Job Description

Principal Statistician

  • Salary: £42.42 per hour
  • REF Number: v-160010
  • Consultant: Key Accounts Team
  • Contact: 01438 870011
  • Date Published: 27.10.2025
  • Industry: Biotech
  • Location: Essex, Essex, England
  • Functional Expertise: Biometrics & Data Management

CK Group are recruiting for a Principal Statistician to join a to join a global pharmaceutical company on a contract basis for 24 months.

Salary:

£42.42 per hour PAYE - this role is inside IR35

This position is fully remote.

Principal Statistician

Role:

  • Provide statistical support in protocol development for observational studies and/or clinical trials.
  • Author and review of statistical analysis plans, analysis dataset specifications, and TFL shells.
  • Work with programming and other cross-functional teams in Phase-4 non-interventional study to develop CRF, validate and review the datasets and results.
  • Conduct programming and analysis for Medical Affairs, RWE studies.
  • Support develop abstract, poster and manuscript as deliverables.
Your Background:

  • PhD or MS in Biostatistics or Statistics2 or equivalent experience
  • Previous experience in pharmaceutical industry to provide statistical input into the study design, statistical analysis, and reporting of interventional and observational studies.
  • Previous experience with Phase-4 study, Medical Affairs study, Real World Evidence (RWE) or HEOR study.4
  • Experience in statistical software, SAS and R.5.
  • Experience with Real World Data (RWD) and RWE methodologies, such as propensity score analysis, causal inference.
Company:

Our clients aim is to be a global leader in generics and biopharmaceuticals, improving the lives of patients across the world.

Location:

This role is fully remote.

Apply:

For more information, or to apply for this Principal Statistician

role please contact the Key Accounts Team on 01438 870011 or email pharmacontracts@ckagroup.co.uk. Please quote reference 160 010.

Please note:

This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK

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