The Go-to-Market Data Scientist Lead role at UCB aims to leverage secondary data and advanced analytics to generate insights that drive business impact, particularly in the commercial, medical, and market access facets. The goal is to increase data utilization and potentially reduce the need for primary data collection, ultimately creating high-impact patient value.
Requirements
- applying predictive modeling techniques such as ML, decision trees, ensemble learning, neural networks etc, and data transformation such as data cleansing and integration, fuzzy matching, etc., is required
- developing program/project plans and leading programs/projects from initiation to implementation is required
- programming and application development using Python or R is prefrered
- Deep expertise in leveraging data science methodologies within the Go-to-Market sphere of the pharmaceutical industry.
- Expertise in analyzing a range of large, secondary transactional databases, unstructured data or other computationally difficult challenges
- Mastering project management skills is required
- You must also be able to interpret model results and identify potential model errors (e.g., overfitting, model bias, correlation vs causation)
Responsibilities
- making exceptional business impact with the use of secondary data and insights development through advanced analytics methods
- managing and implementing advanced analytics/AI projects to ensure successful delivery
- oversee the ongoing operations of advanced analytics solutions to ensure that models continue to work and scale them up with additional demand and applications
- Serve as the subject matter expert for Advanced Analytics/AI capabilities in support of business needs
- Provide clear expertise for opportunities to leverage advanced analytics, especially where they are advantageous to reducing the need for primary data or have high marginal impact
- Deliver the most impactful data and analytics projects that: address the most compelling business questions, and/or identify new opportunities for patients and UCB through effective visual displays of quantitative and qualitative information
- Supervise the conduct of advanced analytics studies in a collaborative manner ensuring that the study methodology is appropriate to deliver reliable results.
Other
- adaptable, collaborative individual with an intrapreneurial mindset
- 40% onsite presence
- Relocation assistance is available.
- Be the key strategic partner for the Go-to-Market or functional stakeholders and co-create plans and priorities for data and advanced analytics with them together with the Go-To-Market Hub Leads.
- Serve as a mentor and guide to more junior data scientists and translators in demonstrating the application of cutting-edge analytics, clear communication and presentation of insights and practical/pragmatic implementation of key recommendations
- Global role, so willingness and flexibility to work across geographies / time zones (sometimes outside of core hours)
- You are a structured problem solver
- Possess an 80/20 mindset to push for fast model iterations
