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    Principal Statistician - United Kingdom - GlaxoSmithKline

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    Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
    Posted Date: Apr

    We are looking for a Clinical Biostatistician to join our Speciality and Primary Care Statistics team. Statisticians are highly prized and urgently needed at GSK to grow an industry-leading team who put quantitative rocket boosters under every project we touch and transform the pace, scale and success with which our company serves the patients who rely on us. We need exceptionally talented and committed Statisticians like you to apply your statistical skills and innovative statistical methodology to drive key contributions to the research and development of new medicines and vaccines in our three clinical areas: Oncology, Speciality and Primary Care (our non-oncology therapy areas) and Vaccines.

    Speciality and Primary Care Statistics is proud to support drug development efforts in Immunology, Hepatology, Gastro-intestinal, Renal, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, Infectious Diseases, HIV, and Global Health (which covers infectious diseases like malaria and TB that impact the developing world).

    Join our team of industry-leading statistician experts in data analysis and methodologic research in embedding quantitative decision-making to take smart risks and improve the probability of study and program success. Our end-to-end project support model ensures that our clinical statisticians collaborate across the entire range of clinical drug development, from early clinical development, to registration, approval, and marketed product support. We have individual contributor career opportunities across a range of experience levels from entry-level to industry-experienced biostatisticians.

    We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

    We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

    Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

    In this role you will

    • Provide statistical input to the design, analysis, reporting and interpretation of clinical studies.
    • Influence clinical development plans, regulatory and commercial strategies.
    • Build and maintain effective strategic working relationships with internal and external partners to meet business needs.
    • Identify, develop and implement novel statistical methodologies in support of medicines and vaccines development.
    • Have the opportunity to work across the entire range of drug development, from early clinical development, to registration and marketed product support due to our end-to-end project support model.

    Why you?

    Qualifications & Skills:

    We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

    • MSc (or equivalent) in statistics or related field
    • Practical understanding of statistical modelling and its application to real world clinical problems.
    • Relevant experience as a statistician in a clinical trial setting in the Pharmaceutical Industry
    • Track record of strong performance as a biostatistician in an academic or industry setting.
    • Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team setting.
    • Strong time management and prioritization skills.
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with;
    • Capability in building and maintaining strong working relationships in a team setting

    Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

    If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

    • Experience with Bayesian methods
    • Therapy area expertise, depending on role
    • Capable of applying innovative statistical thinking
    • Demonstrated ability to explain novel and standard methods to scientific and clinical colleagues.
    • Strong influencing skills applied effectively across functions and levels of an organization
    • Track record of strong statistical contributions and accomplishments in clinical drug development, with a broad knowledge of all phases of drug development (pre-clinical; Phase I-IV).
    • Experience of working with and coordinating the work of CROs.

    Closing Date for Applications: Monday 13th May 2024 (COB)

    Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
    When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

    During the course of your application, you will be requested to complete voluntary information which will be used in monitoring the effectiveness of our equality and diversity policies. Your information will be treated as confidential and will not be used in any part of the selection process. If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application / selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements, please contact This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process.

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    Why GSK?

    Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

    GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

    Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

    As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

    We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

    Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on or

    Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a UK Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link and scroll to the Careers Section where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive .

    As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it.Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

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    GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

    Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK's Transparency Reporting For the Record site.

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