Statistical Science Director - Oncology

Overview

As Director of Statistics, you will lead a biometrics team to shape statistical strategy across product development, regulatory submissions, and health technology assessments. You will guide senior statisticians, collaborate across functions, and represent statistics in governance and external forums. You drive innovative methods and articulate uncertainty and value of the product profile. This is a mission-driven role at a global pharma leader focused on delivering patient impact through data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a group of statisticians and oversee project support
• Shape statistical design and strategy for product development, preclinical studies, regulatory activities, and HTA
• Ensure high-quality statistical content in study design, analysis, interpretation, and submissions
• Quantify benefit, risk, value, and uncertainty of the product profile and communicate it to the team
• Provide global leadership and manage work delivered by internal and external staff
• Partner with CROs to ensure on-time, quality delivery
• Represent statistics externally to health authorities, advisory boards, conferences, and payers
• Maintain and advance statistical methodology and novel approaches
• Participate in internal governance (review boards, therapy area leadership, ESPC/LSPC) and mentor Statistics staff
• Support technical education and training of stats staff

Key requirements

• MSc in Statistics or Mathematics with substantial statistics component; recognised equivalent to stats MSc
• Experience as a statistician in clinical trials, pharmaceutical development, regulated research, or related areas
• Proven track record of independently leading teams
• Exemplary technical skills in statistics and data analysis

• cross-functional collaboration
• leadership
• mentoring/coaching
• statistical design and methodology
• SAS and/or R and Python programming
• regulatory submissions knowledge

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