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Principal Statistician
USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Are you looking for an opportunity to collaborate with top scientists to advance exciting, innovative ideas in drug development and manufacturing? If so, this Principal Statistician role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.
GSK is a science-led global healthcare company dedicated to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. To advance GSK's development of new medicines, we seek smart, creative people who enjoy solving challenging problems and want to improve the lives of millions of people.
Our team (CMC Statistics) collaborates with top scientists to advance exciting, innovative ideas in drug development and manufacturing. Our work is varied and challenging with the common goal to advance the science of human health.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
Design experiments, analyze data, and visualize results for projects that range from small studies with single endpoints to high-dimensional data.
Use traditional statistical methods and modern machine learning to develop new technologies and optimize and understand processes and methods.
Consulting with and training our partners in Medicinal Science and Technology (MST) in statistical best practices for quantitative decision making.
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Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Master's or PhD degree in statistics, biostatistics or a closely related field
3-5 years of experience with Master's degree, 0-1 year of experience with PhD.
Demonstrated technical and communication skills
Desire to continually develop statistical and scientific knowledge
Ability to develop practical solutions and apply statistical techniques in creative ways.
Demonstrated ability to be innovative, pragmatic, and flexible, thriving in a dynamic, collegial environment with frequent new challenges and excellent opportunities to develop and succeed.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Strong academic record
Excellent oral and written English communication skills
Ability
To apply statistical skills accurately to practical problems
To collaborate well with statisticians and scientists from other disciplines
To explain novel and standard statistical methods clearly to scientific colleagues
To identify existing or develop new statistical methods to improve the design, analysis, and interpretation of scientific studies
To evaluate, recommend, and implement statistical tools for addressing scientific problems
To learn new statistics skills quickly and independently
Motivated to continue learning new statistical skills and to solve challenging problems in drug development
Practical understanding of at least some of the following statistics topics:
Experimental design, mixed models, Bayesian methods, linear and nonlinear regression, analysis of high-dimensional data, variance component, statistical process control, repeated measure analysis, nonparametric methods, and simulations,
Demonstrated experience utilizing appropriate statistical software, including SAS, R/SPlus, Design Expert, Statistica, SIMCA, and JMP.
Why GSK?
Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.
These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:
Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
Managing individual and team performance.
Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution. Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.
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Vaneeta Kaur Grover
vkgrover@yahoo.comCell: 302-650-6557
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