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This is what you will do :

The Director of Statistical Programming will be primarily responsible for overseeing statistical programming activities for multiple clinical studies within multiple Therapeutic Areas, maintaining programming infrastructure and ensuring compliance with SOPs to produce quality and timely deliverables. He / she must possess extensive experience and proven skills in the use of SAS within a Statistical Programming environment and complete knowledge and understanding of the statistical programming processes, procedures, and roles. He / she will use knowledge of CDISC SDTM and ADaM standards to support Biostatistics in statistical analysis, including generating analysis data listings, tables, and figures and create all files necessary to support an electronic submission in the eCTD format. Additionally, the successful candidate will use his / her strong people management skills and supervisory skills to provide direct line management to statistical programmers and external partners, identify training needs and opportunities for optimizing staff utilization and employing the most efficient practices. He / she must be able to identify project resource requirement needs and manage large external provider contract budgets. He / she may be responsible for the direct-line management of the statistical programmers through Associate Director level staff. You will be responsible for :

• Serve as the Lead Programmer and Manager of the statistical programming efforts for a compound / indication.
• Develop and validate technical programming specifications for analysis datasets using Alexion or ADaM standards.
• Independently develop and validate programs that generate analysis datasets based on Alexion or ADaM specifications.
• Develop and validate technical programming specifications for protocol specific efficacy tables, listings, figures / graphs.
• Independently develop and validate programs that generate protocol specific efficacy tables, listings, figures / graphs using Alexion specifications.
• Ensuring that the filing of study documentation is maintained to the standard required according to processes and acceptable for audit.
• Provide secondary reviews of Statistical Programming deliverables.
• Directly support the Statistical Programming Sr. Director in all aspects of the management and development of the Statistical Programming team.
• Participate in the ongoing review of the processes used by the Statistical Programming group to ensure processes are continually complied with and updated as necessary.
• Create and / or review programming plans and ensure appropriate resource allocation and prioritization.
• Act as the primary department contact, when necessary, to ensure that department standards are implemented in all studies.
• Manage adherence to all company policies, SOPs, and other controlled documents; and ensure all programming activities adhere to departmental standards.
• Assume direct line management responsibility of the statistical programmers, conducting performance reviews, setting and regularly reviewing objectives, providing guidance and mentoring, and developing and regularly reviewing training and career development plans.
• Plan and manage department budget. Forecast quarter, annual, and 3-5 year budget. Participate in strategic development meetings across departments.
• Evaluate, develop, revise, implement and ensure compliance to functional guidelines, policies, and SOPs.
• Collaborate across all functional areas to ensure programming needs are met with specific regards to study data specifications, applications and computing environment support.
• Collaborate closely with Biostatistics, Clinical Data Management, Pharmacovigilance, Clinical Operations, and other functions within Alexion to address their needs for programming support.
• Collaborate closely with Preferred Vendor management in terms of governance, recruiting needs, contract development and signature, and any other partnership requirement that may arise.
• Any other activities as required.
• Any other activities as required.

The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office‑based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to : use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; problem solve; engage in complex and non‑linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours. You will need to have :

We would prefer for you to have :

Competencies

Date Posted

02-Dec-2025

Closing Date

08-Jan-2026

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