Biostatistical Programming Manager

Career Category

Clinical

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Biostatistical Programming Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will report to a Sr. Manager in CfOR’s Data & Analytic Center. This role will support the CfOR organization by setting goals with CfOR epidemiologists, laying out a strategy to deliver on those goals, and coordinating with a functional service provider (FSP)-based team of contract programmers to achieve the goals. In addition, the Manager is responsible for staying informed of evolving department needs and industry best practices, identifying innovative, impactful proposals to increase efficiency, and supporting the organization’s growth strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead an FSP-based programming team conducting analyses supporting CfOR’s Data & Analytic Center
• Coordinate with functional leads to prioritize and manage workflow
• Identify potential efficiency improvements and propose solutions
• Collaborate with CfOR FSP liaison to ensure performance and quality standards from FSP-based programming team
• Ensure the analysis and presentation of biomedical data is accurate and complete
• Adhere to Amgen policies, SOPs and other controlled documents
• Write, test, and validate programs in SAS, Databricks, or R
• Efficiently manage FSP-based programming team to deliver on time and to specifications
• Review and approve key study-related documents produced by other functions, e.g. SAPs, Data Management Plans, etc.
• Write and/or review and approve programming plans and analysis dataset specifications
• Represent the programming function and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of programming, CfOR, and Research and Development (R&D)
• Write, test and validate department-, product- and protocol-level macros and utilities
• Participate in intra-departmental and CfOR meetings
• Support and mentor junior programmers

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a Biostatistical Programming Manager with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR
• Master’s degree and 2 years of experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 8 years of experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or other subject with high statistical content
• Vendor relationship management or related experience with functional service providers
• Experience with real world healthcare data such as MarketScan, Optum, Komodo, Medicare and EMR databases
• Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Database programming using SQL
• Minimum five years SAS programming experience
• Experience with advanced statistical methods such as survival and regression analysis

Key Competencies

• Programming with SAS, R, SQL, Python or other procedural languages
• Technical excellence
• Leadership
• Innovation
• Project management
• Teamwork
• Problem solving
• Attention to detail
• Oral and written communication

Understanding of computer operating systems, including cloud-based (AWS), Databricks and UNIX

What you can expect from us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

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