Senior Statistician II

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At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe. Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects. Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevent The Senior Statistician II has sufficient experience working as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry to be working independently on activities relating to design, delivery and interpretation, preclinical studies, regulatory submissions and/or commercialisation. This individual is able to perform and communicate results of more technical analyses, and able to guide less experienced staff. They have the scope to develop creative statistical ideas and approaches, and to apply them in their work. Competent individual contributor with excellent cross-functional collaboration. Typical Accountabilities: The Senior Statistician II may work directly within a project and/or support statistical methodological advances. The accountabilities for supporting projects directly are: • Provide statistical expertise for complex design and interpretation for preclinical or clinical programmes, high level internal governance committees, regulatory submissions and/or commercialisation. • Analyse internal and external information, perform modelling and simulation to inform design decisions and the development of decision criteria. • Develop a Statistical Analysis plan for complex studies and/or project deliveries. • Act as a coach/guide for less experienced statisticians in the production of analysis, supporting graphics and analysis tables for study reports, Global Medical Affairs studies or publications. • Able to analyse, interpret, summarise and communicate results of complex studies. • Contribute to the regulatory submissions including specification of overview documents and response to regulatory questions. • Identify opportunities for the application of modelling and simulation to improve study design. • Identify opportunities to improve the methodology and provide practical solutions for problems. • Identify and apply statistical methodology to improve the process and delivery activities. • Contribute to the development of best practice to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness. • Accountable for the quality of their statistical work; provide discipline-specific understanding, insight and constructive challenge and take ownership of development needs, seek coaching or training opportunities The accountabilities for supporting statistical methodological advances are: • Under guidance of a more experienced statistician, produces pragmatic solutions, often within a tight time scale where the emphasis is to deliver first, then refine and develop solutions thereafter. • Draft statistical analysis plans for complex studies. • Provide consultancy within area of expertise to fellow statisticians working within therapeutically aligned statistics groups, as well as medi

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