Principal Biostatistician

**Principal Biostatistician - Spain**:
Novo Nordisk has a broad and expanding pipeline and we are therefore looking for experienced and strategic statisticians, at Specialist and Principal level, to help us reach our goals of ensuring our portfolio to change lives for a greater number of people living with serious chronic diseases. If you can see yourself working in a comprehensive, engaging, and global environment where you can use your statistical expertise and quality mindset to bring clinical projects to registration and market then continue reading.

**The position**

As a statistical expert you will be accountable for providing statistical input to project development plans, trial designs, clinical trial protocols, briefing packages to authorities and to engage in dialogue with regulatory authorities. These responsibilities could be within biologics, new chemical entities, or new technology platforms such as as gene editing, stem cells and RNAi dependent on the therapeutic area.

You will present results and contribute to the discussion and interpretation of the results both internally and externally. You will handle many assignments concurrently and will work in close partnership with a team of highly skilled Statisticians and Statistical Programmers. Coaching of less experienced colleagues is a natural part of the job and we expect you to be able to communicate statistical problems and ideas clearly to both statistical colleagues as well as stakeholders from other functional areas.

We are highly dependent on the drive of our employees to experiment, innovate and simplify on our transformational journey with 5D patient-solution focus and new treatment platforms such as gene editing, stem cells and RNAi. We therefore expect you to take part in some of the many initiatives that take place throughout the organisation for us to reach our goals.

**Qualifications**

As a minimum you meet the following requirements:

- 5 years of experience within clinical or bio-statistical research
- Act as driver and leading member of the project teams you are part of
- Independently and proactively set direction
- Flexible and positive mindset.

It will be a strong advantage if you have:

- PhD in Statistics (or other relevant area)
- Experience from a pharmaceutical company or other global organisation
- Experience from project management and supervision of colleagues
- Experience with SAS, R, or other programming languages

**About the department**

In Biostatistics we are approximately 250 statisticians and statistical programmers around the globe, organised in departments supporting our development projects (e.g., Diabetes, Obesity, Haemophilia, and other serious chronic diseases). Primarily we perform our statistical work in-house, thus we offer a wide variety of statistical tasks and challenges and provide a strong scientific community. We maintain a positive and collaborative atmosphere in our everyday work and ensure a healthy work-life balance with focus on individual development opportunities and wishes.

Being based in our Spanish affiliate and with direct reporting line to one of our Biostatistics sites in Denmark, you will have the best of two worlds. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, being part of a global team while having the chance to interact and collaborate with our local Spanish teams.

**Contact**

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.