At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise.
As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide.
At ICON Strategic Solutions, we’re growing our Statistical Programming teams, with remote opportunities available across various locations throughout EMEA for programmers with a range of experience and technical backgrounds.
With opportunities across a variety of clients, we’ll work with you to identify the role that best matches your experience, expertise and career goals.
What you could be doing
Your responsibilities will vary depending on your experience and the client program you join, and may include:
- Developing, validating and maintaining statistical programs to support clinical trial analysis and reporting.
- Creating and reviewing analysis datasets and statistical outputs, including tables, listings and figures.
- Working with programming languages and industry standards relevant to your client and programme, which may include R, SDTM and ADaM.
- Collaborating with biostatisticians and cross-functional clinical teams to deliver high-quality statistical outputs.
- Performing quality control and validation to ensure accuracy, consistency and data integrity.
- Contributing to programming strategy, process improvements, automation and standardisation.
- Taking greater ownership of studies and programming activities as your experience progresses, with opportunities to provide technical leadership and support other programmers.
What we’re looking for
We’re interested in hearing from Statistical Programmers with various levels of experience and technical backgrounds.
Depending on the client and opportunity, you may bring:
- Experience in statistical programming within clinical research, pharmaceutical or biotechnology environments.
- Strong programming skills relevant to clinical trials.
- Experience with R and/or CDISC standards such as SDTM and ADaM, depending on your area of expertise.
- Knowledge of clinical trial data, statistical analysis and reporting.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
- The ability to collaborate effectively with biostatisticians and cross-functional teams.
- For more experienced programmers, experience taking ownership of studies, providing technical guidance or leading programming activities.
If you’re a Statistical Programmer considering your next career move, apply today and let’s explore where your experience could take you at ICON Strategic Solutions.
Employment with ICON is contingent upon having the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.
Rewards & Benefits
ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.
Benefits may include:
- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
- Retirement and pension plans
- Life assurance and disability coverage
- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways
Benefits may vary depending on role and location.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
Inclusion and Accessibility
ICON is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know or submit a request here.
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Skills Required
- Experience in statistical programming within clinical research, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology environments
- Strong programming skills relevant to clinical trials
- Experience with R and/or CDISC standards such as SDTM and ADaM
- Knowledge of clinical trial data, statistical analysis, and reporting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate effectively with biostatisticians and cross-functional teams
- Legal right to work in the country where the role is based
- Study ownership, technical guidance, or programming leadership experience
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as comprehensive, with medical coverage and wellness initiatives highlighted. Larger sites are also associated with added wellness supports such as onsite fitness options and access to an employee assistance program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off and flexibility provisions are positioned as a meaningful part of the total package, including vacation/annual leave and flexible work scheduling. Flexibility is sometimes cited as helping offset long hours in certain roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and savings support is presented as a core component of the benefits package, including offerings such as pension arrangements in some locations and a U.S. 401(k) plan with company match. Financial planning resources are also emphasized as part of broader security benefits.
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What We Do
Since our foundation in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, our mission has been to help our clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life. We do this by delivering best in class information, solutions and performance, with an unyielding focus on quality at all times. We offer a full range of consulting, development and commercialisation services from a global network of offices in 53 countries. We focus our innovation on the factors that are critical to our clients – reducing time to market, reducing cost, and increasing quality – and our global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas.
