Biostatistics Intern

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Biostatistics Intern

Title: Biostatistics Intern
Reports To: Director, Biostatistics
Location: Richmond, VA/Remote

Indivior is a global pharmaceutical company working to help change patients' lives by developing medicines to treat substance use disorders (SUD). Our vision is that all patients around the world will have access to evidence-based treatment for the chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of SUD. Indivior is dedicated to transforming SUD from a global human crisis to a recognized and treated chronic disease. Building on its global portfolio of OUD treatments, Indivior has a pipeline of product candidates designed to expand on its heritage in this category.

Indivior was founded to help tackle the opioid crisis, one of the largest and most urgent public health emergencies of our time.  Our purpose is to bring science-based, life-transforming treatments to patients.  We strive to help eliminate the stigma of addiction.  We take our role as a responsible steward extremely seriously and commit ourselves to cultivating our unique culture and highest standards of integrity.

We are driving forward our understanding of addiction and other serious mental health illnesses to create new science that will help pave the way for an even deeper understanding of patient needs and treatment innovation.  We engage at all levels across the addiction treatment spectrum, interacting with governments, key opinion leaders, physicians, payers, patients, and patient advocacy groups to raise awareness and educate about addiction as a chronic, relapsing disease.

Connect with Indivior on LinkedIn by visiting www.linkedin.com/company/indivior.

POSITION SUMMARY:
Biostatistics plays a critical role in pioneering life-transforming treatments.  The candidate will partner with Indivior statisticians, clinicians, clinical pharmacologists, and other scientists to support statistical analyses of clinical studies.  The candidate will be involved in the design, execution, analysis, and reporting clinical studies, and ensure the quality and appropriateness of statistical deliverables. She/he will review scientific literature and promote innovative statistical methods.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
The responsibilities of this job include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Bring innovative statistical methods to enhance quantitative drug discovery. This includes systematic review of prior information, statistical model building and simulation, utilizing Bayesian methods as appropriate, to determine most appropriate study design, statistical methodologies, and design more effective clinical plans.
• Participate in the development/develop and execute analytical plans.
• Interpret study results, critically review statistical outputs, ensure that the interpretations of the statistical results are scientifically sound, accurate and consistent with planned objectives.
• Prepare oral and written report to effectively communicate results of clinical trials to Indivior management or regulatory agencies.
• Assist in the development of publications to report statistical results.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• PhD candidate in the field of Biostatistics/Statistics (must be enrolled in school for duration of internship).
• Demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal) skills, ability to communicate clearly statistical concepts to non-statisticians.
• Demonstrate problem solving and organizational skills.
• Demonstrate a high degree of technical competency, including with statistical modeling.
• Strong working Knowledge of SAS programming, winNonlin and R.
• Good knowledge of Bayesian methods, and understanding of methods for missing data handling, multiplicity and Gatekeeping procedures in Clinical trials.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES:

Indivior’s guiding principles are the foundation for each employee’s success and growth. Each employee is expected to demonstrate understanding and adherence to our guiding principles in their everyday performance.

COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS:

Indivior is committed to maintaining a workplace where employees are committed to compliance and feel comfortable raising concerns about potential violations of policies or unethical behaviour. As part of your responsibilities, you are expected to:

Employee Obligations:

• Always act with honesty and integrity.
• Risk IQ: Know what policies apply to your role and function and adhere to them.
• Speak Up: If you see something, say something.

Manager Obligations:

• Always act with honesty and integrity
• Reinforce risk awareness with your team, with accountability and oversight for ongoing review and mitigation.
• Model and reinforce a Speak Up culture on your team.

The duties and responsibilities identified in this position description are considered essential but are not limited to only those outlined.  The employee may perform other functions that may be assigned.  Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of this position at any time.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled