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2 Statistical Project Leaders - all genders

Berlin, Germany
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.

About the job

Provide leadership and guidance as the lead statistician on one or more project team(s), accountable for all methodological and statistical aspects of project(s) covering all of Sanofi's therapeutic areas (excluding oncology). Act as statistical consultant within company.   

Major Duties and Responsibilities

  • Be a key driver of international project teams to contribute to the early development (in terms of decision-making strategy, project management, submission dossier). 

  • With minimal direction from group head, direct statistical support and provide scientific leadership for responsible projects.  Accountable for statistical aspects of early development in the clinical development plans, studies and related submissions activities (when applicable), including quality, relevance to external stakeholders (e.g. regulatory authorities, medical journals), and scientific validity

  • Provide/develop statistical expertise within the team, department or cross-functions e.g.,  pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, precision medicine or biomarker teams).

  • Develop productive collaboration with other functions in the aligned study/project teams, with other statistics project leaders and in communicating with senior leadership.

  • Stay informed with data being generated in the current clinical development programs and by competitors.

  • Proactively make proposals to improve study designs, analyses and, more broadly, the efficiency and effectiveness of the department through continuous bibliographic monitoring.

  • Be accountable of high-quality contribution from study protocol to the clinical report.

  • Promote teamwork, innovation, quality, and operational efficiency. Ensure study/project teams compliance with SOPs and departmental standards.

  • Mentor people working on the project.  Promote teamwork, quality, operational efficiency, and innovation. Create productive work environment.  Ensure project team compliance with SOPs and departmental standards.

  • Plan and track project activities, timelines, and resource use.  Provide justification for planned resource needs.  Seek to optimize resource utilization thru efficient and well-managed resource allocation and across projects or areas.  Effectively utilize external groups, e.g. CROs or data monitoring committees (DMC). Capacity to respond to unscheduled increase in project workload.

  • Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior staff.

  • Represents statistics in regulatory meetings

  • Represent statistics to participate (and lead if applicable) in scientific or technology working groups or cross function initiatives; Contribute to operation process optimization and provide inputs to statistics standards.

About you

  • PhD/MS in statistics or related discipline with at least 6 years of pharmaceutical experience

  • Demonstrated strong  project/study management, interpersonal and communication skill; strong capacity for anticipation, organization and coordination; leadership, including supervision of contractors; ability to work as a team player and interact with all stakeholders.

  • Broad knowledge and good understanding of advanced statistical concepts and techniques, including Bayesian techniques. Ability to propose and promote innovation in clinical development plans and analyses.

  • Broad knowledge of pharmaceutical clinical development

  • Experience in the relevant therapeutic area desired

  • Autonomous in the management of activities; organized, able to efficiently manage multiple and variable deadlines. 

  • Ability to be flexible and adapt quickly to the changing needs of organization.

  • Ability to represent Sanofi in cross-company activities such a consortiums or professional associations

  • Experience in interactions with regulatory agencies or other external stakeholders

  • Oral and written fluently in English

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Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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