Senior Biostatistician

Geoff King at RBW Consulting is working with an international, full service CRO in the recruitment of a Senior Statistician to work as part of the global multi sponsor team.

Established over 20 years ago and now operating across the globe, this full service CRO provide premium trial management for multi-country clinical trials, including state-of-the-art information technology solutions and innovative approaches to the increasing complexity and variety of global studies

The Senior Statistician serves as the main point of contact to the study team for statistical related matters. You will provide the study team and sponsors with advice on statistical methodology and study design while also acting as mentor to junior staff.

Main duties & responsibilities:

• Perform technical and consistency review of clinical trial documents including protocols, SAPs, CRFs, CSRs.

• Author simple and complex study SAP and TFL shells.

• Author and review simple and complex dataset standards.

• Perform data checks and data exploration (e.g. using frequencies, histograms).

• Identify data and standards issues and resolve or escalate as appropriate.

• Program and QC routine and ad hoc datasets and TFLs (in SAS) following specifications, applying good programming practice.

• Application of complex statistical techniques (e.g. mixed effects, non-linear modelling, Bayesian,

advanced survival), model checking and interpretation.

• Perform literature review and ability to extract and collate relevant information and data from external papers as needed.

• Identify and implement appropriate sample size method using software or simulations.

• Support study team in providing study design options.

• Review of project management related documents.

Key requirements:

• MSc or PhD in Statistics/Biostatistics (or equivalent).

• At least 3 years of relevant industry experience.

• Understanding of clinical drug development process, relevant disease areas, endpoints and different study designs.

• Awareness of industry and project standards & ICH guidelines.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

A comprehensive job description is available upon request.

To find out more about this fantastic opportunity or to discuss other open positions which may be of interest please contact Geoff King on +44 (0) 1293 584 300 and send your CV through to geoff.king@rbwconsulting.com or use the apply button on this page.