Senior Biostatistician, Digital Trials

Overview

In this role you provide senior statistical leadership for EMBRACE’s digital trials, guiding design, analysis and reporting of observational and interventional studies. You will advance AI-enabled clinical research with decentralised and remote trial methods and analyse complex longitudinal and multimodal data, including wearable and app-generated data. You’ll collaborate across clinical, data science, epidemiology and technology teams to shape protocols, SAPs, submissions and methodological advances. This is a high-impact, mission-driven position at a leading research collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior statistical expertise for the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of observational and interventional studies within the EMBRACE programme
• Contribute to protocol development, statistical analysis plans and regulatory submissions
• Lead methodological development for innovative digital and AI-enabled clinical research
• Analyse complex longitudinal and multimodal datasets, including wearable and app-generated data
• Collaborate with clinicians, data scientists, epidemiologists and technologists across the programme
• Support quality governance in line with GCP and regulatory considerations
• Mentor junior staff, supervise students/postdocs, and manage statistical workstreams
• Publish findings and contribute to the programme’s scientific impact

Key requirements

• PhD in statistics/biostatistics/epidemiology/health data science or closely related discipline
• Significant experience leading statistical analysis for clinical or population health research
• Experience with complex health datasets (longitudinal/high-dimensional) and software (R, Stata, SAS, Python)
• Strong organisational and strategic planning skills
• Applied knowledge of GCP and regulatory aspects of clinical research
• Ability to communicate complex statistics to multidisciplinary teams
• Good publication record and experience securing external funding
• Experience mentoring staff and leading statistical workstreams
• Desirable: experience with digital/decentralised/remote trials and real-world data

• Strong communication of complex concepts
• Stakeholder management
• Mentoring and leadership
• R
• Stata
• SAS

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