We are seeking a Senior Contract Programmer with leadership and organisational skills to work as part of the statistical and programming team providing programming support as outlined below to a variety of clients in the Veramed portfolio. This role provides the opportunity to progress towards becoming a Lead Programmer at Veramed.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This role entails a wide variety of responsibilities and client exposure – you are certainly not pigeon holed.
Below is a range of the types of tasks you could be carrying out on a daily basis. As with many roles at Veramed, you have the opportunity to shape their direction dependent on client needs and your own career aspirations.
PROGRAMMING:
- Act as Senior programmer for client projects and studies.
- Contribute to the maintenance of the project plan.
- Proactively manage programming resource task assignments, scope change and risks.
- Contribute to the management of the delivery of projects within budget.
- Manage client expectations and issue resolution.
DAILY INTERACTIONS:
- Build an effective and collaborative relationship with the client.
- Lead the internal Veramed programming team to deliver on time, within budget, high quality work.
- Provide support and mentoring for more inexperienced programmers on the team.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR:
- Potential to develop into a Lead role.
- Contributing to initiatives that consider employees, the environment and our local communities as part of our B Corp accreditation.
- Peer mentoring and/or line management.
- Taking ownership of a study or group of studies and implementing new ideas and processes to aid delivery.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
- A warm, friendly working environment in which to thrive both personally and professionally.
- A supportive, open-door management policy that will aid in your development and provide you with the tools to take your career to the next level.
- Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects, allowing you to diversify your workload and work closely with some of the biggest pharma companies in the industry.
- Work with a truly unique CRO that’s doing something different when it comes to managing staff, projects and building relationships in the industry.
- The ability to truly own your role and develop your skills and experience.
BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE:
- Understanding of the clinical drug development process and relevant disease areas.
- Awareness of industry and project standards as well as ICH guidelines.
- Experienced in the implementation of data standards at a study level.
- Interpersonal/teamwork and communications skills for effective interactions.
- Proficiency in using SAS or other statistical software (e.g. R).
- Team leadership skills with a focus on results for timely and accurate completion of competing deliverables.
- Demonstrated problem solving ability and attention to detail.