Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company focusing on neurology and immunology. The Global Advanced Analytics Lead will inform the commercial viability of assets in development through secondary data, advanced analytics, and AI, while managing projects and overseeing analytics solutions. The role also leads collaboration, data-driven insights, mentoring, and business impact across internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Deliver the 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 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 Engine and Supervise the conduct of advanced analytics studies in a collaborative manner ensuring that the study methodology is appropriate to deliver reliable results
- Improve the team’s 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 team’s 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
Skills
- • Bachelor's 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
- • 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)
- • Master/Doctor's degree in quantitative area
Benefits
- This hybrid role is based in our Atlanta, GA, Raleigh, NC or Boston, MA offices, requiring 40% onsite presence. This role can be hybrid (40% on site precence in Atlanta, Raleigh or Boston) or Remote (up to 20% onsite presence)
- At UCB, we’ve 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.
- A caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work.
- 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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