Statistical Specialist or Principal Statistician

at  Novo Nordisk

Statistical Specialist or Principal Statistician
Category: Clinical Development
Location:Aalborg, North Denmark Region, DK
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in a thriving, global environment that values your statistical expertise? With an expanding pipeline within cardiovascular and chronic kidney diseases we are looking for an experienced project statistician – that could be you!
We are searching in Denmark and Spain and for the right candidate we offer the opportunity to work mostly home-based from a European location.

THE POSITION

You will have a key role in one of our development projects focusing on clinical development of new products for the treatment of chronic kidney diseases. You will take active part in the scientific and strategic discussions and key responsibilities include:

• Represent Biostatistics independently in several cross-functional fora
• Proactively engage in scientific discussions and recommendations regarding innovative clinical trial designs, relevant data and endpoints, sample size considerations, and calculations
• Evaluating advanced statistical methodologies

In your daily work, you will collaborate with e.g. medical specialists, clinical pharmacology, pharmacometrics, market access, health technology assessment etc. It is therefore important that you clearly communicate statistical concepts and ideas to all our stakeholders.
You may also be directly involved in the clinical trial conduct of a larger outcome trial while mentoring less experienced colleagues and ensuring progress of the project. Within Biostatistics you will be working closely with the international project statistician who has the overall scientific responsibility for our deliverables.
If you are looking for a challenging role that offers opportunities to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment and be part of a large group of knowledgeable colleagues, this is the job for you!

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate should have:

• strong background in mathematics and statistics corresponding to PhD level
• +5 years of experience within clinical or biostatistical research

It will be a strong advantage if you have experience:

• within the field of chronic kidney diseases
• in a pharmaceutical company
• in project management and supervision of colleagues
• with R, SAS or other programming languages

On a personal level, you are open, curious, and solution oriented.

• Represent Biostatistics independently in several cross-functional fora
• Proactively engage in scientific discussions and recommendations regarding innovative clinical trial designs, relevant data and endpoints, sample size considerations, and calculations
• Evaluating advanced statistical methodologie