Manager, Methodology Statistican

Manager - Methodology Statistician

Act as an in-house specialist in applying statistical methodology and innovation in Kite Pharma's Clinical Statistics and Translational Medicine; develop innovative, efficient statistical methods for ready-to-use application in Kite's studies and projects.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Identify and evaluate innovative statistical methods for efficient clinical trial design and analysis (clinical study and translational research) and transform promising methods into ready-to-use toolkits.

• Promote broad usage of innovative, complex statistical methods and mentor other statisticians and functions in applying them to their projects; provide training, consultancy and perform prototype usage of complex or innovative methods

• Lead the collaboration with academia and attract talents in applied statistical methodology topics

Requirements:

• PhD of Statistics with 2 to 4 years of post-school experience, as a statistician in clinical development in Pharma/CRO or as a researcher in an academic institute with a focus on clinical trial methodologies

• Excellent scientific background and capability in understanding innovative, complex statistical methodology and concepts

• Excellent technical expertise in SAS and/or R with a proven track record in extending and implementing statistical concepts into ready-to use software.

• Ability to communicate, challenge and extend complex methodological topics and interact with other statisticians on statistical-methodological issues for pivotal trials or complex projects

• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to interact effectively with people, internally and externally

• Expert knowledge in one or more of the following methodological areas: survival analysis, missing value handling, dose finding, event projection, Bayesian statistics, subgroup identification and machine learning.

• Fluency in written and spoken English with excellent presentation and teaching skills

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Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.

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