Principal Biostatistician - Future Roles (UK)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do.

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serves as a statistical department resource, mentors biostatisticians on job skills, oversees or develops training plans or materials for Biostatistics associates.
• Conducts training sessions, or otherwise trains new hires and enhances the skills of existing personnel.
• Prepares Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), including development of well‑presented mock‑up displays for tables, listings, and figures.
• Collaborates with sponsor, if required.
• Responsible for the statistical aspects of the protocol, generation of randomization schedule, and input to the clinical study report.
• Reviews SAS annotated case report forms (CRFs), SAS database design, and other study documentation to ensure protocol criteria are met and all data is captured as required to support a high quality database and the planned analysis.
• Creates or reviews programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures.
• Directs the activities of other biostatistics personnel on assigned projects to ensure timely completion of high quality work.
• Provides independent review of project work produced by other statisticians in the department.
• Implements company objectives, and creates alternative solutions to address business and operational challenges.
• Serves as biostatistics representative on project teams, interfacing as necessary with other departmental project team representatives.
• Conducts and participates in verification and quality control of project deliverables, ensuring that output meets the expected results and is consistent with analysis described in SAP and specifications.
• Manages scheduling and time constraints across multiple projects, sets goals based on priorities from management, discusses time estimates for completion of study related activities with biostatistics management, adapts to timeline or priority changes by reorganizing daily workload, and proactively communicates to biostatistics management any difficulties with meeting these timelines.
• Monitors progress on study activities against agreed upon milestones and ensures the study timelines for project deliverables are met.
• Identifies out of scope tasks and escalates to management.
• Provides statistical programming support as needed.
• May participate in Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) and/or Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) activities, including charter development and serving as an independent non‑voting biostatistician.
• Leads projects involving integrated analyses, attends regulatory agency meetings or responds to questions, as needed, to support the statistical analysis results of clinical trials on behalf of the sponsor.
• Maintains well organized, complete, and up‑to‑date project documentation, and verification/quality control documents and programs; ensuring inspection readiness.
• Displays willingness to work with others and assists with projects and initiatives as necessary to meet the needs of the business.
• Supports business development activities by contributing to proposals, budgets, and attending sponsor bid defense meetings.
• Performs other work‑related duties as assigned.

Minimal travel may be required.

This position is responsible for leading projects across multiple studies or programs. A Principal Biostatistician acts as the primary contact with the sponsor for all biostatistics related activities on assigned projects. Provides external statistical consultancy for sponsor companies, and serves as a departmental resource for complex statistical questions, study design considerations, and protocol development.