Planner Biostatistics

Company Description

At **SGS**, you can choose. First of all, out of our various vacancies. However, SGS also gives you another choice. Do you choose to _expand_ or to _enrich_? We are not only looking for colleagues who can go in to depths of their discipline. We are equally as much looking for colleagues who we call ‘connectors’, people who can connect our diversity to our services. To each other. And this way, enrich our business.

**SGS** is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We’re also the benchmark worldwide for quality and integrity. And that makes us very proud. This can only happen thanks to more than 90 000 colleagues worldwide, with 1650 employees in Belgium only. Our employees give 110% of themselves every day, divided over all expertises, branches and cultures. Our coworkers build their own way inside the company, the services and the expertise.

**SGS Life Sciences **carries out all type of services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, from coordination and running of clinical trials with new molecules or techniques on human beings, to support and consultancy on post marketing registration activities. **SGS Life Sciences **has also expertise in the quality control of pharmaceuticals.

In the spirit of continued growth and to help improve our business, we are currently seeking for a Planner Biostatistics.

**Job Description**:
**Failing to plan is planning to fail.**

In this position, you will be responsible for all aspects related to the **planning of the broad range of activities** within the SGS Biostatistical department located in Mechelen, Belgium.

Able to work independently and collaboratively, your primary responsibilities will include:

- Collect the data and information required for planning purposes
- Attendance to planning meetings with the Biostatistical Manager
- To discuss and agree on overall planning
- To discuss changes in planning and possible impact on resource planning.
- Attendance to meetings related to STAT planning (internal and external)
- Maintain planning file used to assign resources, containing detailed tasks on multiple projects
- Communicate timelines in function of planning to the project manager:

- Provide feedback on proposed/updated planning
- Evaluate practice towards planning and communicate the necessary updates
- Regularly communicate planning to the colleagues

**Qualifications**:
**What do you need to be successful?**
- Bachelor of Science
- No experience required - training on the job. Pharma/CRO knowledge is an asset
- Strong communication skills
- Assertive
- Taking initiative and responsibility.
- Flexibility and open to other people’s opinion; prepared to listen and willing to learn
- Positive, constructive and professional attitude towards colleagues and clients
- Problem solving skills
- People management skills
- Respect budgets and timelines
- Be (and remain) critical towards own work and other people’s work
- Document in an orderly fashion
- Multitasker
- Stress resistant
- Fluent in English

Additional Information
**What we have to offer**:
Were you already considering a big switch in your career? Maybe this could be your next step. At SGS you can count on an interesting position where you can take responsibility. Come enjoy our fun team of colleagues and on top of that, we will reward you with an interesting salary package (incl. retirement plan, meal vouchers,)

**Do you want to be part of this?