Overview
Como parte de Consultoría de Parexel, cumplirá un rol vital al asistir a las empresas biofarmacéuticas y de dispositivos médicos a transitar el complejo y siempre cambiante entorno regulatorio. Respaldado por su experiencia científica, técnica y regulatoria, trabajará de cerca con los clientes para desarrollar e implementar estrategias regulatorias que colocarán sus medicamentos en el mercado con mayor rapidez y los mantendrán allí.
Valoramos la colaboración, la innovación y el aprendizaje continuo. Como miembro de nuestro equipo, se asociará con un grupo diverso de clientes y estará expuesto a diversos tipos de medicamentos y áreas terapéuticas. Asimismo, desarrollará sus habilidades a través de asignaciones desafiantes y con la mentoría de profesionales experimentados en asuntos regulatorios. Además, disfrutará de la flexibilidad de trabajar en modalidad remota, al tiempo que forma parte de un equipo colaborador y dinámico.
Perfil del éxito
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- Solucionador de problemas
- Orientado al detalle
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Purpose of this Role:
The Principal Consultant, Advanced Analytics: Data Science and AIcontributesstatistical capabilities and methodological leadership at all stages of projects, from planning to completion. The role includes working with junior team members in designing, developing, and delivering client solutions across multipleprojects—leveragingcompetencies in statistical theory, data analysis and interpretation, regression analysis, machine learning algorithm development, deep learning, and natural language processing techniques.Additionally, the role is critical in driving business development fordatasciencesolutions across the clinical development and market access spectrum. The individual must have a Master’s or Doctoral degree in Health Economics, Statistics, Biostatistics, Mathematics, or another quantitative field. They should be proficient in machine learning techniques including targeted learning as well as statistical software/tools such as R, Stata, Python, and SAS.
Knowledge and Experience You will require for this role:
Strong basis in fundamental statistical concepts and methods and familiarity with techniques such as development of predictive equations, survival analysis (including parametric methods), longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis, mixed treatment comparison, and other hierarchical analysis techniques, etc.
Familiarity with machine learning techniques and Bayesian statistics is a plus.
Strong statistical programming skills with standard software, including SAS, R,orSTATA.
Strong communication(spoken and written) and problem-solving skills, and an ability tolearn-quickly.
Ability to communicate effectively, in non-technical terms, with project team members.
Ability to work well in a team as well asindependently andbe able to take leadershiprolewith regard tomethodological elements in projects.
Education Requirements:
MScor PhDinData Science, Medical Statistics, Computational Biology,Health Economics, Health Policy, Statistics, Biostatics,Mathematicsor other quantitative fields.
Skills, Competencies and Capabilities you will need to qualify for this role:
Sixor more years of working experiencewithhealthcareconsulting or pharmaceutical organizations.
Familiarity with machine learning use cases in HEOR including the prediction of risk of various health care events; the causal estimation of treatment effects; developing models for economic evaluation; and model/data transparency.
Willingness to work under pressure to meet multiple and sometimes competing deadlines.
Excellent scientific, business writing, andpresentation skills with close attention to detail.
Exceptional communication skills, especially in the relaying of technical information and project concepts.
Competent in written and spoken English
SAS (Base, Stat, Graph, Macro), R, SPSS, STATA, andPython
Key Accountabilities of this Role Include:
Project Execution;
To direct project teams in the design,developmentand delivery of client solutions across multiple projects.
To provide high level input to the development of client deliverables including the provision of support to the delivery team in the development of strategic recommendations tailored to individual projects.
To provide advice and support to existing clients both within and outside of projects.
To help manage existing business accounts andidentifynew business opportunities for Parexel with existing and new clients.
To proactively mentor and develop members of the team to help achieve best in class status.
To ensure theoptimallevels of client management aremaintainedat all levels and that the training and support to achieve best practice consultancy standards are achieved.
To ensure quality standards are adhered to on all projects and new methodologies and techniques are adequately assessed and implemented.
To foster thought leadership opportunities inAdvanced Analytics.
To work with Senior Management colleagues toidentifyfurther service opportunities.
Additional Responsibilities;
Principal Consultant, Advanced Analytics:DataScience and AIis responsible for ensuring that all assigned projects areconductedin an efficient manner and that quality and client satisfaction is maximized at all times -- ensuring the direction of the project and the quality of the deliverables meet the project objectives and the client needs. Further, Principal Consultants are expected to support and train the Seniorassociatesand Associates in their daily duties and to flag any areas of acute training needs to their line managers. Supported by the senior staff and Business Development partners, the Principal Consultantis responsible formaintainingclient relationships on their projectsand driving newbusiness development (with a sales target). In addition, the individual will be expected to contribute to the continuing growth and improvement of the business unit through taking ownership of company and business unit processes and initiatives as well as contributingto the Senior Management Team's focus and direction.The Principal Consultant will also be expected to meet stated targets for new business development.
Candidates will be part of multi-disciplinary research teams and will be expected to provide statisticalexpertiseand methodological leadership at all stages of projects from planning to completion. Duties will vary according to the nature of the projects. These may includeindependently contributing to thepreparation of study protocols, data manipulation and analysis, development of machine learning algorithms, application of deep learning and natural language processing techniques, andassistingwith the interpretation and dissemination of findings. Candidate is expected to also lead and support ongoing innovationobjectivesof the unit in the field of health outcomes analysis which warrants having thought leadership skills.Candidate is expected to also support ongoingthought leadership andinnovationobjectivesof the unit in the field of advanced analyticsincluding,but not limited to:
Supervised and unsupervised learning
Variations in machine learning algorithm development such as regression, classification, clustering, and dimensionality reduction
Variations of ensemble methods such as boosting, bagging, and stacking improve model performance
Deep learning
Super learners
Targeted learning
Targeted maximum likelihood estimation
Target trial emulation and other causal inference applications
Causal modelling
Predictive modelling
Feature engineering
Natural language processing
Large language models
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