Biogen · 1 day ago
Associate Director, Data Science Lead
Cambridge, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$158K/yr - $217K/yr
7+ years expBiogen is a mid-sized biotechnology company committed to excellence and innovation. The Associate Director, Data Science Lead will drive the development of advanced modeling solutions that inform strategic business decisions across Marketing, Sales, and Access, while leading high-impact data science initiatives.
BiotechnologyHealth CareNeuroscienceTherapeutics
Responsibilities
Execute flawlessly the long-term data science and AI vision, ensuring alignment with enterprise capability roadmaps, commercial priorities, and emerging AI/ML trends
Lead the end-to-end development, deployment, and scaling of data science solutions, including predictive models, clustering, segmentation, optimization, and advanced natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs), to address complex commercial challenges and extract insights from unstructured data
Act as a trusted partner to the insights and marketing teams, demonstrating rigor and knowledge in data science algorithms, while displaying agile ways of working, accountability and value
Being open to feedback from adopters on the quality of outputs and building corrective model fine tuning and performance continuously
Serve as the primary data science partner for U.S. commercial brand teams, translating business objectives into analytical frameworks that drive measurable impact across marketing, sales, and access strategies
Guide business stakeholders through insight interpretation and activation, ensuring outputs are integrated into workflows and decision-making processes
Provide technical expertise and thought leadership on the development of analytical tools, reusable frameworks, proprietary data products, and service lines-contributing directly where needed
Promote analytical rigor, responsible experimentation, and model governance best practices, serving as a champion of quality and innovation across the analytics organization
Collaborate with a high-performing team of data scientists, that encourages learning and experimentation
Collaborate with IT to develop and co-create the ML Ops environments and deliver productized solutions
Design and operationalize Next Best Action (NBA) strategies using machine learning to optimize field force effectiveness, drive personalized omnichannel engagement, and increase HCP engagement ROI
Develop and scale Patient 360 models and predictive targeting algorithms to support AI-driven lead generation, enable high-value patient outreach, and enhance commercial performance across key therapeutic areas
Guide measurement and ROI optimization efforts through marketing/media mix modeling and budget allocation using data from APLD, PlanTrak, claims, and specialty pharmacy sources
Manage relationships with external analytics partners, ensuring alignment with internal data engineering, insights, IT, and compliance teams for scalable, secure solution delivery
Qualification
Required
Minimum 7 years of hands-on analytics or data science experience, including at least minimum 4 years leading data science projects or teams
Strong command of statistical modeling supervised and unsupervised learning, A/B testing, and time-series forecasting
Strong experience in marketing mix, portfolio optimization, decision engine build Gen AI product design
Experience deploying data science solutions in a commercial setting-ideally within pharma, biotech, or healthcare
Proficient in Python, R, SQL, and Snowflake; experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other data visualization tools
Proven track record of designing and implementing Next Best Action strategies, marketing optimization models, and omnichannel analytics
Experience working with APLD, Plan Trak, specialty pharmacy, or claims datasets
Strong communication and influencing skills; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
Preferred
Master's degree in data science, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or related field
Benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
80 hours of sick time per calendar year
Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
Employee Resource Groups participation
Company
Biogen
Biogen is an American biotechnology company that provides therapeutics for neurological, autoimmune, and rare diseases.
Founded in 1978Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.5BKey Investors
JP Morgan
2023-08-28Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
1991-09-27IPO
Leadership Team
Robin C. Kramer
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Priya Singhal
Executive Vice President, Head of Development
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