Go-to-Market Data Scientist Lead

Make your mark for patients

To strengthen our Global Advanced Analytics team we are looking for an adaptable collaborative individual with an intrapreneurial mindset for our Go-to-Market Data Scientist Lead opening.The Go-to-Market domain encompasses the commercial medical and market access facets of the business. This hybrid role is based in our Atlanta GA Raleigh NC or Boston MA offices in the United States and requires 40% onsite presence. Relocation assistance is available.

About the role
You will be responsible for making exceptional business impact with the use of secondary data and insights development through advanced analytics methods enabling an increased use of data and where applicable reducing the necessity for building primary data. You will also be responsible for managing and implementing advanced analytics/AI projects to ensure successful delivery. You will oversee the ongoing operations of advanced analytics solutions to ensure that models continue to work and scale them up with additional demand and applications. You will serve as the subject matter expert for Advanced Analytics/AI capabilities in support of business needs.

Who youll work with
You will work with the Global Advanced Analytics Team Leads US and Global Go-to-Market Teams Integrated Insights Hub Leads as well as business stakeholders in the Patient Value Units. Externally you will work with payors and analytics vendors that support data science projects. The mission of this role is to deliver data-driven actionable insights from advanced analytics that create high impact patient value.

What youll do

• Analytics Leadership: 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
• Deliverthe 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
• Partnership and Collaboration: 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. Ensure tight relationships and collaboration with IT Data Office and other Analytics teams using relevant data sources
• Team Leadership. 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
• Drive the execution of regional and local data-driven insights research and data analytics plans and priorities
• Foster a strong data science community with significant business acumen and communication skills across Hubs and EngineSupervise the conduct of advanced analytics studies in a collaborative manner ensuring that the study methodology is appropriate to deliver reliable results.
• Improve the teams partnership with and impact on key internal (UCB) and external stakeholders within the specific area of focus by:
  • developing and executing a communication and collaboration plan with key UCB stakeholders
  • increasing personal and the Advanced Analytics teams knowledge of the business by ensuring that she/he and each team member has direct interaction with patients and/or other external stakeholders
• Attract retain motivate and develop key talent for the Advanced Analytics team; coach and develop team members
• Drive deep partnership with the Hub insights team and other fellow Engines and insights generating functions (e.g. regional analytics teams) allowing for a joined delivery of cross-functional deep impactful insights
• Be a champion for a data-driven decision-making culture

Interested For this role were looking for the following education experience and skills

Minimum Experience/Skills Required:

• Bachelors degree in quantitative area is preferred
• Minimum of 8 years experience 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
• Minimum of 8 years of experience developing program/project plans and leading programs/projects from initiation to implementation is required
• Minimum of 8 years of experience with programming and application development using Python or R is prefrered

Preferred Experience/Skills:

• Master/Doctors degree in quantitative area is preferred
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry ideally specialty pharma and biologic treatments
• Deep expertise in leveraging data science methodologies within the Go-to-Market sphere of the pharmaceutical industry. The Go-to-Market domain encompasses the commercial medical and market access facets of the business
• Expertise in analyzing a range of large secondary transactional databases unstructured data or other computationally difficult challengesMastering project management skills is required
• You are a structured problem solver
• Possess an 80/20 mindset to push for fast model iterationsYou must also be able to interpret model results and identify potential model errors (e.g. overfitting model bias correlation vs causation)
• Global role so willingness and flexibility to work across geographies / time zones (sometimes outside of core hours)

This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $148000 - $194300 per year. The actual salary offered will take into account internal equity and may also vary depending on the candidates geographic region job-related knowledge skills and experience among other factors.

Are you ready to go beyond to create value and make your mark for patients If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you!

About us
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8500 people in all four corners of the globe inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us
At UCB we dont just complete tasks we create value. We arent afraid to push forward collaborate and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring supportive culture where everyone feels included respected and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We go beyond to create value for our patients and always with a human focus whether thats on our patients our employees or our planet. Working for us you will discover a place where you can grow and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

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