Principal Data Scientist

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Analytics and Performance Excellence (APEX) function supports AbbVie's US Commercial organization and is comprised of highly regarded researchers, analysts, data scientists and strategists who are committed to being best-in-class within the biopharmaceutical industry. We serve as a strategic in-house counsel, ensuring that all decisions leverage the key insights that we develop. We continue to build new capabilities and skill sets, encouraging our team members to pull up a chair, be themselves, be creative, speak their minds, and do good work. We are a passionate, diverse, flexible, and inclusive organization with a culture that supports the best ideas, wherever they originate. We are smart, fun, quirky, and innovative – and we'd love for you to join us.

The Principal Data Scientist is the technical lead for a portfolio of advanced analytics products that support personalized commercial engagement and performance optimization. Operating within the APEX Enterprise Advanced Analytics and Innovation team, this role is accountable for the end-to-end technical strategy, model design, methodology, development, and validation of AI/ML and statistical solutions. These solutions enable data-driven decision making across customer engagement, targeting, optimization, measurement, and ongoing performance improvement. The role reports to the Associate Director, Data Science and serves as the primary technical partner to the analytics product owner, translating business outcomes and product requirements into rigorous, scalable, and actionable analytics solutions. The position requires deep expertise in applied machine learning, statistical modeling, experimentation, and omni-channel analytics within a pharmaceutical commercial context.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of advanced analytics capabilities across customer understanding, engagement planning, decision support, and measurement.
• Translate product requirements and business goals into scalable technical solutions, including model design, feature engineering, validation, and deployment.
• Lead the design and development of predictive and inferential models that generate actionable insights on customer behavior, engagement opportunities, and drivers of business performance using complex, multi-source data.
• Design analytics approaches that evaluate cross-channel engagement patterns, interaction effects, and temporal dynamics to inform coordinated customer strategies.
• Own measurement methodologies to measure effectiveness, incrementality, and business impact using experimental and observational methods.
• Partner with BTS, Digital Lab, engineering, and platform teams to build scalable, production-ready analytics and AI/ML solutions.
• Establish best practices in model development, including code quality, documentation, reproducibility, peer review, version control, and methodological rigor.
• Synthesize complex technical findings into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for non-technical stakeholders
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to productionalize AI/ML solutions, including deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Stay current with advances in applied machine learning, causal inference, and pharmaceutical analytics, proactively identifying and piloting emerging methods that could enhance the existing and new capabilities.

Supervisory / Management Responsibilities

This role does not carry formal direct report responsibilities at this level but is expected to provide technical mentorship and hands-on guidance to junior and mid-level data scientists supporting the advanced analytics team. The Principal Data Scientist may lead technical workstreams with external analytics vendors and partners, including oversight of deliverable quality and methodology