Director, Statistics - Statistical Innovation (Office-based)
About The Position
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. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok. AbbVie's Statistical Innovation team provide strategic and quantitative consulting/simulations to solve complex and non-standard problems in clinical development. The Director, Statistical Innovation is responsible for providing scientific and statistical leadership to lead or collaborate with other functions on important clinical development and Data Statistical Sciences (DSS) initiatives and projects, especially those using advanced statistical methodology, advanced predictive modeling and Machine Learning (ML).
Requirements
- Ph. D in statistics, biostatistics or related fields with at least 10 years of related work experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Proven ability to collaborate and consult with discipline experts and leaders within and across functions
- Passionate about modeling and simulation, innovation, always thinks out of the box and is never satisfied with the status quo
- Strong publication records highly desired
- Demonstrated expertise and experience in advanced statistical modeling and simulation
- Proficiency in development, implementation and rollout of statistical tools and techniques using R, R-shiny, Python, Julia etc. to operationalize key innovative methodologies
Responsibilities
- Lead and drive modeling and simulation capabilities in AbbVie statistical innovation group
- Leverage state of art modeling and simulation techniques to propose, evaluate and optimize clinical trial designs in terms of time, cost and probability of success.
- Collaborate with study teams and other functions to proactively evaluate population feasibility, IC/EC impact, patient diversity and other operational insights at the design stage
- Collaborate with study teams and other functions to proactively evaluate state-of-art scientific statistical designs using modeling and simulation
- Collaborate with Clinical Pharmacology on QSP and MIDD related activities
- Build and maintain external reputation and influences in the industry with presentations, invited talks and peer-reviewed publications
Benefits
- paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
- medical/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
- short-term incentive programs
- long-term incentive programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
