Job Family Description
China Analytics & AI Solution team combines innovative skills in data science, artificial intelligence, statistics, and machine learning with deep domain expertise to help deliver healthcare-grade solutions, enabling customers to uncover deeper insights, meet growing demands, and make better solution. The team is comprised of world-class data scientists, AI engineers, AI Architecture, and business consultants who specialize in the use of advanced analytics and AI/ML to solve the problem of today, and drive the breakthrough of tomorrow. We are at the center of IQVIA’s advances in areas such as up-to-date machine learning algorithms and cutting-edge statistical approaches. We deliver a wide spectrum of analytic solutions powered by AI/ML to help customers from clinical to commercial to enhance precision, increase speed, and scale to meet evolving challenges. Our efforts include:
- Find correlations that enable early disease detection.
- Transform sales and marketing outcomes.
- Turn unstructured text into structured, actionable data/insights.
- Increase automation and operational efficiencies.
- Access AI insights via scalable, secure platform.
Our team work hand-in-hand with business consultants, epidemiologists, disease area experts, and technology experts in Greater China and across the wider global teams, leveraging up-to-date AI/ML algorithms to deliver analytic solutions.
We are looking for a manager of analytics & AI solutions who is keen to apply statistics, machine learning algorithms at the cutting-edge of life sciences.
The primary focus of the role is:
- Work with the team and client to shape and develop requirements for ambitious life science questions.
- Translate business requirements into ML-focused solutions.
- Communicate technical concepts and analytical output to a diverse set o stakeholder (internal and external).
- Own the delivery of projects from a technical perspective: working closely with consultants, and other team members in an agile environment to deliver high quality, robust insights.
- Work closely with consultant, disease area expert, and technology expert to proactively identify opportunities for innovation and areas for improvement across the workflow, such as developing new offering or new AI product.
Ideally you will have:
- Graduated or higher degree in a technical or scientific domain, such as Statistics, Applied Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, OR two to five years of experience working in a technical / consulting environment involving advanced analytics, preferably in a commercial setting of healthcare industry.
- Strong scientific programming skills in languages such as Python, R, SAS, SQL.
- Appetite for applying new and existing technology to challenging problems in life science, i.e. motivated by solving the problem.
- Knowledge of supervised machine learning methods, such as regularized regression, ensemble tree-based models, support vector machines, deep learning methods, etc.
- Basic knowledge of NLP, such as sentiment analysis, topic model, NER, etc.
- Good written and spoken communication skills, including ability to present technical concepts to non-expert, write analysis plans for projects under guidance, contribute to proposals applications, etc.
- A proactive, innovative, and pragmatic approach to problem solving and an ability to think critically and independently, able to work as part of a cross-functional team.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com
