Pharmacometrician, based in Serbia

Description

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: 

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. 

Job Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

The Pharmacometrician is an expert in clinical pharmacology, having adequate pharmacometrics, statistical, mathematical and programming knowledge to develop sound and useful models to inform drug development. He or she is also involved in implementing structured and standardized data modeling practices and related SOPs, and acts a technical and scientific counsel for both internal and external clients.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Use quantitative approaches to integrate knowledge of PK, PD, efficacy, safety, patient’s demographics, and pathophysiological factors to facilitate product development and decision making

• Perform population PK modeling and exposure-response modeling according to state-of-the-art methods and regulatory requirements

• Participate in the development of structured and standardized data modeling practices and related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

• Act as a pharmacometric consultant in clinical pharmacology study design (e.g. optimal sampling, protocol review, etc.)

• Perform comprehensive quality control/peer review procedures

• Author data analysis plans

• Support the company pharmacometrics initiatives toward internal and external clients

• Support the pharmacokineticists and biostatisticians with regards to pharmacometrics

• Participate to research and development initiatives in the field of pharmacometrics, resulting in peer-reviewed publications

• Maintain a sound working relationship with the statisticians and pharmacokineticists

• The employee may be called upon to perform other tasks related to their skill set, and for which he/she has been trained

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• MSc or Ph.D. in pharmacometrics, mathematics, statistics or related field

• Relative alternate certification may be considered acceptable

• Must demonstrate good computer skills especially in the utilization of Microsoft Word and Excel and mathematical/statistical programming languages (e.g. NONMEM, Monolix, R, Matlab)

• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince and persuade

• Required English language level includes communicating verbally and in writing on topics that are often technical, and writing procedures or technical reports.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.