The Senior Statistician compiles reports, charts, and tables based on established statistical methods. Analyzes and interprets data from various sources. Being a Senior Statistician typically reports to a supervisor or manager. Requires a bachelor’s degree in area of specialty. Working as a Senior Statistician typically requires 4 to 7 years of related experience. Contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project. Work is generally independent and collaborative in nature.
Senior Statistician Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Statistician to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead internal and client study team meetings effectively;
- Communicate rationale and mechanics of study designs & analysis methods;
- Mentoring/developing less experienced members of the Technical Statistics Team;
- Share scientific, technical and practical knowledge within the team and with colleagues;
- Responsible for compliance with all applicable corporate and divisional policies and procedures;
- Author simple and complex study SAP and TFL shells;
- Present study updates internally and at client meetings;
- Perform technical and consistency review of clinical trial documents including protocols, SAPs, CRFs, CSRs;
- Management of statisticians, programmers and other technical staff. Accountable for overall performance of direct reports;
- Author and review simple and complex dataset standards;
- Identify data and standards issues and resolve or escalate as appropriate;
- Calibration and offset monitoring, stability monitoring, and control batch monitoring;
- Perform work in full compliance with applicable internal and client policies, procedures, processes and training;
- Supporting the review process and product performance data to help identify change points and variables that may be influencing them;
- Support technical development trials providing input into the design of experiments (DoE) and analysing/verifying results data.
Requirements:
- Statistical programming and modeling with experience across a wide variety of topics;
- Wide clinical development knowledge across Phase I through IV studies, real world, integration studies;
- Minimum of 5 years in a CRO environment and an MSc or Ph.D. in Statistics;
- Advanced statistical expertise in a variety of area and topics;
- Experience in Integration studies preferred;
- MSc or PhD in Statistics/Biostatistics (or equivalent);
- Awareness of industry and project standards & ICH guidelines;
- Interpersonal/teamwork skills for effective interactions;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Understanding of clinical drug development process, relevant disease areas, endpoints and different study designs;
- Proven experience working within industry.