Data Scientist II – Product Development

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Data Scientist II – Product Development

Summary

Product Development (PD) at Bristol Myers Squibb is committed to accelerating CMC development to launch through strategic investments in novel development and manufacturing platforms, new development playbooks, and advancing innovation through modeling, AI/ML, and automation. These specific strategic investments are known as our Development Excellence strategy. As part of this organization, the Product Development Strategy group is accountable for developing a holistic digital and modeling strategy and its global integration and implementation.

We are seeking a highly motivated data scientist II to join the Modeling and Digital Strategy group. In this role, the data scientist will be responsible for developing and optimizing predictive models across a range of use cases focusing on accelerating process development. The role will participate in highly visible and agile cross-functional teams with scope spanning the digital and modeling space. They will collaborate closely with partners within PD such as drug substance, drug product, and analytical functions as well as with business partners such as IT.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Collaborates with PD function data science experts to develop, deploy, and maintain predictive models to enable development portfolio acceleration.
• Leverage advanced data analytics, multivariate analysis, first principle concepts, etc. to analyze big datasets, draw insights, and recommend proactive actions.
• Collaborates with business partners to develop novel ways to meet objectives utilizing cutting-edge techniques and tools.
• Effectively communicate the analytics approach and how it will meet and address objectives to business partners.
• Establish close collaboration with local GPS and IT functional data science and data engineering experts.
• Collaborate with USA and Europe based PD team members and stakeholders.
• Advocate and educate on the value of data-driven decision making focusing on the “how and why” of solving problems.
• Share your passion for Data Science with the broader enterprise community; identify and develop long-term processes, frameworks, tools, methods, and standards.
• Work hours that provide sufficient overlap with standard East Coast US working hours.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, team-building, and communication skills to ensure effective collaborations within matrix teams.
• Ability to work with diverse teams across organizational lines and structures.
• Proven ability to explain complex analyses and outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in analytical, engineering, operations research, or a scientific discipline.
• Proven experience (typically 3-5 years) in a hands-on working environment in data analytics and data integration.
• Hands-on experience with data science and analytics, modeling platforms, data engineering software, and visualization tools (e.g., Advanced SQL, PL/SQL, R, Python, SAP HANA, Spotfire, Tableau, Hadoop, Redshift).
• Experience working with large datasets, data visualization tools, statistical software packages, and platforms (specifically R, Python, advanced SQL, Domino, AWS, GitHub, dbt, Tableau).
• Experience with biotech product development and/or is a significant plus.
• Experience in the biopharma industry a plus.

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On-site Protocol

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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