Data Scientist

• Job title: OPCM – Data Scientist
• Location: Budapest, Hungary
• Job type: Permanent, full-time
• Hybrid working
   

About the job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Join our global Operational Planning and Capacity Management (OPCM) team as a Data Scientist and you’ll contribute to the mission of continuously improving Sanofi’s R&D Operations by ensuring integrated and aligned R&D Planning (P) and Resource (R) Management, and by leveraging Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for effective decision making.

Main responsibilities:

The Data scientist role regroups several responsibilities:

Data analytics

• Work with OPCM and business teams to understand Data Science and AI-based solution requirements and translate them into technical needs.

• Decrypt and translate business problems into technical solutions and to vulgarize complex and technical topics to non-experts.

• Write management rules for cleaning and structuring databases, statistical analyses plan with mock-up tables/graphs associated.

• Develop scripts for data extraction, cleaning, management and visualization

• Analyze data using traditional statistical methods

• Create and test machine learning algorithms for predictive analyses

• Build model training data and continuously improve models

• Create meaningful visual representations that enable informed decision making.

• Ensure maintenance of program developed.

• Write and maintain technical documentation, user guides and provide the training to end users.

• Communicate and present results and solutions to business teams

• Lead and contribute at various transversal initiatives and working group related to data sciences and analyses, and web applications

• Remain up to date with emerging technologies and explore innovative ways to enhance existing solutions or develop new ones. Network inside and outside the Company to stay competitive in fields of expertise.

Development of web apps

• Work in collaboration with stakeholders to clarify expectations and functionality on webapp.

• Design web apps with code-based frameworks such as RShiny, Shiny for Python, Dash or Streamlit.

• Work in collaboration with transversal team (e.g., BSM, digital team) to establish connection with data, software and webapp developed.

Key Relationships

You will collaborate cross-functionally, as follows with:

• OPCM Functions heads and team

• OPCM RDPM and Data analytics BSO

• Digital teams (RDPM, Data fabric, Environment Platform owner)

• RDPM Business solutions owner

• Stakeholders

About you

Experience:

• 3-5 years of analytical experience with proven deliverables on data analytics (statistical analysis and modelling, and machine learning algorithms) and web application development;

• Strong experience in the language Python and R;

• Ideally, experience in planning and project management, for understanding requirements and work efficiently on the specifications.

• Ideally, experience in a Pharma/Biotech company to understand overall R&D drug development

• As a plus, Acquired knowledge in the Business Operational activities in scope of activities (Clinical, CMC, Research, etc.).

Soft Skills:

• Analytical mindset, pragmatic, and striving for results

• Teamwork and transversal collaboration, strong networking skills

• Organizational skillset, Rigor, quality mindset

• Ability to coordinate activities and manage various stakeholders.

• Ability to identify problems and creative problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication skills (written a