Description
Acts as driver and key contact partner for statistical aspects on the methodological level. As an international specialist in complex statistical methodology to foster methodological innovation in clinical development at BI, develops innovative, more efficient statistical methods for ready-to-use applications in BI studies and projects. Supports the BDS organization via project consultations, piloting, implementation support and training regarding your statistical area(s) of expertise. Concrete application areas may include adaptive clinical trial designs, enrichment designs, aspects of multiplicity, statistical approaches to Go/noGo milestone decision making and Probability-of-Success/Assurance, as well as developing a statistical framework for drug portfolio management. Complex statistical modelling, innovative applications of Bayesian methods for leveraging external evidence in clinical development may be other application areas. Further areas of interest might be statistical methods for dose finding, artificial intelligence machine learning applications in the context of clinical development.
As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Plans and provides statistical consultation and mentorship in more than one area.Contributes to strategic goals of BDS through contributing to the statistical-methodological development and innovation. Influences and contributes to the alignment of the goals for BDS and other units at BI.
• Ensures cross-functional and team—based working within BDS and with other units at BI. Fulfills tasks of other functions as needed and possible. Contributes to cross-functional- and team-based thinking.
• Identify trends in data science and in particular statistics within and outside BI. Initiate and turn derived insights into new statistical approaches and ready-to-use toolkits relevant for clinical development, registration, and marketing of drugs. Promote broad usage of existing or newly developed innovative, complex statistical methods and mentor statisticians in applying them to their projects.
• At the request of statisticians in clinical development teams, provide technical and methodological consultancy to support projects and the therapeutic area as well as support the statisticians in justifying and defending new or complex statistical methods in interactions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Plans and conducts statistical trainings for statisticians and non-statisticians.
• Lead or participate in cross-functional BI internal working-groups or lead cross-functional human pharma internal working-groups and drive/plan relevant statistical aspects. Represents BI in or leads external communications and collaborations (e.g. across industry-working groups).
• Present compelling validated stories regarding complex statistical aspects to BDS colleagues and other professionals within and outside of BI.
• Collaborate with academic experts via initiation and supervision of PhD students in applied statistical methodology topics and represent BI Statistics in joint research proposals with industry and academia.
• If applicable, supports the clinical drug development process as a BDS Product Owner up to the therapeutic area level.
Requirements
Candidate will be hired into appropriate level based upon education and/or skill.
Senior Principal Requirements:
• Master of Science (MSc) or Doctoral Degree (PhD) from an accredited institution, in Statistics or Mathematics or related field (Psychology, Data Science, Finance, etc.).
• At least seven (7) years of experience as a statistician or data scientist in an area relevant for the specific role. However, working experience might be partially compensated by broad and deep topic-specific knowledge, e.g. with respect to statistical methodology.
Principal Requirements:
• Master of Science (MSc) or Doctoral Degree (PhD) from an accredited institution, in Statistics or Mathematics or related field (Psychology, Data Science, Finance, etc.).
• At least five (5) years of experience as a statistician or data scientist in an area relevant for the specific role. However, working experience might be partially compensated by broad and deep topic-specific knowledge, e.g. with respect to statistical methodology.
Additional Requirements:
• Statistical experience gai
Location: Ridgefield, CT
Posted: Aug. 16, 2024, 2:26 p.m.
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