Graduate Statisticians, GlaxoSmithKline (Greenford or Harlow)

Exciting Opportunities for Graduate Statisticians to influence development 
of New Medicines

Minimum Requirements:
• You will be currently completing a statistics MSc or PhD degree 
and have the ability to apply statistical knowledge and logical thinking 
to practical situations
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well in a team
• Ability to make well thought-out and efficient decisions based on 
pertinent facts.
In addition, experience of SAS would be an advantage (SAS training as well 
as training in advanced statistics will be offered).

Job Details 
You’d expect a global pharmaceutical company like GlaxoSmithKline to 
develop products that define the cutting-edge of today’s healthcare 
practice.  So it’s no surprise that for our statisticians, the prospects 
are equally promising.

Our Biomedical Data Sciences division is the largest within the 
pharmaceutical industry, and includes statistics groups covering non-
clinical areas, clinical drug development in a wide range of therapeutic 
areas and a methodological research team.

Exciting opportunities have now arisen in the UK Clinical Pharmacology, 
Clinical and Non-Clinical areas for new and recently qualified 
Statisticians.  Working closely with clinical or scientific colleagues, 
you will:
• Apply your statistical knowledge in the design and analysis of 
studies to discover and demonstrate the effectiveness, safety and quality 
of new medicines
• Prepare and conduct analyses and reports for internal and 
regulatory purposes, as well as contributing to external presentations and 
papers for publication
• Be part of a team of more experienced statisticians, with whom you 
will rapidly develop your statistical knowledge and expertise
• Have  opportunities to work within the broader therapeutic teams, 
which focus on drug development strategy, alongside data managers, 
clinical scientists, marketing professionals and epidemiologists, or to 
work within programme matrix teams in early discovery, alongside 
biologists and chemists
• Have opportunities to work in partnership with scientists working 
at the cutting edge of technology, providing statistical insight which 
creates greater understanding and improved data-driven decision making.

We offer competitive salaries, benefits, training and development, and are 
committed to the continuous development of your technical skills and 
competencies.  Opportunities are available at our sites in Stevenage, 
Ware, Greenford and Harlow.

For confidential consideration: please apply online at 
www.gsk.com/careers/university_uk_frame.htm, entering Req ID 29326.  If a 
disability prevents you from getting online, please call the GSK response 
centre on 02080474777 between 13.00-01.00, who’ll do everything they can 
to help.  The closing date for applications is 1st March 2006.  We 
anticipate holding interviews on the 28th March 2005.  Interviews will 
include both technical questions and competency questions.  Awareness of 
the applications of statistics in the pharmaceutical drug development 
process will be expected.
In order to ensure your application is considered fairly, answer all the 
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Please copy and paste your CV in the box headed ‘C.V / Resume’.  

For a full listing of current opportunities, please visit our website at 
www.gsk.com.

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