Job Description

Role and Responsibilities:

We are seeking an experienced talented scientist to join the Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics – Immune/Oncology (QP2-IO) team in the role of Associate Director QP2-IO team is part of the Global Clinical Development organization and has oversight over drug development aspects related to clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics of oncology drugs from post-PCC to registration.

Associate Directors are emerging leaders in the field of quantitative drug development, with a developing understanding of the strategic elements of drug development and effective communication skills. As a subject matter expert, the Associate Director within the QP2-IO Group will work closely with teams of highly collaborative, cross-functional scientists to contribute to development of novel chemical entities. They develop strategies for quantitative analyses (and commensurate experiments/trials) within and across development programs and/or functions. They collaborate within QP2-IO and with other functional areas, as well as with external vendors and partners, creating an aligned, quantitative framework to impact strategies and decisions on drug development teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

Serving as an expert representative for QP2-IO on Oncology clinical development teams.

Framing critical questions for optimizing model-based analyses on programs.

Developing and executing model-based analyses including translational PK/PD approaches, population pharmacokinetic models, exposure-response models, clinical trial simulation, disease progression models, quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) modeling, comparator modeling, thereby strengthening pharmacometrics capabilities on a continuous basis in decision making and driving pipeline impact.

Strategizing and executing modeling of tumor size and survival endpoints including proportional hazards models.

Maintaining a comprehensive understanding of global regulatory expectations for small molecules and biologics in Oncology, authoring regulatory documents (investigational new drugs/INDs, clinical study reports (CSRs), clinical trial applications (CTDs)), and representing QP2-IO at regulatory meetings. 

Minimum education required:

Ph.D. with 1-3 years of pharmaceutical drug development experience relating to: PKPD, pharmacometrics, mathematics, statistics/ biostatistics, or chemical/biomedical engineering.

Masters or PharmD with 3-5 years of experience, where “experience” means having a record of increasing responsibility and independence in a similar role in pharmaceutical drug development.

Required Experience:

Demonstrated impactful experience with applications of pharmacometrics methods.

Skills in experimental design, mathematical problem solving, critical data analysis/interpretation, and statistics.

Proficiency in R, NONMEM or other similar programing language.

Professional working proficiency in written and verbal communication.

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