Biostatistics Senior Manager, Biosimilars US- Remote

Career CategoryMedical AffairsJob DescriptionJoin Amgen’s Mission of Serving PatientsAt Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.Biostatistics Senior Manager, Biosimilars US- RemoteLet’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead a single large product, and/or more complex studies and/or projects, ensures that all statistical aspects of documentation pertaining to clinical activities meet required standards and are statistically correct, influences and contributes to the development strategy, and defends statistical approaches internally and externally.ResponsibilitiesImplements, oversees and supports standards, technical quality and consistent approaches in strategy, study design and statistical analysis.Plans and executes statistical contributions to protocols, randomization specifications, Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), Table, Listing and Graph ( TLG) shells, Submission Data File (SDF) specifications, other key-study related documentation, protocol deviations, Flash Memos, Clinical Study Reports (CSRs), and other communications in close partnership with CROs in a full-service CRO model.Provides statistical inputs to clinical publications, Clinical Summary of Safety (CSSs), Clinical Summary of Efficacy (CSEs), Clinical Overviews (COs), and regulatory documents.Oversees statistical work performed by CROs in a full-service CRO model.Performs statistical analysis of multiple studies/projects and subsequent exploratory analyses, and makes sound conclusions and recommendations.Represents the Biostatistics function and participates in multidisciplinary project team meetings; collaborates closely with other functional team members; incorporates knowledge of cross-functional areas to inform and provide sound statistical guidance to teams (e.g. provides support and input in case report form design, and data collection).Proactively anticipates and communicates resource and quality issues that may impact deliverables or timelines within functional area as well as cross-functionally.Be familiar with statistical policy and strategy at Amgen; having working knowledge of theoretical and applied statistics and of regulatory guidelines and industry practice on biosimilar development.Stays abreast of latest developments in the field of statistics in drug development and contributes to scientific advances by publishing applied research in scientific journals and books and presenting statistical methodology at internal or external scientific meetings.Participates in the review of CRO Policies, SOPs and other controlled document development, and in the development and review of Amgen-CRO’s process maps; contributes to process improvement and operational efficiency.Adheres to all Amgen Policies, Standard operation procedures (SOPs) and other standards which are applicable to biosimilar development.What we expect of youWe are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a Biostatistics Senior Manager, with these qualifications.Basic Qualifications Doctorate degree and 2 years of Biostatistics experience ORMaster’s degree and 6 years of Biostatistics experience ORBachelor’s degree and 8 years of Biostatistics experiencePreferred QualificationsMasters degree in Statistics/Biostatistics or other subject with high statistical content, and 8 years of post-graduate statistical experience in the pharmaceutical industry or medical researchOrDoctoral degree in Statistics/Biostatistics or other subject with high statistical content, and 5 years of post-graduate statistical experience in the pharmaceutical industry or medical researchKnowledge/experience of biosimilars development, non-inferiority or equivalence trialsStatistical contributions to regulatory submissionsExperience in statistical methodologies related to adaptive designs (e.g., group sequential design, adaptations to treatment arm selection design, Bayesian adaptive design) and/or combin