Overview

Position Title: Associate Director Data Scientist

Company: AstraZeneca

Location: Congleton, UK

Job Description:

Impact will be on the area of SHE Operational compliance and operations efficiency within the operating area.Providing authoritative information, guidance, mentorship and advice to colleagues at all levels, you will ensure standard methodologies are embedded across the department.Support colleagues via mentoring and training of individuals as well as audit services to benchmark and assess performance across your business area.A passionate advocate and leader in SHE, you’ll craft and maintain a positive health and safety culture as part of delivering a business-wide behavioural safety programme.Working alongside a colleague SHE Facilitator in the team and with the Site SHE Experts, you’ll support the delivery of SHE improvements and initiatives with local line management and SHE reps.Develop and be responsible for a number of leading and lagging performance indicators focussed on helping deliver a sustainable step change in SHE performance.

Responsibilities:

  • Here you’ll have the chance to create a meaningful difference to patients’ lives. With science at its heart, this is the place where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicines – for the world’s most complex diseases.
  • Answer unmet medical needs by pioneering the next wave of science, focusing on outcomes and shaping the patient ecosystem. With our ground-breaking pipeline, the outlook is forward-thinking.Be proud to be part of a place that has achieved so much, yet is still moving forward.There’s no better time to join our global, growing enterprise as we own the way for healthcare and society.A place that’s investing in the latest technology, data and innovative ways of working. Here you’ll be backed with everything you need to be at the forefront of digitising our organisation. Whether that’s working on the leading- edge, defining the future of Pharma or upskilling yourself in our Digital and Data Academy.

Requirements:

  • Enabling Digital Health by developing an ecosystem of data science capabilities for improved clinical trial design, execution and monitoring that includes operation and clinical data, real-world evidence, remote monitoring, telemedicine, medical and wearable devices to augment trials.
  • Researching and developing data science algorithms using high-frequency structured and unstructured data generated from trials to achieve goals on patient centricity, sustainability and improved clinical trial design and execution.
  • .Developing and implementing end-to-end automation and integration of our algorithms in products using state-of-the-art serverless architectures in cloud platforms such as AWSS.
  • upporting individual therapeutic areas and study teams to solve varied challenges using statistics, data sciences and machine learning.

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines.

Our Purpose is to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We believe the best way we can achieve our Purpose is to put science at the centre of everything we do. Science defines who we are. It is why we come to work every day and is part of our DNA. But this is only half of the story. We know that we do not have all the answers. We want to share ideas because we believe it results in better medicines. We want the way we work to be inclusive, open and collaborative. This approach runs through all that we do.

We focus on three main therapy areas – Oncology, Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease (CVMD) and Respiratory – and we are also selectively active in the areas of autoimmunity, neuroscience and infection. To put ourselves in the best position to push the boundaries of science, we seek to leverage our combination of capabilities, which encompass both small molecules and biologics, and include immunotherapies and developing innovative delivery devices that can offer choice to patients. These are reinforced by a strong focus on personalised healthcare capabilities, which aim to match medicines only to those patients who will benefit from them. Our teams also work alongside the world's leading academic and biotech research institutions to stimulate innovation and evaluate emerging technologies such as Modified RNA and CRISPR genome editing.

AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. For more information, visit www.astrazeneca.com.