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 Senior Scientist, Biostatistics - USA

JOB SUMMARY 

Location: West Point, Pennsylvania, United States Of America

Job Type:  Full Time

Employee Status: Regular

Relocation: No relocation

VISA Sponsorship: No

Travel Requirements: No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements: Telecommuting

Shift: 1st - Day

Valid Driving License: No

Hazardous Material(s): n/a

Requisition ID:R252609

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Job Description

• Provide statistical solutions to drug / vaccine research and development (R&D) projects.
• Ensure that sound scientific principles and statistical methods are applied to designing and analyzing non-clinical and clinical studies.
• Interact with people with diverse background and expertise, including research scientists, clinical scientists, regulatory experts, IT specialists, and their teams in MRL.
• Serve as statistical representative in the cross-functional teams for product discovery and development.
• Ensure that study designs are consistent with program objectives and meet worldwide regulatory and marketing needs.
• Identify technical or other potential problems arising in the design, conduct, and analysis of non-clinical or clinical studies, propose solutions and carry them out.
• Identify opportunities to add value to drug / vaccine discovery and development programs. Analyze data and interpret results from non-clinical or clinical studies.
• Apply and implement basic and complex statistical techniques to these analyses.
• Orally present and prepare written reports to effectively communicate analysis results to audience with diverse background and expertise.
• Provide responses to queries relating to study design, analysis, and interpretation posed by the research scientists, clinical scientists, and regulatory agencies.
• Participate in research activities for innovative statistical methods.

Education Minimum Requirements:

● Must possess a Ph.D. (or its US equivalent) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Data Science or related disciplines or a Master’s degree (or its US equivalent) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Data Science or related disciplines with a minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience.

● Solid knowledge of statistical principles and methodologies and strong oral and written communication skills are required.

● Must possess demonstrated strong programming skills, especially in R language; interest in statistical methodology research and in application of novel methods to real-world problems; and ability to learn, be proactive and motivated, and consistently focus on details and prompt execution.

● Ability to function well both independently and collaboratively and ability to collaborate with scientists and work on multidisciplinary teams also required.

● Telecommuting permitted. 

● 40 hours per week: M-F: 9am-5pm. 

● Must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders).  

Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. 

Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Effective September 5,2023 our U.S. Hybrid work model will be as follows: 1. Three total days on site per week: Tuesday and Wednesday – plus one additional day of choice based on what works best for organizations and/or teams. 2. Fridays will formally be a remote-working day unless business critical tasks require onsite presence.

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company.  No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. 

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