Principal Statistician - Medical & Market Access Statistics

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Medical & Market Access Principal Statistician

GSK Oncology has a commitment to the discovery and development of new oncology therapies with the life-changing potential of helping patients with cancer, specifically in four areas of cancer research: Cancer Epigenetics, Immuno-Oncology, Oncology Cell & Gene Therapy and Synthetic Lethality. 

We need exceptionally talented and committed Statisticians to apply quantitative skills and innovative statistical methodology to drive key contributions in the marketed product support of new medicines in the fight against cancer.  You will provide global statistical support in non-registrational data generation, secondary publications and scientific congress support, and ISR review to support delivery of clearly differentiated medicines to our patients.  You will also collaborate with R&D, medical and commercial organizations as well as Value Evidence & Outcomes teams to deliver a diverse stream of work to support evidence generation for market access of GSK marketed oncology products and late-stage pipeline assets. Join our team of industry leading experts in data analysis and methodologic research. Our end-to-end project support model ensures that our Statisticians have opportunities to collaborate across the entire range of drug development, from early clinical development to registration and marketed product support. 

In this role you will…

• Provide statistical input for the design, analysis, reporting, and interpretation of non-registrational studies.
• Shape clinical development plans, HTA strategies, and commercial approaches.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders to address business needs.
• Develop and implement novel statistical methods to tackle complex challenges.
• Address market access and reimbursement challenges from regional agencies by collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Work with Health Outcomes and Market Access teams to analyze and interpret clinical trials and real-world data, while expanding expertise beyond traditional statistics.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• MSc or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics or equivalent with relevant experience in clinical research, pharmaceutical, CRO, or academic settings.
• Proven statistical contributions and accomplishments in late-phase clinical drug development.
• Good statistics programming skills and experience in R and/or python.
• Self-motivated with strong time management skills to manage multiple tasks effectively across projects.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain methods to senior stakeholders, and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.
• Experience successfully influencing across functions and organizational levels.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Proven statistical contributions in medical affairs and market access for marketed products, including HTA assessment.
• Experience in oncology
• Demonstrated leadership and major contributions to organizational or industry-wide initiatives
• Ability to apply innovative statistical thinking
• Strong relationship-building and teamwork skills
• Experience coordinating work with CROs

Closing Date for Applications – 7th May

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• If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $126,225 to $210,375. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

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

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.

We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

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