Director, Data Architecture & Analytics

Your role:

As the Director of Data Architecture & Analytics you will take ownership of developing the Data and Business Intelligence functions across the company and driving a long-term data analytics strategy. There will be scope to set the future data strategy for all of the businesses within the organisation.

You will work at the crossroads of Commercial (Sales, Medical & Marketing), finance, HR, and business operations, with a clear mission: design and build a data architecture ecosystem that empowers advanced decision-making. Starting from basic data aggregation and reporting, you will lead your team (initially external and. in time, internal) in answering the ‘what’ questions, and then rapidly progressing towards uncovering the ‘why’ and ultimately building a toolset to enable predictive analytics across the organisation.

Your responsibilities:

• Data architecture:identify how we design, build and maintain a scalable data architecture to support reporting and analytics across the organisation.This should include data ingestion across multiple applications, data normalization that drives an analytics and visualization capability across business functions to enable real time (or near) decision making.
• Data Warehousing:lead the development and implementation of ETL processes from internal and external data sources to build a proprietary data repository.
• Build analytics capability: Develop an enterprise wide analytics capability (through external and in time internal resources) comprising data engineers, analysts and build the skills and expertise to support the organisational business growth plans.
• Run analytics:Partner with business functions (i.e. Commercial, Medical Affairs, Finance, HR) to analyze various internal and external datasets to provide business insights and actionable recommendations.
• Data visualization/Dashboarding: enable organisation to develop skills in creation and utilization of data visualizations and enable effective decision making.

Your skills and experience:

Professional experience:

• Proven experience in Data Architecture and Analytics with demonstrable experience in the healthcare industry.

Technical skills:

• Strong expertise in Data warehousing, Data Cleansing & Data Management concepts; Analytics, Visualization and dashboarding technologies (notably PowerBI); Applying artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of programming techniques related to data queries.
• Broad understanding of pharmaceutical business processes – R&D through to Commercialization.
• Versed in the pharmaceutical industry practices and regulations and their applicability to business analytics.
• Proficient in researching and identifying new tools and techniques to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Education:

• University Degree in business, computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Masters Degree or data analytics degree a plus.

Soft skills:

• Entrepreneurial and strategic thinking to define the strategy for Data Architecture across the company to enable utilization of data to support business decisionmaking.
• Analytical and communication abilities to create and align IT plans with the business objectives.
• Ability to deliver IT services with effective project management.
• Experience in managing IT services ensuring availability, stability, effective problem resolution, and an outstanding user experience.
• Lean thinking capable of driving process simplicity throughout the organisation by leveraging technology solutions.
• Able to develop strong relationships with complex customer groups/ to understand business strategy, future direction, changes and needs and opportunities to deliver value adding solutions.
• Ability to understand market trends in data architecture and analytics and leverage best for breed approaches to technology strategy.
• Ability to create new and/or leverage existing relationships with technology providers to collaborate together in defining the strategy and execution.
• Ability to master complexity, decomposing large complex problems into manageable components– help build skills within IT Business Applications & Corporate Systems team.
• Fluent English; with conversational Japanese.

Fantastic benefits on offer include:

• State-of-the-art R&D centre located in the heart of the Cambridge sciencecluster.
• Competitive compensation package including discretionary bonuses.
• 25 days annual leave in addition to public holidays.
• Employer contribution to pension.
• Private Medical Insurance and a cash plan for dental and optical reimbursement.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including a subsidised individual gym membership.
• Income protection to cover long-term absences due to ill health.
• Group Death in Service equal to 4x basic annual salary.

About Nxera:

Nxera Pharma (formerly Sosei Heptares) is a technology powered biopharma company, in pursuit of new speciality medicines to improve the lives of patients with unmet needs globally.

Nxera employs over 350 talented people at key locations in Tokyo and Osaka (Japan), London and Cambridge (UK), Basel (Switzerland) and Seoul (South Korea) and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker: 4565).

In addition to several products being commercialized in Japan, we are advancing an extensive pipeline of over 30 active programs from discovery through to late clinical stage internally and in partnership with leading pharma and biotech companies including Lilly, GSK, AbbVie, Verily, Neurocrine, Takeda, Genentech/Roche, Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Medicxi, Aditum Bio.

This pipeline is focused on addressing major unmet needs in some of the fastest-growing areas of medicine across CNS, GI and immunology, metabolic disorders and rare diseases, and leverages the power of our unique and industry leading GPCR-targeted structure-based drug discovery “NxWave” platform to provide a sustainable source of best- or first-in-class candidates.

In Cambridge UK, we have built outstanding capabilities across our platform, discovery and translational medicine teams, to advance multiple programs from pre-clinical through to early clinical development.

In Tokyo, our expert teams are dedicated to late-stage development (Ph 2/3) and innovative commercialization/ go-to-market approaches.

Our Mission

• To accelerate the development of life-changing medicines, by investing in science and technology.

Our Vision

• To lead the next era of medicine. From Japan, for Japan, and the world.

Our Values

• Patients, carers, families, and physicians come first
• Innovation and teamwork inspire success
• Focus on top priorities where we can make a difference
• Speed and agility of decision-making
• Operational excellence

We are passionate about improving the quality of life and health of people around the world and believe we can achieve our mission through providing a supportive, motivational, and empowering environment for employees.

We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment that considers your individual needs and believes in maintaining a sustainable work-life balance.

You will be welcomed by a team of colleagues with decades of accumulated experience in their areas of expertise, happy to help you develop your own skills in a highly collaborative environment and who are keen to provide guidance and support in your personal and career development plans.

For more information, please visit:www.nxera.life

How to apply?Please send your CV and Cover letter to Sav Bassi at.

Note to Agencies: We have a preferred supplier whom we will use if needed; please do not contact us about this role.