Executive Director, Head of Biostatistics

The Executive Director is responsible for providing technical leadership and biostatistical support to Clinical Development through the design and conduct of clinical studies; review and accuracy of clinical data; the evaluation, interpretation, and reporting of study results; and regulatory submissions to the FDA and other regulatory agencies.

Essential Job Functions

• Independently leads the development and execution of statistical aspects for multiple complex clinical trials, including contribution to study trial design, analysis planning, study results presentation and interpretation, clinical study report authoring, regulatory submissions, and publications.
• Participates in establishing and maintaining policies, standards, and procedures for biostatistics and programming activities.
• Reviews or authors statistical analysis sections of protocols, statistical analysis plans (SAP), clinical study reports (CSR), regulatory documents or scientific publications, generates or reviews study randomization, sample size/power estimations.
• Review CRF's to ensure analysis data items are included and appropriately captured.
• Review of data validation checks to ensure analysis variable cleaning expectations are included.
• Review of TLF Shells and TLFs.
• Review of SDTM and/or ADaM programming specifications. Review of vendor data transfer specifications for that data will be included in SDTM.
• Creation of a Study Data Standardization plan by program/ indication.
• Ad hoc review of displays in support of publications/meeting, IDMB.
• Manage timelines for creation/review/approval for stats/programming activities (SAP, SDTM, TLFs Shells, final TLFs).  
• Provides statistically sound scientific methodology experimental design and data analysis input to meet project objectives and FDA (and other regulatory agencies) statistical and data requirements in a clear, concise, complete, and transparent manner that provide influence on key development decisions.
• Develops statistical programs to perform pre-specified or ad-hoc analyses and prepare data displays.
• Performs and reports study results of statistical analyses to provide interpretation of data and sound study conclusions.
• Provides leadership to the organization in evaluating alternative or innovative methods of analyzing and interpreting data, evaluates implications for study design.
• Takes accountability for ensuring quality in all planning, design, and execution of assignments associated with the assigned protocol or project.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

• Ph.D. degree in statistics and 12+ years of experience (or master's degree in relevant statistics field and 15+ years of clinical trial experience) in the pharmaceutical or biotech companies, or related experience or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Proven knowledge and expertise in statistics and its applications to clinical trials.
• Team player, with ability to work successfully across functions.
• Demonstrated written and excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate statistical concepts into layman's terms.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Proficiency with statistical programming in SAS and/or R.
• Knowledgeable in CDISC standards, including SDTM, ADaM.
• Familiar with ICH guidelines, FDA, and other regulatory authority guidance.
• Preferably NDA experience, including eCTD submission.

The base range for an Executive Director is $300,000- $342,000 per year. Individual pay may vary based on additional factors, including, and without limitation, job-related skills, experience, work location, and relevant education or training. Kura's compensation package also includes generous benefits, equity, and participation in an annual target bonus.