Principal Statistician

**Site Name**: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage

**Posted Date**: Apr 29 2024

Speciality and Primary Care Statistics is proud to support drug development efforts in Immunology, Hepatology, Gastro-intestinal, Renal, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, Infectious Diseases, HIV, and Global Health (which covers infectious diseases like malaria and TB that impact the developing world).

Join our team of industry-leading statistician experts in data analysis and methodologic research in embedding quantitative decision-making to take smart risks and improve the probability of study and program success. Our end-to-end project support model ensures that our clinical statisticians collaborate across the entire range of clinical drug development, from early clinical development, to registration, approval, and marketed product support. We have individual contributor career opportunities across a range of experience levels from entry-level to industry-experienced biostatisticians.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage _Life at GSK | GSK_

**In this role you will**
- Provide statistical input to the design, analysis, reporting and interpretation of clinical studies.
- Influence clinical development plans, regulatory and commercial strategies.
- Build and maintain effective strategic working relationships with internal and external partners to meet business needs.
- Identify, develop and implement novel statistical methodologies in support of medicines and vaccines development.
- Have the opportunity to work across the entire range of drug development, from early clinical development, to registration and marketed product support due to our end-to-end project support model.

**_ Why you?_**

Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

- MSc (or equivalent) in statistics or related field
- Relevant experience as a statistician in a clinical trial setting in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Track record of strong performance as a biostatistician in an academic or industry setting.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team setting.
- Strong time management and prioritization skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with;
- Capability in building and maintaining strong working relationships in a team setting

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

- Experience with Bayesian methods
- Therapy area expertise, depending on role
- Demonstrated ability to explain novel and standard methods to scientific and clinical colleagues.
- Strong influencing skills applied effectively across functions and levels of an organization
- Track record of strong statistical contributions and accomplishments in clinical drug development, with a broad knowledge of all phases of drug development (pre-clinical; Phase I-IV).
- Experience of working with and coordinating the work of CROs.

**Closing Date for Applications: Monday 13th May 2024 (COB)**

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.- #LI-GSK_

**Why GSK?**

**Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.**

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualifi