Principal Statistician for Clinical Trial Leadership

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Novartis Full time

About Us

Novartis is a global healthcare company that is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. We invest in new technologies and build specific therapeutic areas and platform depth and capabilities – all to bring our medicines to patients even faster.

This role is part of our Early Development team, which is guided by our purpose: to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives.

The estimated salary for this position is £90,000 - £140,000 per year, depending on experience.

Job Responsibilities

As a Principal Statistician for Clinical Trial Leadership, you will be responsible for protocol development in alignment with the development plan, developing statistical analysis plan, reporting activities, and contributing to planning and execution of exploratory analyses.

You will explain statistical methodology and interpret analysis results. You will provide statistical expertise to support clinical pharmacology submission activities and documents, responses to Health Authorities, and drug development activities, as required.

You will propose and implement innovative designs and methods to optimize dose finding and drug development.

Qualifications and Requirements

  • MS Statistics with 10+ years' work experience or PhD (in Statistics or equivalent) with 6 years + work experience.
  • Fluent in English with strong communication and presentation skills.
  • Demonstrated excellence in use of statistical software packages (e.g. SAS, R).
  • Strong understanding of early development.

About Our Team

We are a community of smart, passionate people who are committed to helping people with disease and their families.

We offer a competitive salary, hybrid working arrangements, and a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, pension scheme, and generous holiday allowance.



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