Requisition Number:                     19279
Job Title:                              Senior Statistician 
Position:                               Full-Time Regular 
Open Date:                              Aug 04
Functional Area:                                        Statistics 
Location:                               Ware, Hertfordshire 
Salary Low:                             £25,240 Per Year 
Salary High:                            £42,130 Per Year 
Required Degrees:                       Batchelors 
Experience Required:                    2 years 
Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus:   No 

"With 39,000 employees and sites in 41 countries supplying over 1,000 
products to 139 global markets, the scale of our manufacturing  and supply 
operation is immense.  Working in teams around the world to manufacture 
the quality medicines and consumer products on which GlaxoSmithKline 
patients and customers depend.

Our manufacturing and supply site at Ware is dedicated to introducing new 
respiratory and tablet products to the markets." 

We currently have an opportunity for a statistician to join our site wide 
data group in New Product Introduction. The individual will be required to 
provide an effective statistics service that supports the business by 
providing reliable and objective information about operating parameters 
throughout the business

Key objectives will be to:

·       Provide a proactive statistical data analysis service to the local 
Product Streams and support groups in the areas of process improvement, 
continuous improvement, New Product Introduction and customer/supplier 
relations within the framework of the business plan
·       Generate statistically based experiment designs and sampling 
schemes for efficient and effective data/information gathering programmes 
as part of the manufacturing process improvement, laboratory quality 
control, validation and qualification exercises.
·       Make recommendations from the statistical data analysis about 
decisions required in the areas of product release specifications, process 
control specifications and laboratory quality control to support 
requirements for inspection readiness, process improvement and customer 
satisfaction.
·       Support the wider use of statistics across all parts of the 
business by education and training.

The successful candidate will have:

Essential
·       A degree level qualification in a relevant subject 
·       Experience of applying data evaluation techniques ideally in a 
manufacturing environment
·       Excellent communication skills at all levels, to be able to 
explain statistical analyses to non statisticians.
·       Confidence to make technical decisions
Desirable
·       Experience in the application of Multivariate analysis within 
Process Analytical Technology
·       SAS
·       SIMCA-P

Additionally they will need to be:
·       self motivated and enjoy working independently and across 
functional boundaries 

If you would like to discuss the role informally, please contact Catherine 
Manktelow on 01920 864801 or Tracey Ramshaw on 01920 862484. To apply for 
this position please send your CV to [log in to unmask] or 
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Closing Date:           10 September 2004
Recruiter:              Recruitment GMS UK        Hiring Manager:      
Catherine Manktelow