Degree in Computer Engineering
Degree in Operational Research
We are looking for an experienced Data Science director to join our Oncology Competitive Intelligence (CI) team within Oncology R&D. This role will be part of a multi-functional agile team and will provide strategic and technical leadership in building predictive and prescriptive analytic solutions to support AZ’s oncology strategy, specifically in the early development areas involving antibody drug conjugates, Cell therapy, T-cell engagers and other novel platforms. The candidate needs to be a dependable teammate with strong hands-on analytics experience, drive, and curiosity. You know how to rise above the numbers and explain the essential insights to users at all levels including R&D Scientists, business professionals, analysts, IT development teams and senior executives. You simplify and distill business complexity into testable hypotheses and scalable solutions. While you are well versed in a plethora of advanced modelling techniques, you are able to identify the technique optimal for the task at hand based on the business requirements, your knowledge of the data and the technique’s assumptions, interpretability and robustness. You ask good questions, are continually learning as well as finding opportunities to share knowledge with others.
The CI Data Science Senior Director will oversee a varied and changing portfolio of data projects, playing a key leadership role alongside other functional stakeholders in discovery, translational and strategy teams to apply data science methods to inform tumor strategy. This role will be involved in stakeholder engagement and management, solution design discussions, leadership, mentoring and service engagement with the Oncology R&D competitive intelligence and strategy leads. This role will track and plan incorporation of new data science technology to the business processes within Competitive Intelligence.
You will join a team that has a history of delivering key insights to senior decision makers. We have ongoing work that is looking at optimizing the data processes and analysis that goes into creating and delivering these key insights. This role will be involved in projects that work across multiple delivery streams at any one time to help deliver these key insights.
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AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with its headquarters at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridge, England. It has a portfolio of products for major diseases in areas including oncology, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory, and inflammation. It has been involved in developing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Cambridge, UK
2-4 year
Macclesfield, UK
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Macclesfield, UK
2-4 year
Royston, England, UK
2-4 year
Durham, NC, USA
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Durham, NC, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
Gothenburg, Sweden
2-4 year
South San Francisco, CA, USA
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Waltham, MA, USA
2-4 year
Waltham, MA, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Wilmington, DE, USA
2-4 year
Macclesfield, UK
2-4 year
Cambridge, UK
2-4 year