Analytics Lead

Make your mark for patients

To strengthen ourGlobal Advanced Analyticsteam we are looking for anadaptable collaborative individual with an intrapreneurial mindsetfor ourData Science Lead opening. This hybrid role is based in our Atlanta GA Raleigh NC or Boston MA offices requiring 40% onsite presence.

About the role
You will help to inform on the commercial viability of various assets in development. 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 within Patient Solutions and Patient Evidence.

Who youll work with
You will co-create with Integrated Insights Leads from early asset and late stage (Phase 0-3) teams Real world evidence teams Translational Medicine and Bioinformatics Clinical operations clinical recruitment and asset teams new product planning teams Commercial teams Medical Affairs Market Access Finance and IT. Externally you will work with data and analytics vendors and partners.

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 functional stakeholders and co-create plans and priorities for data and advanced analytics with them together with the Patient Solutions and Evidence 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 executionof regional and local data-driven insights research and data analytics plans and priorities
• Fostera strong data science community with significant business acumen and communication skills across Hubs and Engine and Supervise the conduct of advanced analytics studies in a collaborative manner ensuring that the study methodology is appropriate to deliver reliable results.
• Improvethe 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
• Drivedeep 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
• Bea 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
• Minimum of 8-10 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 8-10 years of experience developing program/project plans and leading programs/projects from initiation to implementation is required
• At least 8 years of experience working with real world data (Claims data EMR IQVIA -omics etc)
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience with programming and application development using Python or R is preferred

Preferred Experience/Skills:

• Master/Doctors degree in quantitative area
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry ideally specialty pharma and biologic treatments
• Deep expertise in leveraging data science methodologies within the Research and Development and Clinical trials 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 challenges
• You are a structured problem solver
• Possess an 80/20 mindset to push for fast model iterations
• 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 over 9.000 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.

At UCB weve embraced a hybrid-first approach to work bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless explicitly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment your employment with UCB or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws orders and regulations.

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