Director, Pharmacometrics

About Certara

Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.

Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry's use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.

In the past 6 years, over 90% of companies that received new drug approvals by the FDA used our software or services. Our integrated and proprietary end-to-end platform with biosimulation, regulatory science, and market access solutions combined with our strong team of scientists and subject matter experts enable our clients to have:

• Informed decision-making & reduced clinical trial burden
• Higher R&D productivity
• Improved patient outcomes & increased patient access to medicines
• Accelerated regulatory approval

Our Pharmacometricians are responsible for supporting quantitative decision-making in drug development through the development and application of population PK, PK/PD, exposure-response and other models. Qualified candidates will have the ability to work on a variety of therapeutic indications and data types and must be experts in applied Population PK, PK/PD, and/or exposure-response modelling and simulation to support drug development.

We are looking for Pharmacometricians that want to:

• Deepen their strategic drug development expertise and their experience informing drug development decisions.
• Hone their pharmacometric techniques with fit-for-purpose modelling approaches leveraging e.g. model-based meta-analysis, target-mediated drug disposition models, and E-R trial-simulations.
• Broaden their drug development expertise by working with a myriad of companies, molecular modalities, and therapeutic areas.
• Develop their consulting career path by recognizing and seeking opportunities that match their ambition and personal interests.
• Support projects for Certara's clients by working in teams with other Associates, senior expert modelers, and drug development consultants.
• Hands on pharmacometric modeling on client projects as a billable consultant.
• Conduct quality control activities on model codes and reports.
• May lead/coordinate company initiatives (e.g. IT, methodology, efficiency, automation, quality).
• May act as the primary point of contact for clients and collaborate with a senior consultant to grow business to match their interests.

• PhD, MD, PharmD in Bioengineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacology, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Medicine, or related field.
• 8-10 years modelling experience. 
• Industry consulting experience (may be combined with academic research) working in R&D, pre-clinical and clinical environments.
• Solid experience in pharmacometrics, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, or a related discipline in a project team setting is preferred, whether in academia or industry.
• Expertise in PK/PD modelling with strong quantitative skills applied to develop models with nonlinear behavior, mechanistic or semi-mechanistic components relating to mechanism of action and tailored to meet specific drug-development questions.
• Proficiency in PK/PD and statistical software (e.g., NONMEM, R).
• Proficient in modeling (e.g., popPK and PK/PD analyses, model-based meta- analysis, dose-response and exposure-response analyses, dataset creation, disease modeling, trial simulation, optimal study designs, strategic decision analyses, economic modeling).
• Experience in moving compounds through the clinical trials process and experience with various elements of clinical development and trial design and management and filings preferred.

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.