Sr. Manager, Biostatistician / Programmer
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should include only sections with real content. The posting includes: Role Overview (maybe "About the role"), Key Responsibilities, Requirements (includes education, experience, etc). Also there is a note about benefits: "Please note: These benefits are offered exclusively to permanent full-time employees. Contractors are not eligible for benefits through Legend Biotech." That's a statement about benefits but no specifics. Since we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them (specific benefits). It only says benefits offered to permanent full-time employees, but no list. So we should not include Benefits section. Pay and Schedule not mentioned, so omit. Qualifications maybe same as Requirements? The posting has Requirements section; we can map that to Requirements heading. Skills maybe part of Requirements? Could separate Skills but we have no explicit skills list besides SAS, R, SDTM/ADaM, AI-assisted tools. Those are skills. Could create Skills section. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Requirements and Skills into one Requirements section. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can choose which to include. Likely include About the role (role overview), Responsibilities, Requirements (including qualifications and skills). No Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we need to strip out the EEO statement, work authorization, privacy notice, etc. Also remove the "Please note: These benefits are offered exclusively..."? That's not boilerplate but it's about benefits; but we are not including Benefits section, but we could keep that sentence maybe in About the role? It's about benefits eligibility; but it's not substantive detail about role. Might be considered boilerplate? It's a statement about benefits eligibility; but we are not including Benefits section, but we could keep it as a paragraph under About the role? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This is not exactly those categories, but it's about benefits eligibility. Might be considered legal boilerplate? It's about benefits eligibility for permanent full-time employees. Might be considered part of benefits but we are not listing benefits. Could keep as a short paragraph under About the role? However, the instruction says: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep that sentence somewhere. Since we are not making a Benefits section, we could include it in About the role as a note. But it's not about the role; it's about benefits eligibility. Might be better to include a Benefits section with that note? But the instruction says: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state that benefits are offered exclusively to permanent full-time employees. That's a statement about benefits, albeit not listing them. So we could create a Benefits section with that statement. However, the instruction also says: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. 'commensurate with experience', 'not specified', 'N/A', 'varies', 'TBD')". The benefits statement is specific: "These benefits are offered exclusively to permanent full-time employees. Contractors are not eligible for benefits through Legend Biotech." That's specific content. So we should include a Benefits section with that content.
Thus sections: About the role (role overview), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe includes qualifications and skills), Benefits.
We should not include Qualifications separate if we combine with Requirements. But we could have Requirements and Skills separate. However, to avoid thin sections, maybe combine Requirements and Skills into Requirements. The posting includes: "Master’s degree or PhD ... Demonstrated hands-on experience ... Strong understanding ... Proven ability ... Experience supporting oncology and/or cell therapy programs is strongly preferred. Advanced proficiency in SAS ... Working knowledge of R ... Strong experience with clinical data standards (e.g., SDTM, ADaM) Experience with or strong willingness to leverage AI-assisted programming tools ..." That's a mix of qualifications and skills. We'll put all under Requirements.
Now we need to format: About the role
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for prose. For lists:- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
We need to extract the role overview paragraph(s). The posting: "Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating and, one day, curing life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, we are advancing the next generation of cell therapy through a portfolio of innovative technologies, including autologous, allogeneic, and in vivo cell therapy approaches. Our research spans chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T), T-cell receptor (TCR-T), natural killer (NK) cell-based therapies, and other emerging platforms designed to transform the treatment of serious diseases. From our global network of research and development sites, we are committed to discovering and developing safe, effective, and cutting-edge therapies for patients worldwide. Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Johnson & Johnson to jointly develop and commercialize CARVYKTI® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel). Through this strategic partnership, we combine complementary expertise and capabilities to advance innovative immunotherapies for patients living with multiple myeloma. Legend Biotech is seeking a Sr. Manager, Biostatistician/Programmer as part of the Clinical team based in Somerset, NJ. Role Overview The Sr. Manager, Biostatistician/Programmer plays a critical hands-on role in supporting Legend Biotech’s clinical development programs by transforming clinical trial data into high-quality analyses, tables, figures, and listings that inform decision-making. This role partners closely with clinical, translational, research stakeholders to deliver timely insights, conduct exploratory and ad hoc analyses, and deeply understand the medical and scientific questions underlying the data. The position requires strong programming expertise, data agility, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to work independently in a fast-moving biotech environment."
