Data Scientist - Clinical Operations

at  Roche

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The Position
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.
In Roche’s Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED), we make transformative medicines for patients to tackle some of the world’s toughest unmet healthcare needs. At pRED, we are united by our mission to transform science into medicine. Together, we create a culture defined by curiosity, responsibility and humility, where our talented people are empowered and inspired to bring forward extraordinary life-changing innovation at speed.
Strategy, Portfolio & Operations (SPO) is a newly built function that aims to encompass several business partner functions for pRED including strategy & portfolio, program & project management excellence, clinical operations, sites and laboratory management, capability development and external operations. SPO is set up leveraging a hub and spoke design with a clear mandate for core capabilities that are mirrored by the respective spokes in disease therapeutic areas and functions across pRED. SPO’s mission is to deliver excellence in operations, ensure patient centricity and enable high-quality decision-making. As a trusted partner across pRED, SPO contributes to pRED’s research and development excellence.

• You have a comprehensive understanding of the clinical operational data we work with and foster learning with colleagues using analytical tools and applications.
• Together with partners in business and IT, you jointly design, implement, and maintain efficient analytics tools and solutions for data-driven study decision support (SDS) in agile teams.
• You demonstrate a customer-centric mindset and proactively seek to further improve our CO SDS landscape by contributing to projects and SDS solution development.
• Act as subject matter expert for applicable advanced analytical methodologies , programs and projects.
• Collaborate within cross-functional teams to develop solutions, gain alignment and deliver impactful business insights; engage necessary stakeholders to enable better decision -making.
• Increase the sophistication and application of advanced analytics methods (including predictive modeling, machine learning, and scalable prototypes) to measure study performance and guide portfolio-level decisions efficiently and at the speed of business
• Create and manage tools with up-to-date industry information to build accurate short-and long-term forecasts
• You act as a thought partner and advisor to all relevant teams and stakeholders; identify evidence needs and recommend and support implementing data solutions; e.g. jointly with IT partners.
• You apply analytical and statistical methods to answer a variety of business questions using multiple data sources and technical tools.
• You regularly assess and adjust priorities based on stakeholder feedback, organizational needs, and strategic relevance.
• You demonstrate strategic agility and the ability to engage stakeholders to understand and diagnose CO problems and recommend appropriate courses of action.
• You acquire, aggregate and/or curate data and information to address business needs.
• You lead high-quality analyses and design effective ways of presenting and delivering the results to maximize impact and interpretability