This role is ideal for a leader with a strong foundation in statistics and broad expertise in areas such as adaptive designs, innovative designs, clinical development strategy, data science, or model-informed drug development. You will provide strategic guidance to help clients define optimal regulatory, clinical, and market access pathways, ultimately supporting faster patient access to better health technologies.
Responsibilities- Provide strategic advice on client projects, working closely with Strategic Consultants and Analysts to define optimal regulatory, clinical, and/or market access strategies.
- Develop innovative, tailored solutions by combining established methodologies with novel statistical and analytical approaches.
- Lead assigned Strategic Consulting accounts and projects, serving as the primary client contact for consulting engagements.
- Build trusted, long-term partnerships with clients and take ownership of their strategic needs.
- Contribute to Cytel’s thought leadership in statistical methodology and clinical development strategy.
- Identify, develop, and pursue new business opportunities within Strategic Consulting and across Cytel’s broader business units.
- Recognize emerging client needs and design solutions that support revenue growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
- Represent Cytel externally, raising brand awareness and strengthening the company’s position as an industry leader.
- Travel regularly and engage directly with senior management and executive-level stakeholders at prospective and existing clients.
- Build and leverage strong relationships across internal teams and external client organizations.
- Advanced understanding of the biopharmaceutical R&D process, combined with strong business acumen and awareness of broader industry challenges.
- Strong statistical expertise, with experience in areas such as adaptive designs, clinical development, data science, regulatory strategy, or model-informed drug development.
- Strategic thinker with a global mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to solve complex problems.
- Comfortable engaging with and presenting to senior executives and decision-makers.
- Experience interacting with regulatory agencies such as the FDA and EMA, as well as key opinion leaders, to enhance clinical development plans.
- Proven leadership and management skills, including the ability to build, mentor, and motivate teams of consultants and analysts.
- Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and self-motivated, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Master’s degree in Mathematics, Biostatistics, or a related field required; PhD preferred.
- MBA, MD, or other advanced degree is highly desirable.
- 10–15 years of experience in clinical trials, health research, or a related environment.
- Play a meaningful role in helping clients and the wider industry shape the future of drug development.
- Join Cytel during an exciting period of growth, with opportunities to progress into senior leadership roles.
- Work alongside some of the brightest minds in biostatistics, clinical development, and data science.
- Contribute to innovative approaches that help bring safe and effective health technologies to patients faster.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in Mathematics, Biostatistics, or a related field
- PhD in relevant field
- MBA, MD, or other advanced degree
- 10-15 years of experience in clinical trials, health research, or a related environment
- Advanced understanding of the biopharmaceutical R&D process and strong business acumen
- Strong statistical expertise (adaptive designs, innovative designs, clinical development strategy, data science, or model-informed drug development)
- Experience interacting with regulatory agencies such as the FDA and EMA and with key opinion leaders
- Proven leadership and management skills, including building, mentoring, and motivating teams
- Ability to engage with and present to senior executives and decision-makers
- Collaborative, entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Willingness to travel regularly for client engagements
Cytel Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cytel and has not been reviewed or approved by Cytel.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life and disability, with FSAs/HSAs also available. Plan quality is often characterized as good to excellent, which lifts the perceived value of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is consistently part of the benefits package. The plan is also characterized as well managed, contributing to a sense of baseline retirement support.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Overall pay is characterized as decent-to-good and broadly competitive in parts of the business, with stronger alignment noted in senior technical tracks like biostatistics and programming. The total package is often framed as respectable rather than premium.
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What We Do
Cytel enables decision-makers in the life sciences to unlock the full potential of their products. From navigating uncertainty to proving value, Cytel’s 30 years of global expertise in consulting, data-driven analytics, and industry-leading software helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies transform intelligence into confident decisions. We have an uncompromising commitment to scientific rigor and high standards of operational excellence, which are channeled through our locations in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Asia. Together, we enable our clients to deliver the therapies that propel humanity forward. Cytel employs a range of data science tools from biostatistics to machine learning to help executives in the life-sciences to make confident decisions powered by data. We are probably best known for being leaders in the field of adaptive clinical trial design, a subset of trial design that uses interim looks to enhance the patient safety and commercial value of pharmaceutical products. We also have specialists in Bayesian statistics, real world evidence, artificial intelligence, health economics, and a number of other research fields to ensure that academic and scientific findings can have impact on industry quickly and seamlessly. www.cytel.com
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