Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eClinical Solutions helps life sciences organizations accelerate clinical development initiatives with expert data services. The Principal Biostatistician will provide high-level consulting services for statistical analysis and programming, ensuring that all client work meets or exceeds expectations while collaborating with various teams to support trial progression and regulatory reviews.
Responsibilities
• Provide consulting of statistics activities related to clinical trials. Fulfill the responsibilities of study statistician as required
• Provide mentoring and QC of statistical programmer’s outputs; define analysis data specifications. If required, validate the statistical models used for programming
• Act as study statistician - interact with client and with clinical team including programmers, clinical data managers, clinical protocol manager, and other relevant personnel. Ensure that programmers get correct specifications and data at appropriate time
• Develop, review, and finalize the statistical analysis plan
• Validate the programming deliverables and collaborate with applicable team members to rectify any issues related to statistical reporting and analysis
• Develop randomization schedule, specifications, and guidelines
• Wherever applicable, provide input in finalization of study specific data quality control plan and ensure appropriate data analysis and reporting
• Wherever applicable, develop, validate and finalize the study specific list of table and table shells for clinical study reports and for study specific deliverables
• Ensure that all comments from the clinical team with regards to statistical report delivered for study specific deliverables are being addressed appropriately
• Analyze the data and contribute to trial progression related decisions by providing necessary input during trial specific deliverables including but not limited to blinded data reviews, and interim analyses
• Collaborate with team members for regulatory reviews, representations, and supporting data analyses including the study or compound level exploratory analyses, ad-hoc analyses, and post- hoc analyses
• Develop SAS programs to generate analysis datasets, and trial specific reporting including but not limited to tables, listings, graphs, queries, and patient profile reports
• Ensure compliance with eClinical Solutions and industry quality standards, guidelines and procedures
• Other duties as assigned
Skills
• Excellent knowledge of English
• Strong experience with clinical study design development, analysis, and sample size determination
• Experience with development of randomization schedule including development of IVRS specifications, and guidelines for appropriate usage of randomization schedule
• Strong knowledge of ICH guidelines and other guidelines such as GCP, and 21 CFR Part 11 from different regulatory agencies including FDA, and EMEA
• Experience in developing statistical analyses reports, and in conducting statistical analyses and reporting for various trial level deliverables including but not limited to blinded data reviews, interim analyses
• Knowledge of coding dictionaries (WHO, COSTART, ICD-9, MedDRA) and clinical reporting processes
• Knowledge of CDISC® related data models such as SDTM, and ADAM. Ability to develop ADAM model for analysis and reporting of clinical trial. Through understanding of SDTM data structures
• Ability and experience of delegating tasks and leading projects. Experience of working on multiple clinical protocols at the same time
• Ability to balance conflicting priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Detail oriented, ability to multitask with strong prioritization, planning and organization skills
• Excellent team player
• Experience of statistical procedures and latest developments and trends in statistical analysis methodologies. Knowledge of working in different therapeutic areas and related indications
• Strong knowledge of statistical programming and ability to use various software systems like SAS, SPSS, and S-Plus. Ability to do statistical computing using R is a plus
• Knowledge and ability to use various tools like J-Review, and Spotfire for effective data queries and analysis
• Strong experience in various SAS software modules including SAS/STAT, and SAS/Graph
• Thorough understanding of developing macros and SAS system
• Thorough knowledge of design of experiments and statistical modeling. Experience of developing statistical designs for phase-I, phase-II, and phase-III clinical protocols
• Experience of pooled data analysis and in designing specifications for integrating data from multiple trials
• Knowledge of Analysis dataset model for development of analysis and programming specifications is a plus. Ability to develop ADAM models based on trial data
• Thorough knowledge of analysis of various standard and non-standard safety domains. Knowledge of PK data modeling is a plus
• Strong experience in efficacy reporting with regards to development of analysis sets, and treating missing values
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications
• Master in Statistics, Biostatistics, or equivalent work experience preferred
• SAS® certification is preferred
• 5+ years in Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology industry or equivalent statistical consulting and SAS programming role preferred
Company Overview
• eClinical Solutions is a data intelligence hub.it transforms the way clinical data integration, aggregation, and analytics. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.eclinicalsol.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• eClinical Solutions has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2025, 7 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 5 in 2022, 5 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.