Senior Statistical Project Leader (Director) - all genders

About the job

Our Team:

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Join our Biostatistics Immunology & Inflammation as Senior Statistical Project Leader (Director) and you’ll provide statistical leadership, guidance, and strategic input for clinical studies in one or more project teams. You’ll have opportunities to develop innovative statistical solutions to support critical trial decision-making and advance treatment across all phases of drug development. Within our department of Evidence Generation and Decision Science, you’ll be supported by a Biostatistics group that fosters people development, offering compelling career opportunities that value diversity of thought and abilities, to optimize overall success and have a meaningful impact on patients’ lives.

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?

Main responsibilities:

• Expert level of statistical and scientific contribution to clinical development plans, studies and submissions activities (when applicable), and provide strategic statistical leadership for responsible projects.

• Lead Biostatistics employees and contractors transversally (or directly) working on the project(s), including working with team members and group head to establish, monitor and provide feedback on priorities and areas for development. 

• Plan, monitor and manage project activities, timelines, processes, and resources to ensure operational excellence and align practices in compliant with Sanofi SOPs and Biostatistics standards.

• Develop productive collaboration with other functions in the aligned project team, with other statistics project leaders, and in communicating with senior leadership.

• Mentor junior project team members and nurture a culture of productive teamwork, quality, operational efficiency, and innovation.

• Represent statistics in challenging regulatory meetings, key scientific or technology working groups or cross function initiatives.

About you

• PhD/MS in statistics or related discipline with typically at least 8 years of pharmaceutical experience in clinical development, including experience with Biotech, pharma, Clinical Research Organizations (CROs), health authorities and academic clinical research centers.

• Excellent understanding of clinical development; broad knowledge and good understanding of advanced statistical concepts and techniques.

• Proven successful experience in clinical development or post-marketing activities such as submissions, interactions with regulatory agencies or other external stakeholders.

• Demonstrated leadership and excellent interpersonal/communication, project management skills.

• Exhibited expertise to represent organizations in cross-company activities (e.g. consortiums or professional associations).

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.

• Play a critical role in accelerating Sanofi’s leadership in the flagship therapeutic area of Immunology & Inflammation

• Work closely with leaders and partners with diverse backgrounds, expertise and styles who are ready to help you succeed in the organization.

• Lead transformative initiatives, redefine best practices, and set new standards that will shape the future of the industry.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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