Medical Affairs Team Lead - Clinical Evidence and Statistics

Medical Affairs Team Lead
- Clinical Evidence and Statistics

Cambridge, UK

OGT is a leading global provider of clinical and diagnostic genomic solutions. We believe in creating products and partnerships that enable clinicians to deliver personalised healthcare to patients and that empower clinical researchers to develop the next generation of precision medicines.

An opportunity has arisen in our Cambridge based Medical Affairs team for a Medical Affairs Team Lead
- Clinical Evidence and Statistics. The Regulatory and Medical Affairs Directorate is responsible for ensuring that OGT’s products are safe, effective and fit for purpose, thus allowing them to be available globally and state of the art.

The Medical Affairs Team Lead
- Clinical Evidence & Statistics is responsible for leading the Clinical Evidence and Statistics function within Medical Affairs. The role provides oversight of clinical evidence generation, study design, statistical operations, data analysis, scientific reporting, and external clinical collaborations to support product development, regulatory submissions, post-market surveillance activities, and commercial objectives.

• Line management for Medical Affairs Scientists and Medical Affairs Analysts responsible for clinical evidence generation and statistics
• Set objectives, monitor performance, conduct performance reviews, and support professional development of team members
• Co-ordinate workload allocation and prioritisation across the Clinical Evidence and Statistics team
• Ensure team training, competency records and development plans are maintained
• Lead the planning, design, execution, analysis, and reporting of clinical evidence
• Provide expert input into study design, including protocol development, study objectives, endpoints, sample size considerations and statistical methodologies
• Develop plans to generate clinical evidence through clinical studies, literature reviews, external collaborations, and data acquisition
• Ensure studies are conducted in accordance with approved protocols, SOPs, GCP requirements and applicable regulations
• Support the generation of evidence required for new product development, product modifications and regulatory submissions
• Provide strategic scientific input into product development, regulatory submissions and market access initiatives
• Lead the development and review of study documentation
• Where applicable, ensure studies are executed according to approved protocols, timelines, SOPs and quality requirements
• Oversee study monitoring activities and site interactions where required
• Support audits and inspections relating to clinical evidence activities
• Act as subject matter expert for statistical methodologies and analysis
• Provide statistical guidance across Medical Affairs and other departments as required
• Develop and approve Statistical Analysis Plans
• Oversee statistical analyses performed by the Medical Affairs team
• Oversee study randomisation activities and statistical analysis methodologies
• Review and approve statistical outputs, reports, and conclusions
• Ensure appropriate statistical approaches are applied across all studies and evidence-generation activities
• Support development and maintenance of automated reporting and data analysis workflows, including R-based solutions where appropriate
• Drive continuous improvement of analytical and statistical processes, tools, and reporting methodologies
• Oversee the preparation, review and approval of evidence generation reports
• Ensure scientific accuracy, consistency and regulatory compliance of Medical Affairs outputs
• Contribute to Performance Evaluation Reports and Technical Documentation as required
• Establish and maintain productive relationships with external laboratories, clinicians,…