Senior Principal Data Scientist

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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function

Data Science

Job Category

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description

We are searching for the best talent for Senior Principal Scientist to be in Raritan, NJ.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

The Senior Principal Scientist will design, develop, and implement impactful data science projects delivering insights and analytics that shape Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine's commercial development of our clinical-stage pipeline!

Purpose

Working with the Senior Director, Global Data Science, you will use your deep technical expertise and pharmaceutical knowledge to advance the application of leading data science methodologies to drive insights and decisions that optimize the patient benefit and commercial value of JNJIM's pharmaceutical pipeline.

Major responsibilities include evaluating available and potential data sources to drive data strategy and strengthen our analytics. Develop end-to-end solutions, applying innovative algorithms within commercial analytics, and advancing data-driven decision-making and data science practice across GCSO.

Key partnerships include commercial analytics, medical affairs and market access within GCSO as well as regional commercial analytics and scientific affairs teams, J&J Technology (JJT) Data Science, R&D Data Science, JJT, regional commercial teams and others.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Act as a hands-on technical leader for the Global Data Science team, instituting leading practices, and modeling and enabling a data-driven culture!
• Develop and provide deep subject matter expertise and leadership on Data Science AI/ML methods, algorithm / model development, and their application to global commercial analytic business questions.
• Effectively navigate technological, analytical, legal, and privacy complexities to achieve objectives.
• Use AI/ML to transform our commercial strategy operations through impactful analytics projects that improve GCSO strategic decisions.
• Interact with and influence asset and disease area teams across Commercial, Medical Affairs, and Market Access on outcomes and insights from specific data science projects.
• Closely partner across Global Data Science and across GCSO to define the priorities and collaboratively build a roadmap to deliver specific use cases.
• Define data and analytics strategies and methods for specific Data Science projects across GCSO.
• Assess the financial implications and rationale for Data Science investments and help communicate overarching return on investment, business value drivers, success metrics, etc.
• Partner outside of GCSO with the regional businesses, global epidemiology, R&D, JJT, Legal, HCC and others in the development of the Data Science strategy and guidelines for insight generation and usage.
• Contribute actively to internal JNJIM's Data Science communities of practice, sharing methodologies and improving enterprise Data Science knowledge and capacity.
• Positively impact project teams and set standards of excellence for the team by demonstrating technical expertise, strong work ethic, integrity, and professional behavior.
• Work side-by-side with colleagues across Global Commercial Data Science to deliver integrated approaches on high value use cases / problems.
  
  

Qualifications / Requirements

• Master's degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, computational biology, statistics, epidemiology or related. PhD/PharmD/MD preferred.
• A minimum of 4 years of proven experience in healthcare or life sciences industry with hands-on data science experience in a commercial, medical affairs, scientific affairs and/or R&D environment is required.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling methods for supervised and unsupervised learning, including (but not limited to) regression analysis, clustering, outlier detection, decision trees, ensemble methods and boosting, and neural networks.
• Strong Python or R programming skills with experience working with relevant software and tools such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), SQL, business intelligence tools, A/B testing, etc.
• Specific data science experience within Oncology preferred.
• Proven track record influencing a large, sophisticated organization.
• Experience in developing, communicating, advocating for, and delivering long-term strategies.
• Validated experience in prioritizing and leading a complicated portfolio of projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  

Other Details

• This position will require up to 10% domestic travel.
  
  

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants' needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $137,000 to $235,750 USD.

Additional Description For Pay Transparency

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation's performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company's discretion on an individual basis.