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I have been asked to forward this to the list. Please reply to the details given and not to me. >Principal Statistician - South East c£50,000+Benefits+Bonus > >Our client, a FTSE 100 company based in the South East, seeks to appoint a >Principal Statistician to supply a specialist consultancy service for >their Data Sciences Team and to provide statistical support to teams >across the company. > >Job Purpose > >As Principal Statistician you will: > > · Act as a statistical consultant to the lab, providing > expert and professional advice in the areas of experimental design, data > analysis and data presentation. > · Manage the interaction between Data Sciences and a key > department that provides the majority of the funding for the Data > Sciences Group. > · Alongside the Data Sciences Group leader, maintain and > develop the professional and technical skills of the other Statisticians. > >Summary of Requirements of the Role > > · Deliver quality work in a timely manner to satisfaction > of customers; nurturing customer relationships. > · Gain an understanding of customer science programmes and > adopt a pro-active approach in seeking opportunities to contribute. > · Enhance the reputation of the Data Sciences group through > effective presentations and publications. > · Maintain an awareness of developments in external > statistics world. > · Identify new opportunities for Data Sciences within the > laboratory and contribute to securing new resources. > · Improve the statistical literacy of the laboratory. > · Maintain accurate documentation of work completed. > >Core Responsibilities > > · Act as a statistical consultant to the company primarily > as the main point of contact for a specific group. > · Work together with the group's scientists on project > teams, providing high-level advice on all statistical issues from design > to analysis, reporting and presentation of results. > · Develop an understanding of the group's science areas in > order to maximise the relevance of statistical advice. > > · Liaise with programme managers to maximise the > contribution of the Data Sciences Group statistics to their programme > outputs and deliverables. > · Actively develop the statistical knowledge and skills of > the other group members, providing answers to questions and help > investigating problems for other members of the Data Science Group. > · Promote the profile of statistics in the company by > maintaining and developing links with the statistics community outside > the company, e.g. by publishing and presenting at external meetings. > · Raise understanding and awareness of the benefits of > statistics to the site, by identifying areas where statistics has made or > could make an improvement to specific projects. > · Maintain an awareness of new developments or novel > applications of statistics and continually seek to exploit these in the > research programme. > >Particular areas currently requiring support are: > >Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic modelling: building an expertise in >PBPK modelling and developing the use of the techniques in that group and >the facilitating external collaborations. > >Systems biology approaches to risk assessment: building models at a >cellular and physiological level, collaborating with external and internal >groups. Modelling of genomics, proteomics and metabonomics data. > >Building models that combine information from different areas (e.g. >genomics, proteomics and metabonomics data). > >Making models more probabilistic for exposure and hazard and combining >these for risk assessment. > >Introducing improved models for an automated product approval system. >Defining how to model mixtures of ingredients and provide a probabilistic >assessment of the safety. > >Person Specification > >As Principal Statistician you should possess: > > · At least 5 years experience of applying statistics, SAS > skills and statistical consultancy experience in a pharmaceutical, > healthcare, consumer goods or in an academic environment. > · Strong communication skills, together with the ability to > support, direct and lead business units. > · Effective influencing skills, together with the ability > to give strategic input to senior members of the company and promote the > profile of statistics throughout the business. > >To Apply: > >If you would like to be considered for this role, please contact Adam Isle >or Alison Fisher in confidence at Hudson Shribman on +44 (0) 207 269 0900, >or reply via email to [log in to unmask]