Overview

If you are a current Jazz employee please apply via the Internal Career site.In order to make an application, simply read through the following job description and make sure to attach relevant documents.Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases - often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide. Please visit more information.Brief Description:The Senior Principal Statistician, Biostatistics will be a lead statistician on individual studies, across related studies, and for integrated summaries and will design and report Phase I to IV clinical studies and regulatory filings under the supervision of a more senior statistician. This role is responsible for all statistical aspects of study design, study analysis and validation, and study documentation. The Senior Principal Statistician will provide timely and scientifically sound statistical expertise to clinical development projects and develop and execute statistical strategy, design, and analyses for clinical trials. This position will work collaboratively with clinical development, pharmacology, pharmacovigilance, clinical drug supply, project management, regulatory affairs, medical writing, clinical data management, and clinical operations. The Senior Principal Statistician will manage work done by statistics and programming external vendors.Essential FunctionsParticipate in department and cross-functional meetings to optimize clinical study designs, endpoints, and analysis strategies in protocols.Collaborate with cross-functional team members to meet study any recurring report timelines.Support the development and implementation of study protocols.Review and provide input to data capture systems and participate in their validation.Develop statistical programs as necessary to simulate clinical trial design operating characteristics, perform analysis, prepare data displays, verify data accuracy and validity of analyses performed by statistical programming.Write statistical analysis plans, review statistical analysis plans written by other statisticians, perform and oversee data analysis and validation, and interpret analyses.Prepare for and attend meetings with regulatory agencies.Work with biostatistics compound/therapeutic area lead, peer management, and employees to develop, implement, and maintain department standards and practices.Review timelines and analysis plans for CRO work to ensure timeliness and quality deliveries.Review and validate CRO deliverables.Act as the statistical subject matter expert with medical writers and other colleagues in the production of clinical reports, integrated summaries, and other documents.Respond to statistical questions from regulatory agencies.Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Knowledge of clinical trial design and analysis, including experience with complex statistical methods and models, including statistical principles and methodology and principles of statistical inference, including hypothesis testing and deriving estimates, parametric and non-parametric models and techniques, principles of sample size calculations for comparing two arms, principles of design of experiments in introducing conditions designed to affect an outcome of interest, and phase II-IV clinical trial data analysis.Experience in using SAS and R; knowledge