# Senior RWE Biostatistician **Company**: Fortrea **Location**: Maidenhead **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Consulting **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Fortrea/job/Maidenhead/Senior-RWE-Biostatistician_265295?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_356e0a04-f11 ## Description As an experienced Senior RWE Biostatistician within our Consulting business, you will play a pivotal role in delivering complex Real-World Evidence (RWE), non-interventional, and low-interventional research studies for leading global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Working as a trusted client-facing consultant, you will help design innovative evidence-generation strategies, lead statistical analyses, and provide scientific expertise that supports regulatory, payer, and health technology assessment (HTA) decision-making. In this role, you will apply advanced biostatistical methodologies to real-world data sources including claims databases, electronic health records (EHR), registries, and linked data assets. You will contribute to the design, execution, and interpretation of high-impact studies while supporting business development activities, scientific publications, and internal innovation initiatives. Your expertise will directly contribute to generating evidence that shapes healthcare decisions and improves patient outcomes worldwide. **What else can you expect from us?** - Rewarding and meaningful work in an established, diverse, highly profitable and respected global company - Highly competitive compensation packages, including various local benefits such as pension contributions, complimentary health insurance plans, remote working allowances, and more - A genuine work-life balance - Flexibility in working hours - A thorough onboarding program with support from your personal mentor - A permanent employment contract with Fortrea - Excellent training and career development opportunities, as well as support for continuing education - Strong support from your Fortrea Line Manager, your team, and thousands of colleagues worldwide **Your responsibilities** - Lead the design, analysis, and interpretation of non-interventional and RWE studies utilizing claims, EHR, registry, and other real-world data sources - Apply advanced causal inference and confounding-control methodologies including propensity score matching and weighting, inverse probability weighting, instrumental variable methods, marginal structural models, and difference-in-differences approaches - Design and support innovative evidence-generation strategies, including target trial emulation, external control arms, and synthetic control methodologies - Develop and review Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), statistical sections of protocols, estimands, and study design documentation - Ensure alignment of study methodologies and outputs with applicable regulatory guidance and RWE frameworks, including FDA and EMA expectations - Perform statistical quality control and promote analytic reproducibility and transparency across client engagements - Deliver strategic, scientific, and methodological expertise to clients and project teams - Manage project teams responsible for statistical deliverables while providing guidance, oversight, and mentorship - Support proposal development, budgeting, bid defenses, capability presentations, and other business development activities - Contribute to internal innovation initiatives, methodological best practices, scientific publications, and conference presentations - Mentor and develop junior statisticians and analysts through coaching, training, and performance feedback - Act as a subject matter expert for RWE methodologies and statistical best practices across the organization **Your profile** - Advanced degree in a relevant discipline such as Biostatistics, Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Data Science, Economics, Pharmacy, or a related field (Doctoral degree preferred) - Minimum of 6 years of biostatistics experience with a Master's degree, including non-interventional/RWE research experience, or at least 4 years with a doctoral degree - Proven experience leading statistical activities and delivering client-facing projects within a CRO, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or consulting environment - Demonstrated expertise in applying biostatistical methods to RWE, epidemiology, and HEOR studies - Experience utilizing real-world data sources such as claims databases, EHRs, registries, and OMOP or similar data models - Strong understanding of causal inference, comparative effectiveness research, and bias-adjustment methodologies - Experience developing SAPs, contributing to protocol design, statistical analysis, and reporting - Programming proficiency in SAS and R (Python experience is considered an advantage) - Knowledge of regulatory expectations and industry standards for RWE generation and evidence submissions - Experience managing statisticians, analysts, or project teams and mentoring less experienced team members - Strong client engagement, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills - Excellent problem-solving ability, scientific curiosity, and attention to detail - Business fluency in English, both verbal and written ## Skills ### Required - Biostatistics - Statistics - Epidemiology - Health Economics - Data Science - SAS - R - Python --- Source: [Apply at fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Fortrea/job/Maidenhead/Senior-RWE-Biostatistician_265295?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)