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US Data Scientist

GSK
Research Triangle Park, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 10/11/2021 CLOSED ON 4/14/2022

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Site Name: USA - North Carolina - Research Triangle Park, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Posted Date: Oct 12 2021

As a GSK Global Commercial Data Scientist, you will lead and collaborate with others in GSK in discovery, development, scaling code based statically modeling, machine learning or artificial intelligence capabilities to be leveraged by global business units and local markets.

The primary focus of your efforts will be on streamline strategic decision information, uncover new opportunities and automate the commercial execution ensure last mile value. You will be working on fully up to date technologies in the Data & Analytics environment and in a team, which is fully committed to remain at the leading edge of this skill set. Therefore, the impetus to keep improving skills and acquiring skill sets in new technologies will be very strong.

This is very hands-on development role which includes developing & delivering code and models through from origin to production, plus working in partnership with 3rd party development service providers to help ensure that code comes in on time, to quality and in line with the overall ecosystem being established.

The Data Scientist will directly contribute to the extensive and varied build and deployment activities involved in establishing the new model and machine learning capabilities.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

  • Partner with leaders from across the business to translate the company's business objectives, market opportunities & portfolio of offerings into a formal, cohesive global commercial strategy
  • Apply a broad array of analytics skills including machine learning, statistics, text-mining/NLP, and modeling to extract insights from structured and unstructured data sources and complementary real-world & digital information streams to business challenges
  • Developing and evolving core commercial models used across all analytics packages. Examples of the models will be: Multi-Channel Analytics, Patient Pathways, Omni-Channel Segmentation, Territory Design, Customer Targeting, Attribution Modeling, & Predictive Commercial Mix
  • Design data test and learn experiments to drive personalized solutions across the customer journeys addressing key customer needs as well as enabling personalized experiences across each touch points through connective analytics
  • Forward looking: Remain flexible towards technology approaches to ensure that the best advantage is being taken of new technologies. Keep abreast of industry developments in analytics and be able to interpret how these would impact services and present new opportunities.
  • Collaborate across business to prototype, launch and Iterate analytics capabilities that quickly scale globally
  • Lead the development and implementation measurement planning aligning to strategy
  • Lead the collaborate with local and global teams to ensure data driven decisions are embedded into business process.
  • Automate analytics models and simplify information management
  • Consult with markets, regions, and leadership on defining the business questions to apply to be answered with analytic and then pulled through for measured value.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

  • Bachelor's degree/ Master's degree
  • 7-9 years as a Developer in the mathematical modeling, machine learning, optimization and strong coding practices

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

  • Hands on experience using Apache Spark, Python, R, SQL and Data Visualization tools
  • Experience or understanding of end to end software tool/solution development and life cycle management
  • Ability to simplify the complex with a product development mindset
  • Formalizing problems
  • Story telling
  • Intellectual Curiosity
  • Applied digital marketing, sales, or customer analytics
  • Knowledge of the data landscape in healthcare (EHR, claims data, real world data, HEOR data)
  • Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, or consulting
  • Fully conversant with big-data processing approaches and “schema-on-read” methodologies is a must and knowledge of Azure Data Factory/DataBricks/Azure Data Lake/Azure DW/Analysis Services is highly preferred. Understanding AWS and GCP cloud platforms is a plus.
  • Self-starter who is comfortable working independently and focused on delivering value quickly

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

  • Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.

  • Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

  • Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.

  • Sustaining energy and well-being

  • Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.

  • Budgeting and cost-consciousness

If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or 1 801 567 5155 (outside US).

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

At GSK, the health and safety of our employees are of paramount importance. As a science-led healthcare company on a mission to get ahead of disease together, we believe that supporting vaccination against COVID-19 is the single best thing we can do in the US to ensure the health and safety of our employees, complementary workers, workplaces, customers, consumers, communities, and the patients we serve. 

GSK has made the decision to require all US employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, where allowed by state or local law and where vaccine supply is readily available. The only exceptions to this requirement are employees who are approved for an accommodation for religious, medical or disability-related reasons.

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Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK’s Transparency Reporting For the Record site.

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