What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Foundations Lead position at UCB?
Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a Data Foundations Lead who is driven by impact, agile and an excellent communicator to join our Advanced Analytics team, based in our headquarters in Brussels, Belgium or in one of our offices in Monheim, Germany, in Slough, United Kingdom or in Atlanta, United-States.
About the role
As the Data Foundations Lead, you will play a crucial role in creating outstanding foundational support for our global data science team and executing real world data strategy to enable data-driven actionable insights from advanced analytics, thereby creating high impact patient value.
This role is responsible for creating a foundation that enables impact through ensuring optimal access to data, tools and pipelines for our data scientists while deeply understanding available real world data sources to optimize our acquisition and onboarding of them. The Data Foundations Lead will implement strategy for the appropriate use of data assets for the team and the design/ implementation of key analytics tools and foundational support for the team’s data scientists.
Who you’ll work with
Under the direction of the Data Strategy and Foundations Head, you will collaborate closely with key business unit stakeholders, IT, the global data office and the advanced analytics team to ensure the vision is maintained across functions.
What you’ll do
- Enable data usage and access for Advance Analytics/AI to generate routine and ad hoc actionable insights
- Identify and integrate primary market research results with data analytics
- Advise data scientists on appropriate data source usage
- Coordinate with business and IT partners to operationalize successful analytical experiments
- Manage data across the portfolio of advanced analytics projects
- Evolve the adoption and usage of secondary data and advanced analytics
Interested? For this role we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills
- Minimum 7 years of experience working with various forms of pharmaceutical data
- Minimum 7 years of experience partnering to create an exceptional user experience for data access
- Strong creativity in piecing together disparate data sets to solve business questions
- Expertise in understanding the sourcing, collection, and use applications of a range of large, secondary transactional databases
- Agile mindset with the ability to tailor communication style to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!
About us
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.
Why work for us?
At UCB, we don’t just complete tasks, we create value. We aren’t afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected and has equitable opportunities to do their best work. We ‘go beyond’ to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that’s on our patients, our employees or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.
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UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race/colour/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity.
