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About the Role

The Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics (QP2) Department is seeking an Associate Director to support growing cardiometabolic pipelines. This role involves representing QP2 on cross-functional teams, contributing to the discovery and development of novel therapeutic agents, and applying quantitative drug development expertise to advance innovative therapies for patients.

Responsibilities

Develop and apply model-based strategies, including translational PK/PD approaches, mechanistic models, population PK/PD analyses, and clinical trial simulations, to inform quantitative decision-making.
Optimize drug discovery and development decisions, including dose selection, clinical trial design, and go/no-go recommendations.
Represent QP2 on cardiometabolic discovery, early clinical development, and late clinical development teams, using quantitative approaches to support program advancement.
Partner collaboratively with functional area colleagues, external vendors, and strategic partners to build aligned, quantitative, and model-informed approaches.
Collaborate across disciplines on study design, protocol development, study execution, data interpretation, reporting, and communication of results.
Maintain a strong understanding of global regulatory expectations and contribute to the development, presentation, and defense of regulatory documents and submissions.
Provide scientific input on modeling strategies, analyses, interpretation, and reporting to pharmacometrics colleagues.

Requirements

Ph.D. or equivalent degree with at least 4 years of relevant experience; PharmD or equivalent degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience; or MS or equivalent degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience.
Relevant experience should reflect increasing responsibility and independence in pharmaceutical drug development, a regulatory agency, or academia.
Educational background in biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacometrics, chemical or biomedical engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
Experience conducting population PK and PK/PD analyses using standard pharmacometrics software, such as R, Matlab, Phoenix, NONMEM, Monolix, or similar tools.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to collaborate across disciplines, scope complex problems, and plan work effectively.
Knowledge in modeling complex therapeutics, mechanistic modeling/ QSP.
Knowledge of cardiometabolic clinical drug development programs.
Advanced skills in mathematical problem-solving, critical data analysis and interpretation, experimental design, and statistics.
Scientific understanding of the biopharmaceutical and ADME properties of small molecules and/or biologics.
A strong record of increasing responsibility, independence, and demonstrated impact in advancing drug development decisions through model-based approaches.

Skills

Business Intelligence (BI)
Database Design
Data Engineering
Data Modeling
Data Science
Data Visualization
Machine Learning (ML)
Software Development
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Waterfall Model

Location

Rahway, NJ
West Point, PA

Work Type

Hybrid
Regular
Domestic Relocation
10% Travel

Experience Level

Associate Director

Education Level

Ph.D.
PharmD
MS

Salary/Compensations

$156,900.00 - $247,000.00

Benefits

Annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
Medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family).
Retirement benefits, including 401(k).
Paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.

About the Company

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds.
The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment.
We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.

Equal Opportunity

As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance