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WHO ARE WE:
Doing now what patients need next
We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigour, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.
We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world.
pRED CLINICAL OPERATIONS:
Our North Star is to increase R&D Productivity and Patient Centricity. This is supported by our CO Strategy to deliver value for pRED CO and our pRED portfolio. We aspire to be a leading edge Clinical Operations organisation that drives innovative patient-centric approaches in study design and execution, utilizes advanced analytics to drive data-driven decisions, and embeds innovative technologies into our ways of working to improve productivity delivery of programs and studies. We strive to create a workplace where team members own their own development and learning and are empowered to create and innovate.
ROLE PURPOSE:
As a Data Scientist in Clinical Operations, you act as a strategic thought partner to key stakeholders. You are the champion in organisational analytics learning, and ensure expertise continues to flourish and develop towards future business needs. You are responsible for creating and implementing analytics and insights for different customers in the Clinical Operations group and partnering closely with business leaders and end users to understand needs, build or leverage existing capabilities and develop study decision support solutions.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
●Increases the sophistication and application of advanced analytics methods (including predictive modelling, machine learning, and scalable prototypes) to measure and predict clinical trial performance and guide clinical program-level decisions efficiently and at the speed of business.
● Has a comprehensive understanding of the clinical operational data we work with and foster learning with colleagues using analytical tools and applications.
● Together with partners in business and IT, jointly designs, implements, and maintains efficient analytics tools and solutions for data-driven study decision support (SDS) in agile teams.
● Demonstrates customer-centric mind-set; proactively seeks to further improve our CO SDS landscape by contributing to projects and SDS solution development.
● Acts as thought partner and advisor to all relevant teams and stakeholders; Identifies evidence needs and recommends and supports implementing data solutions; e.g. jointly with IT partners.
● Applies analytical and statistical methods to answer a variety of business questions using multiple data sources and technical tools.
● Monitors and assesses the effectiveness of enrolment and engagement efforts, projects, and practices and identifies opportunities to optimise value of investments.
● Regularly assesses and adjusts priorities based on stakeholder feedback, organisational needs, and strategic relevance.
● Demonstrates strategic agility and ability to engage stakeholders to understand and diagnose Clinical Operations challenges and recommend appropriate courses of action.
● Acquires, aggregates and/or curates data and information to address clinical operations business needs.
● Conducts high quality analyses; plans for data processing, designs fit-for-purpose analysis plans, assesses effective ways of presenting and delivering the results to maximise impact and interpretability.
● Leverage generative AI to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, including automation of analyses and the generation of insights and documentations.
HOW YOU WILL DO IT:
In Clinical Operations Mindset and behaviour is as important to us as skills and capabilities Systems thinking
● Connect with the bigger picture, prioritize Roche, pRED or wider team over Function and individual, apply enterprise view
● Collaborative and creative mindset, ability to partner inside and outside Roche Show and embrace agile behaviour
● Follow a logic of incrementally improving approaches and solutions (80/20 approach where applicable/ MVPs/ iterate)
● Stand in the shoes of stakeholders and able to build strong customer relationships
● Ability to cope with uncertainty and manage ambiguity Empowerment and accountability
● Take ownership and accountability
● Empower people to contribute according to their skills, capacity and interest
● Decisions are made by the most appropriate person on the topic
● Foster a speak-up culture Demonstrate a growth mindset
● Give, seek and receive constructive feedback
● Openly and proactively share information, failure, ideas, experience and learnings with others
● Drive innovations and foster the power of experimentation Create value in an agile organization by increasing our focus on playing the role of Visionary, Architect, Coach and Catalyst
● As a visionary, you facilitate the creation of a bold, shared vision and higher purpose that is co-created with customers to advance a vision.
● As an Architect, you seek value creation across the whole organisation, shaping organisational architecture and culture.
● As a Coach you help everyone in the network build the skills and mindsets they need to succeed in an empowered system, acting as a role model and coach, with a willingness to be coached.
● As a Catalyst you help connect others' work to a collective purpose, creating connections and collaboration across the organisation.
WHO YOU ARE:
You are talented and passionate. You are inspired by our mission and would fit in well with our collaborative, patient centric and entrepreneurial spirit.
● You have proven work experience with with a Master's, preferably within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry (commercial or clinical) and/or management consulting
● Have sound experience in pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industry and drug development experience (therapeutic area experience a plus)
● You have a growth mindset, are excited about learning through experience, and thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly collaborative environments
● You have expertise in at least one of the following areas: Patient Insights, Investigator Insights, Forecasting, Competitive Intelligence, Data Analytics, Advanced Data Analytics, Resourcing, Information Visualization, and/or Data Science
● You are experienced in acting as a strategic thought partner to teams, using sophisticated techniques and tools to discover deeper insights, make predictions, or generate recommendations, and have an entrepreneurial mindset to transform the way we use data and analytics to enable decisions and hasten our delivery of medicines for our patients
● You possess solid generative AI literacy, including being capable of leveraging generative AI at a systems level—integrating APIs and prompt engineering—supported by a good knowledge of database systems (SQL and no-SQL) and related query languages.
● You are experienced in acting as a strategic thought partner, using excellent data visualization and mock-up skills (e.g., d3, plotly, Shiny, or Streamlit) to discover deeper insights and make predictions that hasten the delivery of medicines to our patients.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Welwyn. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
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