Why Patients Need You

Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best in class medicines to patients around the world.

Pfizer Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidenced based, medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.

What You Will Achieve

Pfizer’s Non-Clinical Statistics is looking for a motivated statistician with a background in nonclinical statistics, strong consulting skills, and an interest in collaborating with research scientists in drug discovery and development. You will work closely with research scientists seeking to discover new medicines in a variety of therapeutic areas by supporting the design and analysis of preclinical experiments covering all aspects of drug discovery from disease target identification, pharmacology studies, animal model development, biomarker development and demonstration of proof of concept. The focus will be on both “platform” approaches (i.e. ensuring robust assay methods) as well as specific project approaches. You will have a genuine interest in understanding drug target biology in order to provide effective statistical consultation with biological scientists.

How You Will Achieve It

• Collaborate with vaccine assay specialists to support vaccine clinical and diagnostic assay development, qualification, and validation

• Collaborate with vaccine preclinical scientists to support vaccine preclinical and nonclinical development

• Ensure statistical rigor and good scientific practices are followed, excellent statistical methods utilized, and documented in protocols, analysis plans and manuscripts

• Provide statistical expertise to regulatory submissions and ensure quality and appropriateness of submission deliverables

• Bring innovative statistical thinking and methods to maximize the value of aggregate clinical and preclinical data in support of scientific and vaccine development strategies

• Serve as a core member of scientific teams responsible for determining strategy and delivering results in a timely and high quality manner

• Where possible, standardize processes and methodologies, may include developing statistical tools to aid scientists in standardized analyses

• Use statistical expertise to prepare both internal and external reports, presentations and manuscripts, with the aim to improve the quality of internal decision making and increase our influence on the external environment

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Master’s degree in Statistics/Biostatistics

• At least 3+ years of pharmaceutical experience

• Some pre-clinical and non-clinical experience is required

• Must have technical competence, including statistical computing

• Sound understanding of design of experiments, assay development, and statistical applications for preclinical research

• Knowledge of drug development regulations pertinent to statistical analysis

• Experience collaborating 1:1 with scientists and/or non-statisticians

• Statistical knowledge through coursework and/or demonstrated statistical application in general linear models, mixed models, non-linear models, experimental design, variance components, and quality control

• Computational skills in R and SAS

Nice-to-Have

• PhD in Statistics/Biostatistics or relevant discipline 

• Assay validation experience, particularly clinical assays, is highly desired

• Vaccine development experience is highly desired

• Works well in a team that has clear objectives and a functional working relationship between all members

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with research scientists are essential

• Demonstrated ability to create computational tools for data visualization

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a part of a team. Strong communication skills and the ability to write technical reports

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to perform mathematical calculations and ability to perform complex data analysis

Relocation support available

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,900.00 to $166,500.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 15.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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