GILEAD
Send resume directly to: JAY.EARL@Gilead.com
Responsibilities:
- Contributes and is viewed as a key resource on departmental strategic initiatives.
- Offers advice to others within the company to help make better decisions and resolve problems.
- Provides statistical training to colleagues who are not statisticians.
- Works with Study Biostatisticians and Clinical Research Scientists to assist with innovative trial design, simulation and execution, and develop adaptive trials software tools as appropriate.
- Presents and/or publishes new statistical methodology within and outside of the company.
- Provides leadership for a departmental strategic initiative.
Requirements (Education and skillsets):
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills are required.
- Has understanding of the business beyond the area of Biostatistics and is a recognized expert outside of the company.
- Has good understanding of state-of-the-art statistical methods for drug development.
- Able to set up and influence collaborations with external academic or government organizations to extend visibility or business need of the company.
- Able to present complex statistical concepts and thinking to others.
- Able to identify the most critical aspects of a problem/issue.
- Proficiency in R or SAS programming and software development.
- Can use competitive intelligence to influence clinical development strategies.
- 9+ years of industry experience in pharma/device/diagnostics or academia experience in clinical trial research, and a PhD degree in Biostatistics or equivalent.
Send resume to: JAY.EARL@Gilead.com
* Position can be located in Foster City, CA or Seattle, WA or Morris Plains, NJ- (remote possible)
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop internal capacity of statistical software/application development and benchmark against industry-peers
- Mentor and develop the next generation of statistical software/application developers through educational sessions, forums and formal training
- Expand internal capacity of quantitative decision making on drug development approaches through extensive simulation
- Provide internal statistical consultation, facilitate and collaborate with internal and external statisticians, including statistical leaders in academia and industry, to address new statistical issues arise from clinical trials
- Build up internal repository for advanced statistical methodology
- Develop, refine and enhance statistical ideas and techniques impacting the analysis, reporting, and presentation of clinical trial data
- Provide leadership within the Department of Biostatistics on driving innovation on drug development using state-of-the-art statistical methods
- Partner with senior management and Human Resources to identify and satisfy short-term and long-term staffing needs, develops staff capabilities, and recognizes/rewards desired performance
Minimum Qualifications:
- 15+ years of industry experience in the statistical analysis of biomedical data with an MS degree in Biostatistics
- 12+ years of industry experience in the statistical analysis of biomedical data with an PhD degree in Biostatistics
- Extensive knowledge and experience in innovative study design, data analysis, and statistical software development
- Broad experience in simulation guided drug development and evaluation of simulation guided trial designs using high performance computing
- Proven effective verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills in a group setting.
- Ability to identify the most critical aspects of a problem/issue, set up the priorities, and provide a clear sense of the direction; ability to make effective decisions where information is limited or solutions may produce unpleasant consequences in the short term and use competitive intelligence to influence clinical development strategies
- Experienced in interacting with health authorities
- Strong leadership skills with great understanding of the business beyond the area of Biostatistics