Certara
Associate Director, PKPD Programmer (Remote position open in all EU locations)
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About Certara
Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.
Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry’s use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.
Responsibilities
- Provides leadership for PKPD programming aspects of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics data management by timely completion and high quality of all required deliverables, as well as manages a team of PKPD programmers.
- Manage and prepare data for state-of-the-art analysis, such as PPK, PKPD, exposure-response (efficacy or safety), and C-QTc, typically based on CDISC ADaM / SDTM datasets.
- Manage and prepare data for state-of-the-art NCA analysis, such as ADPC, PP, and ADPP, including the creation of defined packages and reviewer guides.
- Write, maintain, and develop high-quality Programs (R, SAS) to facilitate the construction of analysis datasets.
- Interact directly with the client on topics around data transfers, dataset specifications, and data queries.
- Conduct exploratory analyses of PKPD data in support of modeling analyses.
- Following completion of the project deliverables, you are responsible for the creation of an electronic submission package for future submission to regulatory agencies.
- Conduct quality control and quality assurance activities on datasets and reports.
- Initialize or participate in company initiatives to improve the quality and efficiency of the PKPD programming process (IT, methodology, automation, quality).
- Ensure that work is delivered on time and within budget to achieve business results.
- Provide training and mentor new hires and junior staff, and help to develop data programming skills and Efficiencies.
- Coordinate the PKPD programming support for projects and assist Pharmacometricians in finding resources.
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Qualifications
- BS, MSc, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience and expertise in PKPD programming and analysis, report writing, and regulatory drug submissions.
- General knowledge of clinical drug development and demonstrated knowledge of pharmacokinetics and pharmacology.
- Expertise in PK/PD programming with strong quantitative skills applied to develop PPK, PKPD, ER-efficacy, ER-safety, and C-QTc datasets.
- Expertise in software used for dataset construction (e.g. R, SAS).
- Strong track record of working in various therapeutic areas.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements and trends with respect to data standards.
- Advanced user of SAS software (SAS9-Base) with proven experience in life sciences and clinical trials. Familiar in working with CDISC data formats. Experience with the R software platform is a plus.
- Applies innovative approaches to day-to-day work.
- Good project management skills. Accuracy, sense of urgency, and quality, timely delivery. Able to take responsibility for executing deliverables according to internal procedures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Eager to learn and develop. Informed about current knowledge developments in their area of expertise and actively acquires new skills to keep up to date, demonstrating an interest in continuous improvement.
- Ability to work in cross-functional project teams.
- Excellent team player and team leader skills.
- Able to work under minimal supervision and make connections across projects.
- Experience in supervising teams with a strong preference for supervision of PKPD programmers and/or statistical programmers.
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