Description

At Horizon Therapeutics, we define success by the number of lives touched, lives changed, and lives saved. Our global biotechnology company is made up of agile, out-of-the-box thinkers with a focus on delivering breakthrough medicines to those living with rare, autoimmune, and severe inflammatory diseases. This is the heart of our global mission. Start a career that enables you to live up to your potential and help others live up to theirs. Join us. The exceptional support we provide patients and communities equally extends to our employees. We offer industry-leading and award-winning benefits, compensation and rewards programs that positively impact all areas of our employees' personal and professional lives. Position Summary: The Data Science team at Horizon Therapeutics is looking for an extraordinary data scientist who is passionate about crafting, developing, and fielding data science solutions that drives impact for patients. The Data Scientist, Medical Research will partner with Horizon's various medical teams (Med Affairs, R&D, Commercial Development) to develop insights and understanding from data. This role will leverage cutting edge data science technologies and methods to help produce health outcomes publications, as well as uncover deeper insights about how our life-changing medicines are being used. The Data Scientist will be a key functional contributor, and must understand the medical landscape surrounding our products, as well as the analytics techniques necessary to produce publishable insights. They should be comfortable working with large, complex, and noisy datasets. The data scientist will automate recurring deliverables, manipulate transactional data to usable formats, and present clear visualizations.

Role and Responsibilities

• Responsibilities and Skills Required: • Develop a deep understanding of available data sources, including data capture methodologies, sampling requirements, and descriptive statistics • Implement advanced analytics in support of our Medical Affairs, R&D, and Commercial Development teams, including applications of machine learning and statistically sound research • Create insightful visualizations that can help a non-technical audience make sense of complex datasets • Proactively identify opportunities for leveraging data science to solve unmet medical needs • Transform uncovered analytics insights into medical publications • Support ad hoc data projects and tasks as needed • Ability to manage multiple projects in an ambiguous environment with shifting priorities and time-pressure • Excellent problem solving capabilities • Attention to detail - this role will be helping to product publishable medical abstracts • Strong communication skills (verbal and written); proven ability to work cross functionally and liaise across a complex set of stakeholders