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we should include the company description and role overview as About the role. Could split into two paragraphs: company description and role overview. We'll keep as
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maybe multipleelements. Now Responsibilities: bullet list from "Key Responsibilities". We'll extract each sentence as list item. Responsibilities bullet points: - Develop, validate, and maintain high-quality Tables, Figures, and Listings (TFLs) to support ongoing clinical trials, interim analyses, and internal/external deliverables in compliance with study requirements and standards. - Perform hands-on statistical programming and data manipulation to support planned and ad hoc analyses, addressing evolving clinical and scientific questions. - Independently explore and interrogate clinical trial data to identify trends, anomalies, and insights that support clinical interpretation and decision-making. - Collaborate closely with Biostatistics, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Data Management, Translational research and Medical teams to ensure alignment of analyses with protocol objectives and clinical intent. - Apply a strong understanding of therapeutic area, disease biology, and clinical endpoints to translate data into meaningful scientific insights. - Contribute to analysis datasets, program specifications, programming documentation, and quality control activities in accordance with internal standards and regulatory expectations. - Support process improvement initiatives, including enhancing programming efficiency, standardization, and reproducibility across studies and programs. - This role operates with a high degree of autonomy in determining programming approaches, exploratory analyses, and data interrogation strategies to answer clinical questions. - The Sr. Manager may independently make decisions related to analysis methods, programming solutions, prioritization of tasks, and investigative follow-up of data issues. - Escalation and alignment are expected for changes impacting study-level strategy, major deliverables, timelines with external visibility, or regulatory-facing outputs. Now Requirements: list items. Requirements bullet points: - Master’s degree or PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline. - Demonstrated hands-on experience developing TFLs and performing ad hoc and exploratory analyses for clinical trials. - Strong understanding of clinical trial design, clinical data structures, and the medical context behind analyses. - Proven ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and drive self-directed discovery from data. - Experience supporting oncology and/or cell therapy programs is strongly preferred. - Advanced proficiency in SAS for clinical trial analysis and reporting. - Working knowledge of R for exploratory analyses and data visualization. - Strong experience with clinical data standards (e.g., SDTM, ADaM). - Experience with or strong willingness to leverage AI-assisted programming tools to accelerate development, enhance code quality, and support efficient generation of Tables, Figures, and Listings (TFLs). Now Benefits: we have the note: "Please note: These benefits are offered exclusively to permanent full-time employees. Contractors are not eligible for benefits through Legend Biotech." We'll put that as a
under Benefits heading. We must not include any other boilerplate like Work Authorization, EEO, etc. Now output HTML fragment only. Let's craft:
About the role
Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating and, one day, curing life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, we are advancing the next generation of cell therapy through a portfolio of innovative technologies, including autologous, allogeneic, and in vivo cell therapy approaches. Our research spans chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T), T-cell receptor (TCR-T), natural killer (NK) cell-based therapies, and other emerging platforms designed to transform the treatment of serious diseases. From our global network of research and development sites, we are committed to discovering and developing safe, effective, and cutting-edge therapies for patients worldwide. Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Johnson & Johnson to jointly develop and commercialize CARVYKTI® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel). Through this strategic partnership, we combine complementary expertise and capabilities to advance innovative immunotherapies for patients living with multiple myeloma. Legend Biotech is seeking a Sr. Manager, Biostatistician/Programmer as part of the Clinical team based in Somerset, NJ.
The Sr. Manager, Biostatistician/Programmer plays a critical hands-on role in supporting Legend Biotech’s clinical development programs by transforming clinical trial data into high-quality analyses, tables, figures, and listings that inform decision-making. This role partners closely with clinical, translational, research stakeholders to deliver timely insights, conduct exploratory and ad hoc analyses, and deeply understand the medical and scientific questions underlying the data. The position requires strong programming expertise, data agility, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to work independently in a fast-moving biotech environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop, validate, and maintain high-quality Tables, Figures, and Listings (TFLs) to support ongoing clinical trials, interim analyses, and internal/external deliverables in compliance with study requirements and standards.
- Perform hands-on statistical programming and data manipulation to support planned and ad hoc analyses, addressing evolving clinical and scientific questions.
- Independently explore and interrogate clinical trial data to identify trends, anomalies, and insights that support clinical interpretation and decision-making.
- Collaborate closely with Biostatistics, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Data Management, Translational research and Medical teams to ensure alignment of analyses with protocol objectives and clinical intent.
- Apply a strong understanding of therapeutic area, disease biology, and clinical endpoints to translate data into meaningful scientific insights.
- Contribute to analysis datasets, program specifications, programming documentation, and quality control activities in accordance with internal standards and regulatory expectations.
- Support process improvement initiatives, including enhancing programming efficiency, standardization, and reproducibility across studies and programs.
- This role operates with a high degree of