# Statistical Planning and Delivery Lead for Clinical Research in Japan

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Tokyo, Akasaka
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

You will lead statistical planning and delivery for clinical research in Japan, working with cross-functional teams to design trials, analyse data, and support regulatory interactions.

Responsibilities:

- Act as primary statistical lead for Japan projects, contributing to study design, analysis plans, and interpretation of results.

- Collaborate with global statisticians and local cross-functional teams to align trial design and analysis across regions.

- Prepare statistical input for regulatory interactions and support submissions to Japanese health authorities.

- Oversee external statistical partners and vendors to ensure quality, timelines, and cost control.

- Apply modern statistical methods, including adaptive and Bayesian approaches, to enable efficient and ethical study designs.

- Coach and mentor statisticians and non-statistical colleagues, promoting good statistical practice and reproducibility.

Basic Qualifications:

- Degree in statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or a closely related quantitative discipline.

- At least 5 years of experience working as a statistician in randomized clinical trials, with industry or CRO experience.

- Practical experience in clinical trial design and statistical analysis.

- Proficiency with statistical software such as R or SAS and working knowledge of clinical trial data formats and conventions.

- Business-level English and fluent Japanese.

- Strong communication skills with experience explaining statistical concepts to non-statisticians.

Preferred Qualifications:

- PhD or advanced degree in statistics, biostatistics, or related field.

- Experience with regulatory submissions and direct interactions with Japanese regulatory authorities.

- Knowledge of adaptive designs, Bayesian methods, or other innovative statistical approaches.

- Background in one or more therapeutic areas relevant to our work in Japan.

- Experience managing external vendors and contract statisticians.

- Familiarity with data science tools and modern workflows oriented to reproducibility and automation.

Working Arrangement: This role is hybrid, based in Japan, combining on-site work with flexible remote days.

## Skills

### Required
- statistics
- biostatistics
- mathematics
- R
- SAS
- clinical trial design
- statistical analysis
- Japanese
- English

### Nice to have
- PhD in statistics
- regulatory submissions
- adaptive designs
- Bayesian methods
- data science tools

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