Director, Data Science

Brentford, Greater London - London, United Kingdom

Job Description


The role will preferably be based at GSK House but candidates based in other locations may be considered on a case by case basis.

GSK is one of the world\'s foremost pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and we are proud to be leading a healthcare revolution. By disrupting our approaches to R&D and commercial business processes, Data & Analytics is allowing us to integrate, simplify and unlock all our data to drive innovation, decision making and enable our transformation in servicing our patients, healthcare professionals and consumers.

Job Purpose:

Lead data science efforts by partnering with leaders from across the business to translate the company\'s business objectives, market opportunities & portfolio of offerings into formal and cohesive global commercial strategies. The primary focus of your efforts will be on streamlining strategic decision information, uncovering new opportunities and automating commercial execution to ensure last mile value.

In this role you will:

  • Orchestrate cross-functional technical teams in developing, expanding and deploying Generative AI solutions ensuring alignment with business objectives
  • Develop generative AI use-cases for business process transformation using Design Thinking principles along with adapting the products for stakeholders
  • Help architect back-end solutions in order to adequately develop and test generative AI use cases for feasibility
  • Provide mentorship and technical guidance to the team
  • Stay abreast of the latest advancements in generative AI technologies
  • Ensure the technical feasibility and scalability of AI solutions
  • Actively participate in the ideation, prototyping, and testing of potential POCs, ensuring these initiatives align with our Design Thinking approach
About you:
This position requires technical knowledge, but also significant interpersonal and communication ability. We are looking for someone who can work effectively across boundaries \xe2\x80\x93 both cultural and functional. This international role requires partnership with other business areas, companies and countries, meaning a flexible communication style and astute cultural awareness are highly valued. You\'ll work in a matrix , inspiring change rather than commanding action. As a leader within the organisation, you are an agile, confident decision maker \xe2\x80\x93 someone able to solve sophisticated problems with effective solutions.

CLOSING DATE for applications: 22nd September 2023
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Why you?

Required Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
  • Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or related field, with demonstrated experience in developing product-level ML algorithms, with a proven track record of successfully delivering applied research to production
  • Excellent problem solving and data analysis skills, with expertise in developing or applying predictive analytics, statistical modelling, data and text mining/NLP, or machine learning algorithms on structured and unstructured data, at scale
  • Applied research experience in machine learning or deep learning or information retrieval or data analytics
  • Ability to develop insights and storylines through translation of analysis and modeling
  • Ability to build and deploy tools and methodologies to create solutions enabling analytics and measurement of sales and marketing activities (e.g., market-mix modeling, cross-channel attribution, omni-channel segmentation and customer targeting, patient pathways, omni-channel customer journey analysis and optimization etc.)
  • End to end experience in retrieving data and developing an executive-level analysis through advanced analytics techniques
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it\xe2\x80\x99s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on or 0808 234 4391. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels

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  • Job Id
    JD2998598
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Brentford, Greater London - London, United Kingdom
  • Education
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