# Associate Director, Biostatistics

**Company**: Biostatistics
**Location**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Associate Director, Biostatistics will lead and direct biostatistics work within a project, either in-house or partnering with Contract Research Organizations (CROs), to ensure delivery to quality and time.

The role will involve leading the delivery and oversight of multiple studies/indications within a project, potentially as a Global Project Statistician for a standard drug project.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the statistical thinking and contributions to the delivery of studies, development plans, regulatory strategy, health technology assessment, and/or commercial activities

- Directing project work, including statistical staff and/or CRO partners, to ensure delivery to standards, quality, and time

- Developing design options and providing high-quality decision support to enable the business to make informed decisions about a study or project

- Quantifying the benefit, risk, value, and uncertainty of the emerging asset/product profile

- Investigating and applying novel statistical approaches, for relevant statistical issues and/or regulatory guidance and/or value demonstration, including modeling and simulation

- Leveraging standardization to maximize global data integration and interpretability

- Mentoring/coaching and supporting the education and training of statistics staff

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- 3 years' experience and an MSc/PhD in Statistics, Mathematics (containing a substantial statistical component), or recognized equivalent to stats MSc

- Strong knowledge of programming in R and/or SAS

- Knowledge of the technical and regulatory requirements related to the role

- Excellent communication skills, and ability to build strong relationships

- Flexible, well-organized, and possess the ability to work well under pressure

We would prefer for you to have:

- A PhD in Statistics/Biostatistics

- Project management skills

- Proficiency in SAS and R languages

- Knowledge of Bayesian statistics from theory to computation is a plus

## Skills

### Required
- R
- SAS
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Project Management
- Communication

### Nice to have
- Bayesian Statistics

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