Director Biostatistics and Informatics - Discovery Sciences
Director Biostatistics and Informatics - Discovery Sciences
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Job Description
Are you motivated by using your data science skills to drive biological insights and are seeking a role where your expertise can make an extraordinary impact This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and enthusiastic environment whilst delivering critical support to drug discovery projects.
Join a place built on innovation and creativity. We harness digital data science & AI to fastforward our research. Making sure work born in a lab can make a real difference. Every day impacting patients lives across the world.
As a Director Biostatistics and Informatics youll be part of the Data Sciences & Quantitative Biology department within Discovery Sciences a global diverse and delivery focused department where we collaborate to support drug projects aiming to impact patients lives. In partnership with our experimentalist colleagues and other data scientists we provide computational analysis and solutions to enable and enhance output from our technical platforms driving our drug discovery efforts. The role is based at our site in Gothenburg Sweden.
What youll do
You will lead mentor and develop the team and collaborate across functions to evolve our computational approaches and their drug discovery applications to drive impact and deepen scientific excellence. We will rely on you to initiate and lead both internal and external collaborations and partnerships to ensure that we are at the cutting edge of technology and innovation.
We truly believe that everyone contributes with a unique set of competence. Your curiosity and passion for personal development combined with support from colleagues mentors and leaders will ensure you maximise your potential and contribution building from your current skills abilities and experience.
Essential for the role
Our team is a highly collaborative group of scientists working in a constantly evolving technical and scientific landscape. Therefore youll have to be comfortable working at a fast pace with a teamfocused approach. You have excellent communication skills and a proactive and deliveryfocused approach.
Regardless of your current level of leadership experience youre passionate about supporting your staff and wider colleagues development as well as driving your own personal development and maximising your teams and individual contribution to drug discovery.
You also have:
PhD or equivalent in bioinformatics mathematics computer science statistics engineering or the life sciences
Expertise in omics particularly NGS based technologies
Expertise in biostatistics including Frequentist statistics Bayesian statistics and Design of Experiments
Indepth experience with drug discovery and AZ R&D disease area priorities and proven experience with impacting drug discovery projects across multiple disease areas.
Indepth experience with delivering statistical solutions to early drug discovery
Indepth experience of manipulating and analysing large high dimensionality unstructured datasets drawing conclusions defining recommended actions and reporting results across stakeholders
Excellent written and verbal communication business analysis and consultancy skills
Experience in a complex global organization
A track record of people leadership
Desirable for the role
Comfortable working in high performance computing or cloud environment
Proven track record of publishing relevant results and tools in peerreviewed journals conferences and other scientific proceedings.
Experience in novel methods development and application
Experience in influencing and controlling budgets
The successful candidate can operate effectively in a multidisciplinary research environment. You enjoy teamwork have a collaborative nature and will be an encouraging colleague to all.
Whats next
If this sound like the position and place for you apply today!
We look forward to receiving your application but no later than May 11 2025. The interview process will be ongoing do not hesitate to apply early.
More information:
For more information about the position please contact the hiring manager Natalie van Zuydam
Additional information
Our Gothenburg site: in Gothenburg: AstraZeneca R&D: Posted
Closing Date
11maj2025Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations please complete the section in the application form.Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
