The Senior SAS Programmer role focusses on providing project and technical support in the preparation and review of high quality programming deliverables and documentation, as well as the processes and standards required, to both colleagues and clients.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver excellent customer care in support of genuine value and a great customer experience
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the external regulatory environment relating to programming, including ICH/GCP requirements, and provide advice and educate colleagues (and clients) on changes to regulatory requirements and/or other guidelines relating to programming
- Provide high quality deliverables and appropriate communication within expected timelines and budget
- Provide mentoring, as required
- Lead teams, when required
- Work with different functions, and across sites as required
- Review and provide comments on clinical documents, e.g. protocol, CRF and SAP
- Perform Peer Review and Final Inspection
- Represent the company at external conferences and forums, from a clinical programming perspective
- Participate in meetings such as recruitment, business development and audits from a clinical programming perspective
- Deliver consistently high quality output in a timely manner
- Provide leadership within the function on programming standards, processes, and procedures, as well as to other Quanticate functions and externally to clients
- Develop and deliver SAS training and workshops and other programming related training sessions, as applicable
- Plan resource requirements and project timelines, and recognise project training needs
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Determine and enforce the appropriate standards for projects
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Pro-actively address changing timelines, priorities and resourcing requirements in line with appropriate issue escalation processes
Qualifications:
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent, preferably in a numerate discipline
- Understanding of basic statistics
- Strong programming experience, preferably within the pharmaceutical industry or medical sector
- Knowledge and experience on pharmaceutical industry and requirements for delivery of clinical trials
- Programming experience covering activities from study set-up to final reporting
- Should have PC skills, excellent knowledge of statistical software packages (particularly SAS), excellent organisational skills, excellent communication skills (oral and written), and excellent analytical skills
- Has a proven ability to work with teams
- Has continuous improvement mentality and an excellent attention to detail