Pietro Bonanno – SEC PHARMA – LONDON 020-72556665

 

 

 

 

Good afternoon all;

 

Urgently required CVs. Start date ASAP. JD below.

 

Functional Title: Contract SAS Programmer

Reports to: Programming Team Leader

Division: Product Development

Basic Function:

The SAS Programmer provides statistical software and software documentation support to biometrics in general and to specific clinical projects. He/She takes responsibility for the planning, development, validation, documentation and maintenance of SAS code to support project work.

 Principle functional responsibilities:

Statistical Software Standards

• Develops and documents statistical programming standards in accordance with current statistical programming practices and regulatory authority requirements.
• Programs, validates and documents software in SAS following statistical programming standards and ensures its availability to users. Whenever creating new software, ensures the efficient use of existing software.

 Drug development

• Ensures that programming activities performed within the project are executed in a timely manner and to the required high reporting standards.
• Interacts with other members of Biometric Team to clarify programming requirements and to give advice on the availability of standard programs and the cost/effectiveness of developing new project macros.
• Assists in the development of trial protocols, trial analyses, editing procedures and data presentations relating to efficacy and safety data and evaluability under the direction of the responsible project statistician.
• Creates the datasets specification according to the global standard in cooperation with clinical programming.
• Provides SAS datasets in the format required for special evaluations.
• Programs, validates and documents data tabulations, graphics and statistical evaluations for efficacy and safety. Ensures that programs developed for specific projects/protocols are sufficiently portable to allow application to other projects and protocols.
• Performs analyses of efficacy and safety data, generates tabulations and graphs and provides them to members of the Biostatistics Team.
• Maintains up-to-date project documentation including that of presentation, analysis and graphics software.
• Verifies adherence to PDBP validation processes/SOPs within the project.

 The statements made in the job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. These statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of people assigned to this job.

Qualifications and experiences:

• BSc, MSc or PhD (or equivalent) in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or other analytical field.
• Experience within the pharmaceutical industry drug development using SAS
• Good knowledge of international clinical research and drug development.
• Confident in the use of Computers; can readily learn new software applications
• Experience in programming and using statistical software as well as knowledge of databases and interface systems. Very good knowledge of SAS.
• Able to communicate in English.

  

Interpersonal Skills:

• Communicates clearly and effectively in written reports, data presentations and meetings as required.
• Establishes and maintains good working relationships; is co-operative. Takes cultural and value differences into account in dealings with others.

 

Pietro Bonanno – SEC PHARMA - LONDON