Data Scientist I - Advanced Analytics at Novo Nordisk

Plainsboro, NJ

About the Job

About the Department

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

As a member of the Advanced Analytics & Innovation team, collaborates with team members and other CI&A departments to deliver advanced data and analytics solutions to NNI Commercial Stakeholders, to the benefit of patients, prescribers and other stakeholders. Works across the CI&A organization, with stakeholders across the broader NNI organization and applicable consultants and partners, to implement advanced data and analytics solutions to critical business questions. Applies statistical and machine learning methods to deliver solutions leveraging internal and syndicated commercial datasets such as Xponent Plantrak, LAAD, Experian, Veeva, ICM and other. Collaborates with Novo Nordisk commercial functions to help measure and optimize promotional investments, inclusive of marketing mix, test & control, and promotional targeting related initiatives.

Relationships

Member of the Commercial Advanced Analytics & Innovation team within Commercial Insights & Analytics department, reporting to a Director-level manager (depending on specific assignment).

Internal relationships include directors and members of other CI&A teams, Commercial Operations, IT, Marketing brand leads, extended brand teams and other Marketing stakeholders, as well as other Finance & Operations stakeholders (Finance, PCOR, etc.). External relationships include secondary data vendors and consultants.

Senior-level (VP and higher) exposure through presentations on Marketing Mix and related topics.

Essential Functions

Collaborates with AA&I team members, other CI&A and/or F&O colleagues, and/or LoB stakeholders to define advanced analytics/ML opportunities, determine appropriate datasets and algorithms, identify patterns and formulate solutions, experiment and deliver analytics and models

Collaborate with internal and/or external resources (i.e., consultants and partner) to define and deliver innovative data and analytics solutions and services in response to business requirements and priorities. Areas of focus will include, but not be limited to: promotional impact analytics (incl. test vs. control, A/B testing, test-and-learn methodologies), patient analytics, HCP analytics, and related topics in support of our commercial and enabling functions

In collaboration with AA&I colleagues, IT, and external resources, support the development of infrastructure to support promotional impact assessment. This includes development of more predictive/efficient modelling techniques, establishment of reusable data pipelines, building out of reusable code repository, and establishment of dashboard/PPT-based reporting infrastructure

Provide support for marketing investment/mix projects, inclusive of NN stakeholder engagement, collaboration with IT on data processing, project management support, data trend QC, development and delivery of presentations, etc.

Explores and evaluates new data driven approaches to generating insights and solutions to address business issues

Works with other CI&A team members, IT, and data engineers to acquire and transform datasets (e.g., NPP, LAAD) that deliver critical business insights. Defines and creates metrics that can be leveraged by CI&A analysts to deliver insights to their stakeholders

Applies skill in data science and statistical analysis in support of organization-wide projects and programs

Provides guidance and QC oversight to more junior team members, and colleagues in other CI&A areas in use and delivery of analytics and analytical tools

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analytics, or related field required; MS or MBA preferred

A minimum of three (3) years relevant experience in ROI analytics, business analysis, sales analysis, forecasting, quantitative finance, data science or other related areas. Appropriate educational background may be substituted for some experience

Statistical and programming experience required

Proficient in two or more programming tools such as Python, R, SQL, Stata, etc., and demonstrated ability to learn new analytical and programming techniques required

Experience with IQVIA datasets and other industry sources preferred, but demonstrated experience analyzing and managing large, structured/unstructured datasets to generate insights is essential

Experience with leading visualization tools, platforms, and capabilities highly desirable – e.g., Dataiku, Snowflake, Tableau, Qlilksense, etc.

Strong written and verbal communications skills preferred. Willingness to develop written/verbal/presentation skills required

Ability to collect and synthesize complex information, making it relevant, understandable and actionable for key stakeholders. Able to tell stories around data and analytics that resonate with key stakeholders

Ability to solve complex, unstructured problems with minimal supervision

Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.