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An exciting journey lies ahead. Will you join us in pushing the boundaries of what's possible?

Senior or Principal Biostatistician: US, UK, Germany, or Belgium

UCB - Inspired by patients. Driven by science.

Help us transform patients' lives.

To strengthen our Statistical Sciences and Innovation Group, we are looking to fill the position of: Senior or Principal Biostatistician.

About the Role

You will be responsible for:

Clinical

• Acts as the lead biostatistician for one or more clinical studies within a clinical program or across multiple clinical programs.
• Gives input into the study design, efficacy and safety parameters and the planned statistical analyses. Performs simulations to support choice of study design, decision rules and the sample size. Participates in protocol development if this is not delegated to an external partner biostatistician. Reviews and approves the protocol prepared by the external partner biostatistician.
• Supports or overseas external partner biostatistical support for all statistical operational aspects of the clinical trial, covering trial set up, trial delivery and the readout of results. This includes input into randomization specifications, statistical analysis plans, interim analyses, safety reviews and final analyses.
• Communicates and coordinates all statistical activities with external partner biostatisticians. Ensuring the implementation of global, program and SSI standards by all biostatisticians contributing to the project.
• Provides input on interpretation of results by attending and presenting at the Results Interpretation Meeting (RIM). Reviews and inputs into the clinical study report.
• Assists the biostatistician lead for a program of studies with the statistical deliverables for regulatory submissions and the lifecycle of a development compound.
• Principal Biostatistician can serve as a biostatistician lead for a program of studies, as agreed to by their line manager.

About You

You should have:

• Solid working practice and experience in biostatistics within the Biotechnology and/or Pharmaceutical Industry or relevant academic role with proven successful track record in pharmaceutical development.
• Excellence in a variety of relevant statistical methodologies, including Bayesian approaches.
• Good knowledge of SAS and/or R programming.
• Excellent knowledge in visualization and simulation techniques.
• Able to work under pressure and without supervision.
• Able to drive and influence teams to ensure evidence-based decisions are made
• Able to provide training of statistical topics to biostatisticians and to explain statistics topics in a non-technical manner to non-statisticians.
• Able to adapt to change.
• Able to travel both, domestically and internationally, as business necessitates
• Contributes to an environment of mutual confidence and co-operation among the team and with the research and development partners.

About us.

UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 7,600 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

At UCB, everything we do start with a simple question: "How will this create value for people living with severe disease?". We are on a journey to become the patient-preferred biopharma leader by delivering medicines and solutions that improve lives. We want to ensure the creation of patient value, now and into the future, while contributing to a society where a population of 8 billion people and more should be able to live a good life within limited resources of one planet.

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UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity.