Senior Scientist, Biostatistics

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · San Diego, CA +1

Senior Scientist, Biostatistics at Johnson & Johnson supporting the Oncology Therapeutic Area. Responsibilities include providing statistical input for drug development, designing clinical studies, authoring analysis plans, conducting analyses, and contributing to clinical study reports. Requires a Ph.D. or Master's with experience in Statistics and proficiency in SAS and R.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide statistical input into the clinical development of drugs for treatment of cancer.
  2. Work with the clinical team in designing clinical studies, leading/authoring the statistical analysis plan, conducting the statistical analysis, and providing statistical input to the clinical study report.
  3. Provide input in the preparation of scientific presentations and manuscripts.
  4. Participate in process improvement, training, standards development and enhancing statistical technical expertise.
  5. Liaise with other statisticians within the organization, building working relationships with therapeutic area leaders, internal SAS programmers, clinical trial managers, and personnel from regulatory affairs, medical writing, and other disciplines as needed.

Skills

Required

  • Ph D in Statistics or related field, OR a Master’s Degree with at least six (6) years of clinical data analysis experience
  • Working knowledge of statistical software such as SAS and R
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including formal presentation skills
  • Excellent analytical skills

Nice to have

  • Experience and knowledge of Good Clinical Practices and regulatory requirements for clinical drug development, including the conduct of clinical trials
  • Experience presenting to technical and lay groups at public meetings
  • Experience working in the area of Oncology

What the JD emphasized

  • Good Clinical Practices
  • regulatory requirements