Technical Director (Scientific Innovation), AI and Computational Sciences (AICS)
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Job Location:
Basel - Switzerland
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
Novartis has embraced a bold strategy to drive a company-wide digital transformation. Our objective is to position Novartis as an industry leader by proactively adopting digital technologies that foster innovative approaches to hasten drug discovery and development. By utilizing both internal and external R&D data with the power of data science predictive models generative AI and machine learning our objective is to identify new targets create more effective therapeutic molecules better predict drug pharmacokinetics and safety risks refine clinical trial design and significantly shorten development cycles. The AICS team leads BR in exploring and applying advanced AI and ML methodologies to generate novel drug discovery insights and to speed and improve drug discovery efficiency whilst focusing on patients needs.AICS partners with drug discovery teams raises the level of AI expertise across Biomedical Research (BR) and ensures that BR science keeps up with the rapidly evolving ecosystem of AI technologies by connecting with AI leaders in academia and industry.
This role within the Scientific Innovation group of AICS will be tasked with providing functional leadership of a cross-functional group of scientists including AI experts and for the BR priority projects. Additionally the role would be expected to act as the SME liaison of AICS to BR Disease Areas (DAs) and Function Areas (FAs).
Job Description
Purpose of the role
Scientific Innovation Technical Director:
Lead a team of AI researchers and SME with core domain expertise in applying AI to multiomics disambiguation of gene-regulatory networks and genetics
Work with AI modelers to ensure models are robust and performant
Work with Engineering and Product Development resources to ensure delivery of AI solutions
Raise the awareness of AI applications to aid in answering key research questions across BR
Help position AI-aided drug discovery contributions to deliver and support progress of BRs portfolio enable new kinds of therapeutic discoveries shorten cycle times and increase efficiency.
Collaboration & partnership
Act as liaison of AICS for identification of research questions solution design and evangelism of results and impacts of AI across BR
Regularly communicate engage align with AICS teams broader data science community and senior scientists.
Initiate and lead key high-value internal collaborations across BR.
Help to design translatable metrics for AI models that will lead to tangible impact in collaboration with BR DAs and FAs.
What youll bring to the role:
10 years of significant experience in innovation development deployment and continuous support of Machine Learning data management and modeling
Specialization in multi-omics gene-regulatory networks perturbation models and the like
Expertise in bringing advanced analytics insights and actions to a large Research organization & deep understanding of Drug development
Passion for understanding emerging technologies with pragmatic insight into where those technologies can be integrated into business solutions
Ability to balance requirements manage expectations and drive effective results using a proactive attitude towards identifying and resolving issues
Entrepreneurial spirit with can-do pro-active attitude
Strong organizational problem-solving and influencing skills and demonstrated track record of exceptional teamwork
Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills
Ability to execute and prioritize well in a complex matrixed environment.
Functional leadership
Skills Desired
Applied Mathematics Artificial Intelligence (AI) Aws (Amazon Web Services) Big Data Building Construction Cloud Computing Computer Science Data Governance Data Literacy Data Management Data Quality Data Science Data Strategy Electrical Transformer Machine Learning (Ml) Master Data Management Professional Services Python (Programming Language) R (Programming Language) Random Forest Algorithm Statistical Analysis Time Series AnalysisRequired Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Invasive Cardiology
- Logistics Distribution
- Corporate Risk Management
- Field Marketing
- IT Sales
- Administration Support
About Company
Novartis is a global healthcare company based in Switzerland that provides solutions to the evolving needs of patients worldwide.
