Analytics Programming Team Lead

Job title: Analytics Programming Team Lead

• Location:IN / Hyderabad

About the job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As Analytics programming Team Lead Support a team of R Clinical Analytics Specialist overseeing staff performance, provide technical and operational leadership and ensure timely project development, maintenance, testing, deployment, and documentation.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Major Responsibilities:

• knowledge of clinical drug development, statistics and statistical reporting added to your hands-on technical expertise of R and its packages, will help you successfully deliver cutting edge Shiny application to support modern drug development programs. You will contribute to multiple projects aimed at improving the efficiency, and quality of our trials from design to statistical reporting, data exploration and interactive visualization.

• Provide team and project leadership, management, and technical guidance to ensure high quality and timely application releases that meet technical validity, regulatory requirements, and industry standards, via effective collaboration with peers, stakeholders and partners across the organization and geographical locations.

• Lead and contribute to the development, maintenance, testing, deployment, and support of multiple innovative R Shiny applications and packages independently or in collaboration with ART team members, statistical programmers, and biostatisticians. Ensure appropriate technical documentation, support, and training is available to the target user community of each application.

• Support department initiatives and task forces. Lead/participate in departmental or cross-functional working groups and process improvement activities. Collaborate with IT and Quality Assurance for the deployment in production of Shiny applications on premise or in the cloud (when appropriate).

• Plan and track R package/R Shiny project activities, assignments, timelines, and resource use; optimize resource utilization across projects and respond to unscheduled changes in project workload with solutions.

• Manage team members priorities, performance review and development areas; promote teamwork, quality, operational efficiency, and innovation. Contribute to the team’s recruitment activities, mentor junior staff members on agile R Shiny applications and packages development, and project management.

About you

• Experience:  Programming experience preferably in processing clinical trial data in the pharmaceutical industry or CRO and experience in R and Shiny programming.

• Soft skills: Experience in project leadership, project management, interpersonal skills.

• Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical clinical development and regulatory submission process

• Technical skills: Demonstrated experience with agile software development methodologies and project management tools (e.g., Jira), version control systems (e.g., Git), and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.

• Education: Bachelor or Master of Science degree or equivalent in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Life Science or related field

• Languages: Highly effective communication in English, both oral and written.

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

• Build, develop and manage a statistics team support multiple TAs and different clinical phases

• Develop a career of being an influential statistician

• Gain international clinical trial experiences and communicate with Health Authorities worldwide