Associate Director, Exploratory Statistics (Hybrid)

Associate Director of Exploratory Statistics

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

**This is a hybrid on-site position. Candidates must be local to San Francisco, CA or Lake County, IL.

The Associate Director of Exploratory Statistics provides statistical leadership in drug discovery and non-clinical and clinical biomarker activities to support target identification/verification, characterizing subgroups of patients or markers of disease progression and treatment response and patient selection or stratification to advance precision medicine. The associate director role collaborates with discovery researchers, translational scientists and clinicians in the design, collection, analysis and reporting of multi-dimensional biomarker data from Discovery to late-stage clinical development to enable objective decision-making for each clinical program in the responsible therapeutic area.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead statistical support for clinical biomarker programs through own efforts or those of the team. Provide expertise/Lead statistical strategies in one or more therapeutic areas for Discovery, Translational Science and Biomarker projects to advance precision medicine.
• Train and mentor staff on statistical methodology and scientific interpretations. May supervise contract statisticians or junior statisticians. Develop strategy for building data analysis pipelines, statistical evaluation and interpretation of large and complex data sets in various stages of the responsible therapeutic areas. Identify and implement effective data analysis, computational or modeling techniques for interpreting discovery and biomarker data.
• Plan and track project activities, timelines, and resource utilization. Drive for timely and high-quality deliverables. Assist in recruiting qualified personnel and arranging training opportunities for professional development of staff.
• Maintain awareness of advanced exploratory statistical analysis technology, industry practices/standards and regulatory requirements and communicate within and outside team.
• Providing leadership in designing, analyzing and reporting of biomarker-based clinical trials or other scientific research studies. Independently developing or providing guidance to develop biomarker section of clinical trial protocols or biomarker analysis plans. Work independently or provide guidance to Implement sound statistical methodology in scientific investigations.
• Represent function/department on project team(s) to provide statistical input to biomarker discovery/development and drive alignment with functional management. Partner with other functions to create strategies for assigned projects.
• Maintain an external presence within the statistics community by representing AbbVie on advanced and emerging topics. Attend key conferences and workshops in support of the presentation of company data, and the evaluation of scientific data presented across industry and academia.

Qualifications

• PhD in statistics or related field with 6+ years of experience or Master in statistics or related field with 10+ of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
• Demonstrated expertise in advanced statistical/quantitative methods (e.g. adaptive designs, Bayesian methods, optimization, machine learning, modeling, multiplicity, subgroup identification, precision medicine etc.).
• Able to build strong relationship with peers and cross-functional partners to achieve higher performance. Highly motivated to drive innovation by raising the bar and challenging the status quo.
• Pharmaceutical or related industry knowledge required, including experience and understanding of drug development and life-cycle management in the regulated environment.

Additional Information

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.