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Data Scientist I - Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions - Advanced Analytics

Employer
Novo Nordisk
Location
Plainsboro, NJ
Start date
Aug 8, 2024

Job Details

About the Department 

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

 

The Position

As a member of the Advanced Analytics & Innovation team, collaborates with team members and other CI&A departments to deliver advanced data and analytics solutions to NNI Commercial Stakeholders, to the benefit of patients, prescribers and other stakeholders. Works across the CI&A organization, with stakeholders across the broader NNI organization and applicable consultants and partners, to implement advanced data and analytics solutions to critical business questions. Applies statistical and machine learning methods to deliver solutions leveraging internal and syndicated commercial datasets such as Xponent Plantrak, LAAD, Experian, Veeva, ICM and other. Collaborates with Novo Nordisk commercial functions to help measure and optimize promotional investments, inclusive of marketing mix, test & control, and promotional targeting related initiatives.

 

Relationships

Member of the Commercial Advanced Analytics & Innovation team within Commercial Insights & Analytics department, reporting to a Director-level manager (depending on specific assignment).

 

Internal relationships include directors and members of other CI&A teams, Commercial Operations, IT, Marketing brand leads, extended brand teams and other Marketing stakeholders, as well as other Finance & Operations stakeholders (Finance, PCOR, etc.). External relationships include secondary data vendors and consultants.

 

Senior-level (VP and higher) exposure through presentations on Marketing Mix and related topics.

 

Essential Functions

  • Collaborates with AA&I team members, other CI&A and/or F&O colleagues, and/or LoB stakeholders to define advanced analytics/ML opportunities, determine appropriate datasets and algorithms, identify patterns and formulate solutions, experiment and deliver analytics and models
  • Collaborate with internal and/or external resources (i.e., consultants and partner) to define and deliver innovative data and analytics solutions and services in response to business requirements and priorities. Areas of focus will include, but not be limited to: promotional impact analytics (incl. test vs. control, A/B testing, test-and-learn methodologies), patient analytics, HCP analytics, and related topics in support of our commercial and enabling functions
  • In collaboration with AA&I colleagues, IT, and external resources, support the development of infrastructure to support promotional impact assessment.  This includes development of more predictive/efficient modelling techniques, establishment of reusable data pipelines, building out of reusable code repository, and establishment of dashboard/PPT-based reporting infrastructure
  • Provide support for marketing investment/mix projects, inclusive of NN stakeholder engagement, collaboration with IT on data processing, project management support, data trend QC, development and delivery of presentations, etc.
  • Explores and evaluates new data driven approaches to generating insights and solutions to address business issues
  • Works with other CI&A team members, IT, and data engineers to acquire and transform datasets (e.g., NPP, LAAD) that deliver critical business insights. Defines and creates metrics that can be leveraged by CI&A analysts to deliver insights to their stakeholders
  • Applies skill in data science and statistical analysis in support of organization-wide projects and programs
  • Provides guidance and QC oversight to more junior team members, and colleagues in other CI&A areas in use and delivery of analytics and analytical tools
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    Physical Requirements

    Up to 10% overnight travel required.

     

    Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analytics, or related field required; MS or MBA preferred
  • Three (3) years relevant experience in ROI analytics, business analysis, sales analysis, forecasting, quantitative finance, data science or other related areas. Appropriate advanced educational background may be substituted for some experience
  • Required experience includes:
    • Proficient in two or more programming tools such as Python, R, SQL, Stata, etc., and demonstrated ability to learn new analytical and programming techniques 
    • Demonstrated experience analyzing and managing large, structured/unstructured datasets to generate insights is essential; experience with IQVIA datasets and other industry sources preferred
    • Experience with leading visualization tools, platforms, and capabilities highly desirable – e.g., Dataiku, Snowflake, Tableau, Qlilksense, etc.
    • Strong written and verbal communications skills; Willingness to develop written/verbal/presentation skills required
    • Ability to solve complex, unstructured problems with minimal supervision
    • Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required
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    We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

     

    At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

     

    Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

     

    If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

    Company

    Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 54,400 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. For more information visit novonordisk.com.

    Our US Research & Development hub, located in the Greater Boston area, brings together the best talent to drive life science innovation. Located in Lexington, Watertown and Cambridge, our teams reflect the full scope of R&D, from early research through late-stage clinical development. We are building for the future by creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. By combining the speed and agility of biotech with the quality, resources, and stability of a large pharmaceutical company, our US R&D hub will benefit from the best of both worlds to develop new medicines that meet the needs of patients.

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    02421
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