Director Biostats

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The RWE Director is a key member of cross‑functional teams and RWE‑CoE within GBDS. This role will be responsible for developing the strategic direction and leading execution of statistical and real‑world evidence studies and initiatives. This key position involves providing expertise in statistical methodologies, study design using real‑world data to facilitate and support development and regulatory interactions of pharmaceutical products. This position is also responsible for performing the curation, transformation, and analysis of complex healthcare datasets to inform evidence generation, supporting developing clinical program design, clinical trial execution, and other data‑driven decision‑making activities.

• Independently leads, initiates, and oversees the statistical support of RWE studies, including the development of methodologies, data analysis, interpretation, and reporting of study results.
• Independently leads curation and assessment of the quality of RWD assets to ensure their suitability and understanding for intended use.
• Leads the design and implementation of data pipelines to transform raw RWD into datasets ready for analysis.
• Leads and oversees exploratory data analyses, identify patient cohorts, and perform data summary analytics to support real‑world evidence (RWE) generation.
• Continually expands technical knowledge of statistical considerations in real‑world evidence generation to ensure high‑quality study design and analysis.
• Collaborates with cross‑functional teams – including TA‑Biostatistics, Data Science, HEOR, Epidemiology/Safety, Clinical, and IT – to define data requirements and analytical strategies.
• Ensures all work complies with data governance, privacy, and regulatory standards.
• Stays up to date with industry and regulatory trends, tools, and best practices in RWD/RWE analytics.
• Enhances understanding of the drug development process, as well as regulatory and commercial requirements.
• Represents BMS at professional societies, and in industry‑wide technical discussions.
• Contributes to the statistical community of practice.
• Provides active coaching to RWE team members when developing solutions to problems.
• Enables a culture of inclusiveness, respect for diversity, and compliance with process.

• PhD (9+ years' experience) or MS (11+ years' experience) Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Data Science, Health Informatics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working with real‑world healthcare data (claims, EMR, registries, etc.).
• 6+ years of experience in pharmaceutical industry (e.g. Pharma, CRO, Biotech) and clinical trials.
• Proficiency in SAS, R, Python, or similar tools for data manipulation and analysis. AI/ML knowledge is a plus.
• Extensive experience with RWD data curation, engineering, exploration, and quality control in…