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Data Scientist-INF004683

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Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.


The Data Strategy, Intelligence, and Partnerships team is a data sciences unit within the Center for Observational and Real-world Evidence (CORE). The team embraces the values of innovation, integrity, execution and entrepreneurial spirit. We have three central functions: 1) to build external real-world data (RWD) and technology focused partnerships (2) to be a business development arm that conducts due diligence and liaises with a variety of healthcare stakeholders to obtain access to healthcare data, analytics and research capabilities (3) to build internal data science capabilities and expertise that realizes the full value of our real world data and technology assets. Our strategic alliances focus on big data partnerships that can help answer many of Merck’s needs for enabling scientific research, product development and drug launch.

The candidate filling this position will be working in a multi-faceted, cross-functional environment both externally with vendors and clients, and internally with Merck leaders. Ideal candidates should be capable of conducting due diligence and identifying opportunities in technology & healthcare data, managing a portfolio of relationships/partnerships, communication, project management and consensus building. The data scientist will also research, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms to analyze diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes. The data scientist filling this position will participate in all phases of projects, including ideation, data discovery and preparation, data analytics and/or data mining, and finally assessing options and making recommendations.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

- Identify, evaluate and partner with novel health data and technology opportunities to generate differentiated research and real world evidence in a variety of disease areas (e.g. using claims and EMR data)
- Work cross-functionally across the enterprise to understand and support the use of real world data assets (EMR, claims, phenotypic data, sensor data, digital data, etc) and to enhance research evidence generation
- Lead the design and build out of an internal data lab and incubator
- Advance a data science strategy, culture and capabilities within CORE and the broader enterprise by working across technical and strategic groups in both the commercial and R&D organization
- Coordinating and executing day to day activities with external partner and internal stakeholders
- Drive a coordinated approach to leverage the data and technology assets across the company
- Demonstrate compelling business cases and establish performance metrics for different partnerships/ventures
- Facilitate execution of contracts, budget negotiations and research programs with partner organizations
- Ensure approaches are in full compliance with all legal, compliance and regulatory requirements
- Develop communications plan for internal and external engagements

Qualifications

Education:

- PhD degree in business, economics, epidemiology, genetics, health services research, informatics, biostatistics, computer science, physics, engineering, public health, policy, or a related quantitative discipline.

Required:

- Knowledge in advanced analytical, machine learning techniques. This includes expertise in analytics platforms such as Matlab, R, Python; research experience in analyzing big datasets
- Minimum of 1 year of healthcare domain knowledge in life sciences, health data, health IT and/or the payor marketplace
- Persistent and driven: Demonstrated characteristics of a forward thinker and self-motivator that thrive on new challenges and adapts to learning new knowledge
- Passionate: Show high energy for research problems and open to new ideas
- Entrepreneurial and intellectual curiosity in the application of health data
- Demonstrated excellence in interpersonal communication (written and oral) with superb listening skills
- Results-oriented in project management, communication, and relationship building to influence decision making
- Ability to champion the best ideas across disease/therapeutic areas around building real world data/big data capabilities and partnerships, and persuade decision makers to achieve the optimal outcome
- Provide a flexible mindset with the ability to routinely predict, identify, generate and evaluate alternatives best suited to business needs
- Ability to collaborate in team environment with diverse talent and culture
- Proven flexibility to accommodate changing situations in support of departmental and divisional goals

Preferred:

- Experience in applying real-world healthcare data in a health-related industry, academic or research setting.
- Working knowledge of leading-edge practices, techniques, and/or technologies within Informatics and related disciplines (such as machine learning)
- Experience working with longitudinal real world data assets (e.g., claims, electronic medical records, genomic data, consumer data, social media data)
- Experience with data analysis or data management along with familiarity of big data, analytics and/or data mining environments; data science experience and/or exposure would be a big plus
- Understanding of business processes in one or more of discovery, research, clinical, commercial, regulatory or safety domains
- An understanding of the payment reform or payer-provider structures would be a big plus

Our employees are the key to our company’s success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Our Company’s benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives. If you need an accommodation for the application process please email us at staffingaadar@merck.com.

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Job: Informatics IT

Job Title:Sr. Scientist, Informatics IT

Primary Location: NA-US-MA-Boston

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Number of Openings: 1

Shift (if applicable): N/A

Company Trade Name:Merck

Company

Our vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, consumer health and animal products. We aspire to be the best healthcare company in the world and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for tomorrow.

We have made it our mission to provide innovative, distinctive products and services that save and improve lives, satisfy customer needs and to be recognized as a great place to work

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