-Understands complex and critical business problems
from a variety of stakeholders and business functions, formulate
integrated analytical approach to mine data sources, employ
statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to contribute
solving unmet medical needs, discover actionable insights and
automate process for reducing effort and time for repeated use. To
manage the definition, implementation and adherence to the overall
data lifecycle of enterprise data from data acquisition or creation
through enrichment, consumption, retention, and retirement,
enabling the availability of useful, clean, and accurate data
throughout its useful lifecycle. High agility to be able to work
across various business domains. Integrate business presentations,
smart visualization tools and contextual storytelling to translate
findings back to business users with a clear impact. Independently
set strategy, manage budget, ensuring appropriate staffing and
coordinating projects within the area supervised. If managing a
team: empowers the team and provides guidance and coaching, with
limited guidance from more senior managers. About the Role Our
Development Team is guided by our purpose: to reimagine medicine to
improve and extend people’s lives. To do this, we are optimizing
and strengthening our processes and ways of working. We are
investing in new technologies and building specific therapeutic
area and platform depth and capabilities – all to bring our
medicines to patients even faster. We are seeking key talent, like
you, to join us and help give people with disease and their
families a brighter future to look forward to. Apply today and
welcome to where we thrive together! The Role As an Associate
Director Data Science in the Medical Affairs Advanced Quantitative
Sciences group, you will be responsible for the discussion and
implementation of data science methodologies applied to
patient-level data (including various clinical, real-world, and
biomarker data) across clinical development. You will combine your
data science and AI skills and your scientific knowledge in biology
or medicine to enrich drug development decisions in close
collaboration with internal and external partners. This role offers
hybrid working, requiring 3 days per week or 12 days per month in
our London Office. Key Accountabilities: 1. You will contribute to
planning, execution, interpretation, validation and communication
of innovative exploratory analyses and algorithms, to facilitate
internal decision making. 2. You will provide technical expertise
in data science and (predictive) machine learning/AI to identify
opportunities for influencing internal decision making as well as
discussions on white papers/regulatory policy. 3. You will perform
hands-on analysis of integrated data from clinical trials and the
real world to generate fit-for-purpose evidence that is applied to
decision making in drug development programs. Your Experience 1.
Ph.D. in data science, biostatistics, or other quantitative field
(or equivalent). 2. More than 6 years experience in clinical drug
development with extensive exposure to clinical trials. 3. Strong
knowledge and understanding of statistical methods such as time to
event analysis, machine learning, meta-analysis, mixed effect
modeling, longitudinal modeling, Bayesian methods, variable
selection methods (e.g., lasso, elastic net, random forest), design
of clinical trials. 4. Strong programming skills in R and Python.
Demonstrated knowledge of data visualization, exploratory analysis,
and predictive modeling. 5. Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills (verbal and writing). 6. Ability to develop
and deliver clear and concise presentations for both internal and
external meetings in key decision-making situations. Why Novartis:
Helping people with disease and their families takes more than
innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate
people like you. Collaborating, supporting, and inspiring each
other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’
lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? Learn more.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: Novartis is committed to
building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse
teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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