# Principal Biostatistician

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking a Principal Biostatistician to lead projects across multiple studies or programs. The successful candidate will act as the primary contact with the sponsor for all biostatistics-related activities on assigned projects.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a statistical department resource and mentor biostatisticians on job skills

- Oversee or develop training plans or materials for Biostatistics associates

- Direct the activities of other biostatistics personnel on assigned projects

- Provide independent review of project work produced by other biostatisticians in the department

- Prepare or oversee the preparation of Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs)

- Collaborate with sponsor, if required

- Create or review programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures

- Review SAS annotated case report forms (CRFs), database design, and other study documentation

- Implement company objectives and create alternative solutions to address business and operational challenges

- Interface with other departmental project team representatives

- Conduct and participate in verification and quality control of project deliverables

- Manage scheduling and time constraints across multiple projects

- Monitor progress on study activities against agreed-upon milestones

- Provide statistical programming support as needed

- Participate in Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) and/or Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) activities

- Maintain well-organized, complete, and up-to-date project documentation

- Display willingness to work with others and assist with projects and initiatives as necessary

Requirements:

- Graduate degree in biostatistics or related discipline

- Extensive experience in clinical trials or an equivalent combination of education and experience

- Proficiency in programming

- Ability to apply extensive knowledge of statistical design, analysis, relevant regulatory guidelines, and programming techniques

- Experience across all statistical tasks required to support clinical trials during the lifecycle of the project

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English

## Skills

### Required
- biostatistics
- statistical analysis
- programming
- clinical trials
- regulatory guidelines

### Nice to have
- regulatory submissions
- Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB)
- Data Monitoring Committee (DMC)

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