometrics & Statistical Innovation (EB&SI) department, where our data-centric focus helps us work efficiently and creatively to bring the right medicines to the right patients. Our teams use their expertise in statistics and programming to address drug development objectives and reduce uncertainty in product development, driving better business decisions with quantitative reasoning. As part of the Data Science & AI team, you’ll use technology at the forefront of science in a creative environment, with the scope to develop new statistical ideas and apply them in your work.
Main duties and responsibilities
Joining a team of statistical methodology experts, you will provide key input as you work to find solutions to problems at critical stages in the drug development cycle. This is exciting and technically challenging work in a dynamic and constantly changing landscape. Your key focus will be on producing pragmatic solutions, often within a tight time scale where the emphasis will be to deliver first, then refine and develop your solutions thereafter.
You will contribute to, or lead capability build in more than one of the following statistical areas:
You will also provide expert consultancy on key issues for fellow statisticians working in our therapeutically aligned statistics groups, as well as medical scientists and other key roles across the business. This will involve leading and participating in strategic activities such as capability build projects, which can directly impact improvements to the way clinical trials are designed and analysed in AstraZeneca. As well as developing and implementing new methodology, interacting with external scientists and regulators, through publications, presentations and cross-industry collaborations. There will also be a focus to proactively identify new areas where Statistical Innovation can add value, developing collaborative relationships with the external scientific/academic community.
Requirements
Essential
Desirable
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with its headquarters at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridge, England. It has a portfolio of products for major diseases in areas including oncology, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory, and inflammation. It has been involved in developing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Cambridge, UK
2-4 year
Macclesfield, UK
2-4 year
Macclesfield, UK
2-4 year
Royston, England, UK
2-4 year
Durham, NC, USA
2-4 year
Durham, NC, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
South San Francisco, CA, USA
2-4 year
Waltham, MA, USA
2-4 year
Waltham, MA, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Macclesfield, UK
2-4 year
Cambridge, UK
2-4 year