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Role and Responsibilities:
Director, OBU Commercial Data Science & AI (2 Roles) is a leader in the Commercial Data Science & AI team whose mission is to take a patient-centric, data-driven approach to personalize and transform healthcare delivery to the millions of patients along with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians who care for them. This responsibility involves working closely with cross-functional Science, Medical, and Business leaders to identify, prioritize, and develop DS & AI Products and solutions across AZ Bio Oncology Commercial Business Unit (OBU)
The scope of this role is Global, serving all the markets where AstraZeneca's life-changing medicines are approved to help patients live longer and realize AZ's bold ambition of eliminating Cancer as a cause of death.
Role accountabilities:
Be a thought leader in Data Science, building and supporting new capabilities. Develop awareness, understanding, and adoption of Data Science solutions across US Commercial Leadership Team.
Prioritize data science workstreams across multiple therapeutic areas and support long term planning to ensure effective delivery of data science products to meet critical business needs across an expanding oncology portfolio.
Provide technical leadership to ensure that appropriate data science solutions are being leveraged to solve address complex business questions. Ensure these techniques are industry leading and appropriate for downstream applications and business actioning.
Collaborate closely with other business functions: Insights and Analytics, Medical, Marketing, Sales to ensure data science techniques applied to patient level data result in meaningful and actionable outcomes for the business.
Help develop and support data science solutions that achieve our omnichannel ambition and overall promotional effectiveness. This includes partnering closely with team members that support omnichannel initiatives to deliver promotional mix analysis, next-best-action suggestions, and field & digital integration.
Support the regular assessment of data sources and other external vendors that can offer innovative solutions to elevate delivery of data science products to the business
5+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience working for a biopharmaceutical company or other relevant industry (e.g., management consulting, market research, investment banking)
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, to build and develop cross-functional relationships with team members
Successful track record of leading teams from a position of support and enablement; can influence both leaders and peers, and is able to make impactful decisions and take appropriate risks where needed
Experience leading large scale end-to-end data science projects with demonstrated success in improving business outcomes
Documented experience with multiple data science techniques such as supervised and unsupervised ML modeling to solve classification, regression or other predictive analytics problems using appropriate tools (R, Python, SQL etc.).
Able to analyze, manipulate, and modeling data (S3, Athena, SageMaker, Git, etc.)
Knowledge of secondary patient-level data sources including claims, EMR, GPO or other relevant pharmaceutical data
Preferred Requirement:
Advanced Marketing Degree (e.g., MD, MBA, PhD or MS)
3+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience working for a biopharmaceutical company or other relevant industry (e.g., management consulting, market research, investment banking)
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