**Site Name**: Italy - Siena
**Posted Date**: Oct 7 2024
**Join the **GSK** **Biostatistics **Graduate **Programme** - **Italy**, **202**5**:Help us **get ahead of disease **together**
**Education required**: MS/MSc or PhD degree from an accredited college/university in Statistics/Biostatistics or closely related discipline with formal statistics training.
Graduation by August 2025.
**Language requirement**: Written and spoken fluency in English
**Other requirements**: Willingness to be geographically mobile (domestic) throughout rotations.
**Expected** **Start date**: September 2025
**Assessment** Centre **Date**: January - February 2025
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
Our success absolutely depends on our people.
We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be.
A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued and included.
Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing.
So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get ahead together.
**Ahead together with tailored training and career development**
If you're a graduate with the talent and ambition to lead others, we'll help you develop the skills to be one of our Graduates.
Over two years, our Graduate Programme will challenge and support you to grow professionally and personally.
The programme may follow one of two schemes, each scheme comprised of three fascinating rotations that will give you a thorough grounding in key areas of statistics in vaccine Research and/or Development:
- Clinical Statistics in viral vaccine projects, from early to late phases of clinical development; Vaccines Clinical Assay Statistics in a variety of settings; Statistics and Data Science Innovation Hub to strengthen your skills on the latest innovative statistical methodologies.
- Clinical Statistics in bacterial vaccine projects, from early to late phases of clinical development; Statistics and Data Science Innovation Hub to strengthen your skills on the latest innovative statistical methodologies; Pre-clinical and Research Statistics Group to explore what happens before a vaccine enters the human phase of development.
Both schemes also foresee numerous interactions with the statistical programming team and require intensive use of software such as SAS, R, PASS.
You will have hands-on experiences and mentoring to allow you to explore these areas of applied statistics, biostatistics & machine learning and inform future career decisions.
Throughout the programme, you'll work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues and stakeholders to progress the portfolio to get ahead of disease together.
**What will you do?
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Examples will vary by scheme, but include:
- Collaborate closely with GSK scientists to identify and address important research questions with traditional and cutting-edge statistical approaches
- Participate in the design of preclinical and clinical experiments and ensure experiments are designed to address scientific questions clearly and accurately
- Perform calculations or comprehensive simulation studies to understand the properties of complex, adaptive clinical trial designs (Bayesian and non-Bayesian)
- Analyze preclinical and early/late phase clinical trial data using appropriate methods, including but not limited to linear/non-linear (mixed) models, machine learning models, joint models and other multivariate methods, and Bayesian modelling
- Communicate statistical concepts, design recommendations, and the results of statistical analyses clearly and accurately to GSK scientists and research managers at all levels
- Evaluate & develop new methods & tools to support analyses
- Assist with the coaching, mentoring, and training of non-statisticians as required on the appropriate use of statistical methodologies for their business processes
- Work in multidisciplinary scientific and clinical development teams
- Interact with Health Authorities in the context of preIND, IND, BLA, Scientific Advice Meetings and many other circumstances.
- Learn statistical methodologies used in drug discovery, drug development & clinical trials
**What are we looking for?
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- Strong quantitative skills/aptitude with experience/expertise in some of the above-mentioned statistical methodologies.
- Learning agility and open-mindset
- Ability for effective teamwork
- Passion for improving health
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to work independently with guidance
- Strong problem-solving skills driven by curiosity and innovation
- Basic understanding/interest in biology and the mindset to delve deeper to optimize your statistical input
**What** do we offer you?
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- A competitive sal