CSL

Director, Statistical Programming Lead

Americas, US-PA, King of Prussia, CSL Behring Full time

CSL is transforming its R&D organization to accelerate innovation and create greater impact for patients. With a streamlined, project-led structure and a focus on collaboration, we're building a future-ready team that excels in dynamic biotech ecosystems. Joining CSL now means being part of an agile team committed to developing therapies that make a meaningful difference worldwide.

Could you be our next Director Statistical Programming Lead ? The job is in our King of Prussia, PA office. This is a hybrid position and is onsite three days a week. You will report to the Senior Director Programming.

You will provide leadership and expertise in driving the development and maintenance of the CSL statistical programming capabilities which is required to meet regulatory obligations. Manages a team of programmers supporting clinical trial and integrated analyses, annual reporing, regulatory responses, publications, HTA requests and other purposes as needed within one or more therapeutic areas.

You will work closely with the Senior Director, Clinical and Statistical Programming to advance the internal programming environment and statistical programming processes. Works closely with Statisticians to ensure that deliverables provided by internal resources or outside providers (CROs; FSP providers) are accurate and aligned with CSL standards.

Main Responsibilities:

Working with the Biometrics Programming Leadership team, assess upcoming activities and resulting resource needs and allocate projects to people to ensure high quality, timely, delivery.  Ensure realistic resource planning.

Oversee the CRO delivery or manage the in-house programming of data sets, outputs, and DDT files of clinical trials and integrated analysis.

Coordinating the oversight or in-house programming of exploratory analyses, analyses to support secondary publications, response to regulatory requests, or other adhoc requests.

Manages, hires, and mentors direct reports including annual evaluations and goal setting.

As a member of the programming leadership team within biometrics, creates, maintains ensures compliance with programming process and strategy to facilitate accurate and timely analysis programming.

Help bring state of the art programming methods and tools to the organization and drive automation of delivery, including AI.

Qualifications and Experience Requirements:

  • BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related area with relevant experience 

  • At least 15 years of experience in the biotech, pharma, or CRO industries 

  • Preferred 5 or more years of direct supervisory experience 

  • Experience with CRO management and/or CRO work experience 

  • Extensive understanding of clinical programming and/or statistical programming processes and standards

  • Advanced Experiences with statistical programming using the SAS software including development and use of SAS Macros, preferred managing team performing these activities as well

  • Advanced knowledge in CDISC standards (CDASH, SDTM, ADaM)

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    About CSL Behring

    CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

    CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

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