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Innovation & Digital Health Analytics (IDHA) frequently leads key initiatives in strategic, operational and analytic domains, many of which are highly visible, cross functional, complex (multiple work streams), with significant investment, and innovative in nature.

The IDHA team partners with Drug Development leadership and team to design and deliver innovative analytics solutions to drive data driven decision making that drive trial and portfolio performance. Our diverse analytics team of knowledge management experts, data scientists, analysts and data visualization specialists works on multiple projects simultaneously, ranging from piloting new capabilities, to developing cutting-edge approaches, to operationalizing complex solutions.

In support of Drug Development strategy the Associate Director, Innovation & Digital Health Analytics with Drug Development leadership and BIA Business Partners to pioneer new analytics solutions, improved ways of applying data and analytics to drive value, and cutting edge modeling capabilities related to clinical trials and drug development portfolio, to drive competitive advantage, operational excellence and data driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities and Major Duties

• Hands-on analyst that will be expected to design, develop, model and deploy advanced solutions
• Hands-on data munging, statistical modeling and data visualization to pioneer innovative solutions
• Test and build analytics solutions for Drug Development to enable better understanding of trial design and operational feasibility, predicted performance and prescriptive risk mitigation strategies
• Employs disruptive thinking to pressure test trial design, asset plans, and existing trial execution processes
• Uses a sound understanding of analytics techniques and technology and business process to build practical analytics solutions for value capture
• Engage and collaborate with a diverse team of business stakeholders, analysts, data scientists and IT to translate unstructured, complex business problems into data and information needs and deliver the appropriate data, modeling, and/or analytical solutions
• Develop data visualizations and/or dashboards in Tableau or tool-of-preference to facilitate metrics reporting & monitoring, insights consumption, and additional analyses
• Effectively translate the analytics model into business language to ensure insights are understood and acted upon by stakeholders
• Partners with the broader Drug Development Innovation, Business Partner and Data Science teams to identify new opportunities to apply analytics and enhance existing solutions

Qualifications/Degree/Certification/Licensure

• BA/BS required (engineering or quantitative area of study preferred)
• Additional graduate degree preferred (computer science or data science preferred)
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on analytics experience, coupled with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated competence in data & analytics skillsets such as data mining, data visualization, machine learning, code development in python/R, Git, cloud computing platforms like AWS, model governance with MLFlow or equivalent
• Experience building data access and visualization tools
• Knowledge of classical machine learning models (Classification, Regression, Clustering, Time-Series Analysis, Dimensionality Reduction etc.)
• Experience writing quality, well-documented and well-tested code
• Familiarity with modern computer vision, computational linguistic and/or transformer-based natural language processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG), Large Language Models (LLM) frameworks a plus
• Familiarity with MLOps or other method for monitoring model performance a plus

Skills for Success

• High motivation, strong work ethic, maturity, accountability and personal initiative
• Passionate about problem-solving, with demonstrated ability to identify root cause and work through challenges
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships, influence, negotiate, and drive organizational engagement
• Capable of bringing structure to vaguely defined problems while using creative yet pragmatic problem-solving approaches and execution management
• Strong written and oral presentation, facilitation, and executive messaging skills; ability to frame issues and present to business stakeholders
• Attention to detail and customer mindset - applies global standards, models, and templates to drive innovation and consistency in analytics design and user experience; ability to ensure connectivity across multiple functions
• Strong desire to learn, willing to quickly build a strong background on critical and diverse topics related to the pharmaceutical industry (issues, trends) and be able to effectively identify opportunities and their potential business impact
• Self-discipline for planning and organizing tasks, with ability to appropriately prioritize and act proactively
• Subject matter expertise in the project area is not required; however, passion for learning the subject matter enough to inform decisions is critical

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.

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