Senior Data Scientist - Trial Operations Analytics

Senior Data Scientist – Trial Operations Analytics Grade 8 Location: Bangalore, India Would you like to join a GSK-wide community of data and analytics professionals, who are truly valued and appreciated for their knowledge and skills? Data and analytics professionals are critical to GSK’s success, performance, and the difference we can make to patients’ lives. The work you do will transform GSK, making sense of our untapped data sources to drive better business choices, make advanced analytics a competitive advantage for GSK, and secure better health outcomes for those who depend upon our medicines and innovation. This Trial Operations Analytics Senior Data Scientist role is an exciting opportunity to channel your passion for Innovation in the field of Statistics and Data Science to help shape the future of the Global Clinical Operations function and transform the way GSK uses data and quantitative thinking to drive decision-making in R&D. Global Clinical Operations is the single-largest functional group within the GSK Development organization, numbering approximately 2000 permanent people in the US, UK, Europe, and India. Our work ensures that the best and emerging practices for human subject research planning and execution are at the heart of R&D decision-making and enables scientists to make timely, data-driven choices about which potential new medicines and vaccines are most promising to add value for patients – ultimately making the development process more efficient and maximizing success. We are investing in growing our cutting-edge trial operational analytics capabilities by expanding the Digital, Analytics, and Performance team. An ideal candidate for this position is passionate about the application of advanced analytics and data science to address varied business problems. You will need to have a strong grounding in R and/or python and have experience leading value delivery through simple predictive modeling, tools, and applications. You will operate in matrix teams on a wide range of projects using agile ways of working collaboratively with other colleagues in Global Clinical Operations and partners from the wider Biostatistics, Data Science, and R&D community. In this role, you will: This role will have two key responsibilities - solving business problem statements through the execution of ad hoc analyses and building / maintaining data science solutions to be embedded as features into analytics products in support of better planning and monitoring of GSK’s clinical trials. Required qualifications and Experience We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: 4+ years of experience of working in Data Science or related role 4+ years in applied Machine Learning, NLP, supervised and unsupervised learning. Experience applying data science to clinical trials operations (study enrolment acceleration, trial site selection, country profiling, recruitment curve prediction etc), patient identification or medical domain a plus/preferred Experience with data analytics using Real-World Data (RWD) a plus Proficiency in Python programming, SQL, Statistics, data pipelines and data storytelling through visualization methods e.g., PowerBI, PowerPoint, Excel etc. Working knowledge of cloud-based and local data science frameworks and toolkits. Experience in Azure / Databricks / Azure Health is preferred but GCP / AWS would be considered Exposure to building large scale machine learning systems or product development environment would be preferred but not mandatory Why Us? GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Our success absolutely depends on our people. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. If you come across unsolicited email from email addresses not ending in gsk.com or job advertisements which state that you should contact an email address that does not end in “gsk.com”, you should disregard the same and inform us by emailing [email protected], so that we can confirm to you if the job is genuine.