Assoc Dir, Statistical Prog

Job Description

Description

Assoc Dir, Statistical Prog

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.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

- 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.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

1. Line management of regional and local staff including: performance management, progressive discipline, and training need identification. Recommends courses of action on salary administration, transfers, new hires,
terminations, and professional development. Regularly communicates with staff on working practices, policies, and work instructions.
2. Meets with subordinate managers routinely to evaluate and develop solutions for project resourcing, quality, timlines, budget, standard processes, and training needs. Keeps senior management informed of decisions and issues which impact the department.
3. Ensures that the regional Statistical Programming departments meet timelines, provide high quality deliverables, comply with contractual project requirements, and conduct projects within budget.
4. Assigns programmers to projects in a manner which keeps associates at their utilization goal and which matches associates to projects appropriate to their skills, training and experience, while also providing opportunities to
work with varied projects, sponsors, and teams.
5. Prioritizes activities across Statistical Programming projects and facilitates mutually beneficial resolutions to project conflicts between groups or individuals which promotes teamwork and quickly restores department
effectiveness.
6. Responsible for staff development to facilitate succession planning and maintaining a programming staff with diverse skills, abilities, and competencies meeting the business needs of Statistical Programming.
7. Sets challenging, achievable goals for associates which contribute to department objectives supports efforts to achieve those goals. Provides motivating, timely performance feedback to associates on a routine basis as well as for formal performance appraisals.
8. Assists programmers in solving technical problems with effective, cost-efficient resolutions.
9. Assists and supports Statistical Programming business development efforts by contributing to requests for information and requests for proposal, and participates at bid defense meetings as requested.

Other Responsibilities:

Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).

Requirements:

12+ Years of experience into Statistical Programming with expertise into ADAM, TFL's & SDTM.
Should have 2 to 3 years of people management experience, managing 30 to 40 FTEs.
Should have managed Client engagement & escalations management.
Qualification: BS, MS, or equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field. Extensive experience in SAS programming in a clinical trial setting or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated managerial leadership ability.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Summary

Summary: Manages, supervises, and mentor managers and other programming personnel within Statistical Programming departments regionally. Coordinates the interface between Statistical Programming, Biostatistics, Clinical Data Management, Database Programming, IT, and other functional units regarding programming services. Works cooperatively with other Biostatistics personnel, specifically other Statistical Programming managers and directors, to establish Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) promoting standardized and consistent operating procedures and to maximize the efficiency of the Statistical Programming department. Interacts with clients as needed for project and/or relationship management.

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