Statistical Programmer Analyst
Greenford, UK
Requisition No.: 38552

Basic Qualifications    
- You will be a graduate with a honours degree or MSc (or equivalent) in 
statistics, computer science, or a related scientific or numerate subject
- Excellent SAS programming skills including Base SAS, SAS Macro, SAS 
Graph, including statistical analysis programming. Experience of SAS® is 
essential, however advanced SAS® or statistics training, if required, will 
be provided as well as specific clinical pharmacology area awareness.
- Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, and the reporting and analysis 
of clinical trials data 
- Good understanding of the drug development process.
- Demonstrated ability to work across international and functional 
boundaries. 
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
   
Preferred Qualifications 
- Knowledge of pharmacokinetic (PK) data, analysis and reporting of 
clinical trials would be an advantage. 
- Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle also an advantage.  

Details    
As one of the world's leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, it 
is GSK’s goal to enable people to do more, feel better and live longer. 
Much of our success is down to the spirit, innovation, passion and 
excellence of our people. With sites at Harlow, Essex and West London in 
the UK plus North Carolina and Philadelphia in the US, we can offer you a 
world of opportunity.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Statistical Programmer/Analyst within 
the Clinical Pharmacology Statistics & Programming (CPSP) Department based 
in Greenford, West London. As a key member of this international team, 
you'll be working alongside medical statisticians and data scientists, 
performing and co-ordinating analysis and reporting of clinical 
pharmacology trials data, together with associated regulatory submission 
work. Your main area of therapeutic focus will be Respiratory and 
Inflammation, but there will be opportunities to work on studies in a 
variety of areas.

In this role you will be expected to :
- Work within clinical project teams in the planning and reporting of 
statistical summaries and analyses. This may include creation of analysis-
ready datasets, including population PK datasets (these may be required 
for studies across all phases). 

- Act as a department point of contact for customers in Clinical 
Pharmacology, clinical study teams, and across other departments in 
Biomedical Data Sciences (BDS) and attend meetings with leaders within 
these groups as appropriate. Also act as study point of contact for study 
work contracted to CROs

- Use problem solving skills and an ability to think creatively to lead or 
contribute to local process improvement projects, and input into larger 
systems development projects managed by local technical groups and IT by 
helping to define detailed requirements and work with the team to achieve 
the most efficient and usable implementation of new systems.

- Work with staff in the other department locations in the UK and US, plus 
the UK outsourced operations to help review and prioritise workload. The 
variety of work undertaken by the team means that the successful applicant 
will have excellent workload management skills and be adaptable to 
changing priorities.

- Be able to act as a mentor for other colleagues and contract staff.

When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the on-line 
application to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as 
outlined in the job requirements above. Thank you for your interest in 
this opportunity. The information that you have provided in your cover 
letter will be used to assess your application. 

Closing Date for Applications: 1st December, 2006   

To Apply: 
At GlaxoSmithKline we provide a supportive working environment, and a 
range of development challenges and opportunities. We also offer 
competitive benefits and compensation packages designed to attract and to 
retain the very best.  For confidential consideration and efficient 
processing, please apply online via our career pages at www.gsk.com.  
Enter requisition number 38552 to be taken directly to this vacancy.