Sr. Principal Analyst, Statistical Programming

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At Neurocrine Biosciences, we pride ourselves on having a strong, inclusive, and positive culture based on our shared purpose and values. We know what it takes to be great, and we are as passionate about our people as we are about our purpose - to relieve suffering for people with great needs.

Neurocrine Biosciences is a leading neuroscience-focused, biopharmaceutical company with a simple purpose: to relieve suffering for people with great needs. We are dedicated to discovering and developing life‑changing treatments for patients with under‑addressed neurological, neuroendocrine and neuropsychiatric disorders. The company's diverse portfolio includes FDA‑approved treatments for tardive dyskinesia, chorea associated with Huntington's disease, classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia, endometriosis
* and uterine fibroids, as well as a robust pipeline including multiple compounds in mid‑to‑late‑phase clinical development across our core therapeutic areas. For three decades, we have applied our unique insight into neuroscience and the interconnections between brain and body systems to treat complex conditions. We relentlessly pursue medicines to ease the burden of debilitating diseases and disorders because you deserve brave science.

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Leads major statistical programming efforts for clinical program area of responsibility. Develops and recommends system capabilities roadmap for in‑house development and external vendor selection process. Acts as a system expert in designing, developing, testing, maintaining, validating, and documenting SAS programs to evaluate clinical data and meet the project requirements for SAS statistical programming efforts. Provides expert‑level technical advice for all aspects of the program development process, tools and software, standards and procedures.

• Provides expert technical leadership across multiple functions serving as the key representative for Biometrics
• Contributes to the development of Biometrics functional strategy and serves as system expert for Statistical Programming efforts
• Leads and mentors a team of statistical programmers to support the analysis and reporting of data from clinical and nonclinical studies for all corporate development programs
• Leads end‑to‑end statistical programming work‑streams on multidisciplinary program teams company‑wide
• Provides technical direction in the development and implementation of programming standards and conventions, building statistical programming infrastructure
• Provides workforce planning recommendations based on project workloads in order to ensure appropriate programming resources are available to complete tasks in a timely manner
• Manages vendor selection processes and validates vendor programming activities such as CDISC implementation, analysis reporting, and programming conventions
• Supports creation and validation of e‑submission requirements (i.e. annotated CRF, datasets files, define documents)
• Serves as primary/lead programmer for agency reporting deliverables such as DSUR/Annual Report and IB updates
• Performs the function of lead and/or quality control statistical programmer on projects as needed
• Performs other duties as assigned

• BS/BA degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related discipline AND 8+ years in the Biopharmaceutical (or CRO) industry as a statistical programmer with advanced knowledge of SAS, (Base, Stat, Macro, graph), CDISC data structures. In addition, must have at least 2 years of experience serving in a supervisory or lead capacity. Experience managing large projects and external vendors. OR
• Master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related discipline AND 6+ years similar experience noted above OR
• PhD degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related discipline AND 4+ years similar experience noted above
• Anticipates business and industry issues; recommends relevant process / technical / service improvements
• Demonstrates broad expertise…