Assoc Director, Statistical Programming

Novartis • East Hanover, NJ

19d • $145,600 - $270,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is based in East Hanover, USA. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role. Please only apply if this location is accessible for you. Step into a high-impact leadership role where your expertise will shape the future of drug development. As Associate Director Statistical Programming, you will lead a high-performing community of programmers, driving innovation, quality, and efficiency across complex clinical programs. You’ll play a critical role in delivering timely, high-quality insights that enable life-changing treatments to reach patients faster—while empowering teams, advancing technology adoption, and influencing global strategy across Novartis.

Requirements

• University or college degree in life science, computer science, data science, pharmacy, statistics, nursing or equivalent relevant degree.
• Proven leadership, collaboration and organizational skills with demonstrated ability to successfully manage simultaneous trials and meet deadlines
• Excellent understanding of clinical trials methodology, GCP and medical terminology
• Must be able to anticipate challenges and risks and proactively suggest/implement solutions
• Ability to work under pressure demonstrating agility through effective and innovative team leadership
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to operate effectively in a global environment. Foster a team environment that values learning, adaptability, and continuous improvement. Ability to influence and communicate across functions and to external stakeholders
• Experience in Drug Development with experience in Statistical Programming
• Management or leadership experience

Responsibilities

• Lead statistical programming activities as a Lead/Program Programmer for a large-sized or complex project or group of projects globally or locally, or disease area with phase I to IV clinical studies in Novartis Global Drug Development.
• Co-ordinate activities of programmers either internally or externally. Make statistical programming decisions and propose strategies at project or disease level. Develop statistical programming strategy and scientific documentation for the project(s) or disease area together with the Biostatistician(s). Accountable for the assignment of resources and workload within his/her TA community and ensures sharing of resources between groups in order to meet company objectives and priorities.
• May act as functional manager of local/global associates including providing supervision and advice to these programmers on functional expertise and processes.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional teams including Biostatistics and Data Management counterparts, able to summarize and discuss status of deliverables and critical programming aspects, such as,timelines, scope, and resource planning. SP representative at project level and in the Submission team, or in local leadership team.
• Develop programming strategy to drive standardization across studies or programs and effectively adopt R packages (e.g. Tidyverse), R Shiny Applications, AI-enabled tools etc. to support data visualization, version control (e.g. Git-based), and reproducible workflows. Partner with the functional mentors to support capability development, appropriate tool adoption, and alignment with standards and business needs.
• Accountable for timely and quality development and validation of all statistical programming components on assigned project(s). Responsible for quality control and audit readiness of all assigned statistical programming deliverables as well as accuracy and reliability of statistical analysis results.
• Provide authoritative technical and professional recommendations as representative of the statistical programming function at project level or for a major non-clinical initiative.

Benefits

• health, life and disability benefits
• a 401(k) with company contribution and match
• performance-based cash incentive
• eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards
• generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree