Hiring company: Gilead
Responsibilities:
- Leads & Contributes - and is viewed as a key resource on departmental strategic initiatives.
- Offers advice to others within the company to help make better decisions and resolve problems.
- Provides statistical training to colleagues who are not statisticians.
- Works with Study Biostatisticians and Clinical Research Scientists to assist with innovative trial design, simulation and execution, and develop adaptive trials software tools as appropriate.
- Presents and/or publishes new statistical methodology within and outside of the company.
- Provides leadership for a departmental strategic initiative.
Requirements (Education and skillsets):
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills are required.
- Has understanding of the business beyond the area of Biostatistics and is a recognized expert outside of the company.
- Has good understanding of state-of-the-art statistical methods for drug development.
- Able to set up and influence collaborations with external academic or government organizations to extend visibility or business need of the company.
- Able to present complex statistical concepts and thinking to others.
- Able to identify the most critical aspects of a problem/issue.
- Proficiency in R or SAS programming and software development.
- Can use competitive intelligence to influence clinical development strategies.
- 12 + years of industry experience in pharma/device/diagnostics or academia experience in clinical trial research, and a PhD degree in Biostatistics or equivalent.