About the job
Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our Biostatistics Statistical Innovation Hub (SIH) as Statistical Project Leader (Associate Director) and you'll bring innovation to a broad and diverse portfolio of therapeutics supported by our Department of Evidence Generation and Decision Science. You will be part of a group that fosters people development, offering compelling career opportunities that value diversity of thought and abilities, to optimize overall success and have a meaningful impact on patients' lives.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
Main responsibilities:
As a Statistical Project Leader (Associate Director) in SIH, you will lead research on innovative design and decision-making approaches integrating advanced statistical methods or machine learning techniques, with minimal guidance or direction from a senior team member. You will be accountable for predictive modeling, statistical simulations, and/or leading development of a tool for novel methodology, as well as providing statistical consultations on technical issues identified from projects/studies across multiple therapeutic areas.
- Lead SIH contributions to the project stat deliverables of methodology and/or modeling and simulations that are included in the protocol, statistical analysis plan or agency briefing books with minimal guidance from a senior team member in SIH. Act as a go-to person of applying advanced innovative designs or novel methods.
- Support a specific project that involves advanced innovative designs or complex statistical modeling and simulations or novel statistical approach as an indication lead statistician.
- Develop predictive models and simulations to extract actionable insights from diverse data sources to optimize study design and decision making.
- Promote and present the implementation of cutting-edge designs and methods at internal and external venues and provide internal trainings as necessary. Drive the adoption of these approaches at study/project level internally and effectively convey complex statistical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Ensure productive collaborations with other statistical project leaders, internal/external statistical methodology experts and other key stakeholders as necessary. Represent our group when participating (and leading, if applicable) in key scientific or technology working groups or key cross function initiatives.
- Participate in professional activities, including serving as a contributing member (or leader if applicable) of working group(s)/committees/professional organizations, or serving as a scientific journal reviewer.
About you
- PhD/MS in statistics or related discipline with typically at least 5 (7 for MS) years of related experience
- Proven success and track record of innovative statistical tool development or implementation, or good track record of independent methodology research, or applying machine learning techniques to solve drug development questions.
- Broad knowledge and good understanding of advanced statistical concepts and techniques, with the capability to quickly acquire knowledge in new statistical frontiers.
- Excellent R/SAS programming skills. Strong computational skill or knowledge in other computer languages or extensive statistical simulations experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to represent wider organization in cross-company activities such as consortia or professional associations.
- Demonstrated potential leadership and great interpersonal/communication skills.
Why choose us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.
- Play a pivotal and influential role in translating the academic research into the real practice of statistical and technological advancements in healthcare.
- Immerse yourself in a diverse portfolio of projects across therapeutic areas and phases, expand your skill set, and work with a dynamic, collaborative, and forward-thinking Biostatistics team at the frontier of statistical innovation in the field.
Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Progress doesn't happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let's pursue progress. And let's discover extraordinary together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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