**Who Are You?** As a Principal Statistician, you will be dedicated to one of our major Pharma clients, working as an extension of their staff to lead and support clinical trials for drug development, with the opportunity to leverage your experience in late-phase trials and regulatory submissions for Gastrointestinal studies. **Sponsor-dedicated:** Working fully embedded within one of our pharmaceutical clients, with the support of Cytel right behind you, you'll be at the heart of our client's innovation. As a Biostatistician you will be dedicated to one of our global pharmaceutical clients; a company that is driving the next generation of patient treatment, where individuals are empowered to work with autonomy and ownership. This is an exciting time to be a part of this new program. **Position Overview:** Our Principal Biostatisticians provide statistical and development support and influence for the associated client's trials providing expertise into processes, clinical development plans, concept sheets and protocols, as well as potentially providing oversight of work supported by other vendors. You will formulate integrated analytical approach to mine data sources, employ statistical methods, machine learning & deep learning algorithms to discover actionable insights and automate process for reducing effort and time for repeated use. **As a Principal Biostatistician, your responsibilities will include:** + Customer Segmentation & Targeting, Event Prediction, Propensity Modelling, Churn Modelling, Customer Lifetime Value Estimation, Forecasting, Recommender Systems, Marketing Mix Optimization, Price Optimization + Design, run and analyse A/B and multivariate hypothesis tests aimed at optimizing customer and patient experience. Also, pick up new skills and technologies necessary on the job. Articulate solutions/recommendations to business users. Works with senior data science team member to present analytical content concisely and effectively + Develop automation for repeatedly refreshing analysis and generating insights Collaborate with globally dispersed internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to solve critical business problems and deliver successfully on high visibility strategic initiatives + Project manage own tasks and works with allied team members; plans proactively, anticipates and actively manages change, sets stakeholder expectations as required Independently identifies research articles and reproduce/apply methodology to business problems **Here at Cytel we want our employees to succeed and we enable this success through consistent training, development and support. To be successful in this position you will have:** + Master’s degree in statistics or a related discipline. Ph.D. strongly desired. + 6+ years supporting clinical trials in the Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology industry. + At least 3 years of recent experience on late-phase (II & III) drug development including drafting SAPs/calculating sample size/reviewing TLFs + When in the lead role for a project: manage biostatisticians and statistical programmers with respect to statistical strategy, deliverables and processes. + Experience in Gastro-intestinal sutdies or submission is a plus + Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical industry and regulatory environment preferred + Strong SAS and/or R programming skills for QCing critical outputs, Efficacy/Safety tables, and working closely with Programmers. + Ability to work independently, demonstrate initiative and flexibility through effective and innovative leadership. + Attention to detail and quality focused, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, innovative, and collaborative behaviors + Team player: willingness to go the extra distance to get results, meet deadlines, etc.