Manager Data Science - Job Opportunity at Novartis

Company Name: Novartis

Job Overview

Are you passionate about using data to drive impactful business solutions? Join us at Novartis as a Manager of Data Science and contribute to building analytical solutions that support our internal business initiatives. Collaborate with data scientists and business leads to tackle complex analytics problems and document results. Facilitate data-driven decision-making by delivering both qualitative and quantitative analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with clients to understand their business needs and provide strategic solutions.
• Translate business questions into analytical problems, developing solutions using visualization techniques, machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling.
• Innovate data management techniques and develop new algorithms and methods to provide insights into structured and unstructured data.
• Rapidly learn and pilot new tools, data sources, and analytical techniques to address critical business problems.
• Provide actionable business intelligence to key stakeholders by applying advanced data analysis and predictive modeling techniques.
• Create powerful visualizations to convey insights.
• Collaborate across functions to deliver complex data science/analytics solutions.
• Ensure compliance with internal procedures like time tracking, KPI tracking, and reporting.
• Engage closely with stakeholders to translate their priorities into actionable analytics and improvement initiatives.
• Develop meaningful metrics and KPIs to monitor supply chain performance.
• Participate in initiatives aimed at production efficiency, cost reduction, and operational excellence.
• Enhance client experience for analytics solutions through regular feedback and expectation management.

Role Requirements

Work Experience: 8-10 years of relevant experience in Advanced Analytics and Data Science. Proven track record of delivering global solutions at scale and a strong professional network across academia.

Technical Skills

• Data Management, including SQL databases.
• Expert level skills in Python.
• Predictive Modeling and knowledge of AWS, Azure for ML/AI applications.
• Proficiency in Machine Learning & Deep Learning algorithms.
• Experience with Big Data and Applied Mathematics.
• Information & Decision Theories.
• Data Visualization with PowerBI.

Soft Skills

• Strong Business Consulting abilities and Analytics Translation.
• Exceptional Stakeholder Management.
• Root Cause Analysis and Problem-Solving skills.
• Project Management.
• Ability to Collaborate across boundaries.
• Supply-Chain Management expertise.

Education: Graduate/Post Graduate in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations management, or Business management.

Desired Skills

• Business Networking and Scenario Planning.
• Change Control and Continual Improvement Process.
• Efficiency and Flexibility in Operations.
• General HSE Knowledge, including GDP, GMP.
• Inventory and Order Management, Procurement, Product Distribution.
• Risk Management and Supply Chain Planning.

Join us at Novartis and lead impactful data science projects that drive business success. Apply now to become our new Manager of Data Science!