Open Pharmacometrician Position - 1 Year contract (m/f)

Merck is seeking one creative, motivated Pharmacometrician to join its Pharmacometric team at Darmstadt headquarter (Germany) or Lausanne (Switzerland) for a one-year fixed term contract. To apply please visit the careers pages on https://www.merckgroup.com/en/careers/jobs/174784. A career at Merck is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 50,000 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in healthcare, life science and performance materials. For 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others. Your role: The Pharmacometrician will support model informed drug development within Merck Quantitative Pharmacology department. She/He will plan, design, execute or outsource, present, report PK/PD M&S-analysis within allocated projects in close collaboration with the clinical team. Since the position is a replacement for a one-year fixed term contract, it is expected that the candidate would already have accumulated some experience. The position is located either in Lausanne, Switzerland, or Frankfurt area, Germany. Who you are: * PhD in pharmacometric, quantitative pharmacology; MD or PharmD in Clinical Pharma Science with Pharmacometry experience. * 4+ years of experience in population PK/PD M&S in academia, with at least 1 year in pharmaceutical industry. * Expertise in NONMEM and R libraries (nlmixr, PFIM, ggplot, shinny, Rmarkdown, etc). * Experience in designing, interpreting reporting population PK/PD models. * Experience with Monolix, DDMORE, PsN, Pirana, Xpose, WinBUGS, and Stan would be an asset. * Team player in a matrix organization, fluent in written and oral English. What we offer: At Merck, there are always opportunities to break new ground. We empower you to fulfil your ambitions, and our diverse businesses offer various career moves to seek new horizons. We trust you with responsibility early on and support you to draw your own career map that is responsive to your aspirations and priorities in life. Join us and bring your curiosity to life! Curious? Apply and find more information at http://www.come2merck.com with Req ID 174814. With best regards, Akash Khandelwal, Associate Director, Local Head of Pharmacometry (Darmstadt) Pascal Girard, Senior Scientific Director, Global Head of Pharmacometry This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message and any attachment from your system. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and any of its subsidiaries do not accept liability for any omissions or errors in this message which may arise as a result of E-Mail-transmission or for damages resulting from any unauthorized changes of the content of this message and any attachment thereto. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and any of its subsidiaries do not guarantee that this message is free of viruses and does not accept liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted therewith. Click http://www.merckgroup.com/disclaimer to access the German, French, Spanish and Portuguese versions of this disclaimer.