Associate Director Data Science

Key Skills

Algorithms, JavaScript, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, Qlik Sense, R Programming, SAS, SQL

Job Description

Bringing life-changing medicines to millions of people, Novartis sits at the intersection of cutting-edge medical science and innovative digital technology. As a global company, the resources and opportunities for growth and development are plentiful including global and local cross functional careers, a diverse learning suite of thousands of programs & an in-house marketplace for rotations & project work. With a strong medicines pipeline our current transformation will not just deliver growth for our business but continue to allow us to bring innovative medicines to patients quickly.

Your responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Understands complex and critical business problems from a variety of stakeholders and business functions, formulate integrated analytical approach to mine data sources, employ appropriate statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to contribute solving unmet needs, discover actionable insights and automate process for reducing effort and time for repeated use.
• Ability to scope projects in partnership with stakeholders, manage projects with timeliness and quality deliverables.
• Translate the business problem into an analytical problem, define the analytical solution architecture, find patterns through integrated analytical approach to mine different data elements & sources.
• Ability to design solution using the existing enterprise technology landscape and employ statistical /machine learning algorithms to solve business problem.
• Initiate and drive projects from conception to completion with low/minimal guidance.
• Design analytical solution using the existing enterprise technology landscape and employ statistical /machine learning algorithms to solve business problem.
• Innovates and recommends advanced predictive analytics, computational science, Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning and deep learning techniques to answer research questions and synthesize insights that achieve business objectives.
• Collaborate in multi-functional teams to evaluate business activities, and then develop innovative and effective approaches to tackle team’s analytics problems and communicate results and methodologies.

Diversity and Inclusion

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Minimum Requirements

• 13+ years of relevant experience in Data Science with hands-on experience working in tools like Python, R, SAS
• Knowledge of database structure, analytical tools and technology, visualization tools like QlikSense, system integration
• problems using machine learning algorithms, and large data analysis. for an integrated solution over and above the experience of Data Science tools stack. Hands-on experience of SQL queries
• Hands-on experience in solving business

Why Novartis?

766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.

We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!

Accessibility and accommodation

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your mess

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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