Consultant, Innovative Designs at Cytel

We are hiring a Consultant to join our Strategic Consulting Practice. As a seasoned Biostatistician, you will leverage and broaden Cytel’s reputation for thought leadership and innovative services by leading engagements for pharmaceutical, biotech and device clients, and building and maintaining successful long-term relationships with clients in collaboration with Cytel’s business developers and other personnel related to the account.  This includes developing and demonstrating thought leadership in statistical methodology for clinical development, ensuring that Cytel remains at the leading edge, and raising Cytel brand awareness and recognition throughout the industry. 

Specifically, we are looking for leaders with a strong foundation in statistics plus broad expertise and/or unique knowledge in related areas (adaptive designs, clinical development, data science, model-informed drug development), to provide strategic advice to define optimal regulatory, clinical and/or market access pathways and promote faster patient access to better health technologies.

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Accountable for executing of assigned projects on time and with expected quality.  Participate directly in development of the deliverables or completion of other project activities.
• As required, manage project team to ensure specified deliverables are developed and undergo appropriate review and sign off.
• Keep abreast with regulatory, reimbursement and other industry requirements and guidelines, including via active participation in scientific conferences and symposia.
• The position requires regular travel, substantial direct contact with senior management and executives at prospects and existing clients, and the ability to build and leverage strong interpersonal business relationships both internally and externally to Cytel.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Strong understanding of the biopharmaceutical R&D process in combination with solid business acumen and an appreciation of the broader business issues.
• Experience in translating complex methods and approaches internally and in client environments. Strong technical-writing, oral communication and presentation skills, excellent use of the English language.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, and the ability to execute in client situations at the tactical level.  For analytical roles, knowledge of relevant analytical packages is required (SAS, STATA, R, Python, C/C++).
• Comfortable presenting and interfacing with senior executives within the clients.
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with an understanding of the dynamics of high-growth companies; the ability to work effectively in a challenging and sometimes rapidly changing environment.
• Minimum of a Masters (PhD desirable) in Mathematics, Biostatistics, or a related field; MBA, MD, or advanced degree highly desirable; at least 5-10 years of experience in the consulting, clinical trials or health research environment.