Director/ AD - Pharmacometrics & Modeler at Certara in Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities

• Support projects for Certara’s clients by working in teams with other Associates, senior expert modelers, and drug development consultants.
• Hands on pharmacometric modeling on client projects as a billable consultant.
• Conduct quality control activities on model codes and reports.
• May lead/coordinate company initiatives (e.g. IT, methodology, efficiency, automation, quality).
• May act as the primary point of contact for clients and collaborate with a senior consultant to grow business to match their interests.

Skills & Abilities

• PhD, MD, PharmD in Bioengineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacology, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Medicine, or related field.
• 1 to 5 years of industry/consulting experience (may be combined with academic research) working in R&D, pre-clinical and clinical environments.
• Solid experience in pharmacometrics, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, or a related discipline in a project team setting is preferred, whether in academia or industry.
• Expertise in PK/PD modelling with strong quantitative skills applied to develop models with nonlinear behavior, mechanistic or semi-mechanistic components relating to mechanism of action and tailored to meet specific drug-development questions.
• Proficiency in PK/PD and statistical software (e.g., NONMEM, R).
• Proficient in modeling (e.g., popPK and PK/PD analyses, model-based meta-analysis, dose-response and exposure-response analyses, dataset creation, disease modeling, trial simulation, optimal study designs, strategic decision analyses, economic modeling).
• Experience in moving compounds through the clinical trials process and experience with various elements of clinical development and trial design and management and filings preferred.
• Independent performance of analysis and modeling and development of reports with limited supervision.
• Comfortable in a client environment able to communicate with and collaborate with peer scientists.
• Developing ability to identify new business development opportunities through client interactions.
• Proficient in spoken and written English. Certara is a global company, and additional languages are of benefit.
• Travel <10%

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