Remote Position
Principal Biostatistician – FTE or Contract
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Job Description:
- Provide statistical consulting for clinical trial activities and fulfill study statistician responsibilities
- Mentor and perform quality control of statistical programmers’ outputs and define analysis data specifications
- Interact with clients and clinical teams, including programmers, clinical data managers, and clinical protocol managers
- Develop, review, and finalize statistical analysis plans
- Validate programming deliverables and resolve statistical reporting and analysis issues
- Develop randomization schedules, specifications, and usage guidelines
- Contribute to study-specific data quality control plans and data analysis/reporting
- Develop, validate, and finalize tables and table shells for clinical study reports and study deliverables
- Ensure clinical team comments on statistical reports are appropriately addressed
- Analyze data and support trial progression decisions, including blinded data reviews and interim analyses
- Collaborate on regulatory reviews, representations, exploratory, ad-hoc, and post-hoc analyses
- Develop SAS programs for analysis datasets and clinical trial reporting, including tables, listings, graphs, queries, and patient profile reports
- Ensure compliance with company and industry quality standards, guidelines, and procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Master in Statistics or biostatistics preferred
- SAS® certification preferred
- 10+ years in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry or equivalent statistical consulting and SAS programming role preferred
- Strong experience with clinical study design, analysis, and sample size determination
- Experience developing randomization schedules, IVRS specifications, and usage guidelines
- Excellent knowledge of English and clear, concise, accurate written and verbal communication
- Ability to multitask with strong prioritization, planning, and organization skills
- Ability and experience delegating tasks and leading projects
- Experience working on multiple clinical protocols simultaneously
- Ability to balance conflicting priorities
- Strong knowledge of ICH, GCP, and 21 CFR Part 11 guidelines, including FDA and EMEA requirements
- Experience developing statistical analysis reports and conducting statistical analyses for blinded data reviews and interim analyses
- Knowledge of coding dictionaries including WHO, COSTART, ICD-9, and MedDRA
- Knowledge of CDISC data models including SDTM and ADaM
- Ability to develop ADaM models for clinical trial analysis and reporting
- Thorough understanding of SDTM data structures
Benefits:
- Remote work
- Work-life balance
- Inclusive culture
- Professional development and career growth opportunities
- Equal opportunity employment
- Diversity-focused workplace