Site Name: China - Shanghai - PuDong New District - Lane 999 Huanke Road - Building18, Japan - Tokyo - Akasaka
Posted Date: Apr 10 2025
Job Purpose
China and Japan play a critical role in the growth and success of the GSK organization. The creation of Asia Development organization provides an opportunity for the integrated and disease-aligned biostatistics team to achieve synergies through collective expertise/capabilities for Asia, in advocating and implementing innovative statistical approach. This new job description reflects renewed accountabilities required to meet the needs in leading biostatistics for a therapeutic area (Oncology) in Asia. This new role is created with the primary accountability of the therapeutic area oversight and leadership (Oncology) in Asia Development Biostatistics. This role is expected to strengthen the biostatistics therapeutic knowledge, technical capabilities and execution excellence; and to deliver the biostatistics and programming components on target to meet/exceed the Upper Quartile objective and the accelerate access of innovative medicines and vaccines in Asia.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and manage a high-performing team of statisticians from Japan and China, and manage change with a keen sense of cultural awareness
- Set and lead the Asia biostatistical strategy and technical expertise in a therapeutic area, including opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement
- Develop in-depth clinical and statistical knowledge in a specific therapeutic area across assets and countries
- Partner with the global and regional cross-functional counterparts to understand and align the strategic objectives and ensure high quality execution of all trial analyses and submissions
- Influence planning and decision-making strategy over a portfolio of assets through building and maintaining effective business relationships with key functions
- Drive the quantitative decision-making principles/process to inform smart risk-taking drug development in Asia
- Contribute to and influence the strategic direction of the asset development in Asia and regulatory submission via rigorous and robust statistical knowledge
- Ensure state-of-the-art expertise on all methodological aspects of drug development in statistics
- Serve as a member of the Asia Development Biostatistics Leadership Team
- Represent GSK Asia Development Biostatistics at scientific meetings and proactively engage the external working groups to advocate for and trailblaze statistical methodology with the industry and regulatory agencies
Basic Qualifications:
- PhD (preferred) or Master’s Degree in Statistics or closely related field
- 10+ years experience in the field of drug development
- 5+ years experience as a people leader
- Knowledge/understanding of drug development process
Preferred Experience or Qualifications:
- Experience of working as a project lead statistician in a pharmaceutical or biotech company in Asia
- Experience in regulatory interactions and well versed in regional regulations
- Demonstrated ability to influence management, stakeholders, and staff to adapt to positive change.
- Experience in line management of staff.
- Broad understanding of external landscape with respect to role and its related functions
- Experience in leading teams and business improvement efforts with positive results.
- Demonstrated digital fluency and experience in applying creative thinking/business analysis skills to improve or solve business problems.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in building, managing and leveraging networks/client relationships internally
- Excellent knowledge of programming languages, SAS and/or R
- Ability to manage conflicting demands and priorities and to negotiate successfully
- Effective Project Management skills or relevant experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage the outsourcing or externalization of statistical tasks
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Encourages the “one team” spirit in all circumstances to be able to solve technical, expertise or organizational issues
- Good communication and influencing skills, curiosity, passion for patients
- Knowledge and work experience in a specific therapeutic area (Oncology)
- Business Acumen - understands implications of decisions from a broad business perspective and uses this knowledge to influence decision-making in Asia Development.
- Demonstrates leadership in the application of innovative approaches with portfolio-level impact. Works to move the Asia Development statistics organization to a leadership position in the industry both regionally and globally.
- A strong sense of initiative, urgency, drive, pragmatism and judgement – overall an ability to make things happen.
- Proven ability to deliver to demanding deadlines whilst maintaining the highest quality.
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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