The Health Data Insights Manager is responsible for generating robust insights and supports the acceleration of high-quality prediction systems, infusing patient level data science and informatics into each step of the clinical trial process with focus on Feasibility (especially using TriNetX, EHR/EMR datasets).
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Gain deep understanding of the domain and core processes in order to leverage Data Science and analytics to solve business problems.
- Gather and analyze large datasets, identify key analytical opportunities.
- Responsible for communication, explanation and sharing of data insights (Pat. Journey, SOC, TriNetX, CLIP configuration etc.) with Health Data Insights Director and Associate Director and Medical/Clinical Team.
- Ensure adherence and compliance with Novartis standards and guidelines.
- Ensure quality control and audit readiness of analytic solutions.
- Ensure completeness and delivery according to specific stakeholder requirements.
- Recommend and lead major process improvement initiatives or other major non-clinical project activities requiring advanced analytical expertise.
- Regularly scan the external environment for latest trends in data science, machine learning and other applications of artificial intelligence, keeping the group updated on state-of-the-art techniques and technologies.
- Work directly with Health Data Director and Associate Director and expedite any clinical insights generation to support PSP.
Leadership Capabilities:
Understands the strategic ambitions of the GCO sub-team and the resulting northstar and is able to communicate those to other associates and peers. He / she is committed to the purpose of the GCO sub-team to design the best plan ensuring operational success of a program and related trials. He / she is committed to Novartis’ purpose to ‘reimage medicine to improve and extend people’s lives’ and uses this as a motivation and driver for his / her work.
Ability to work in a matrix organization with authenticity during organizational transformation; understanding the need for change, fostering resilience and cultivating agility through uncertainty and ambiguity. Contributes to new ways of working, product oriented agile mindset and fostering a culture of experimentation and high performance. Display energy, passion and optimism while contributing to change, and innovation.
Good self-awareness and self-management skills, acts with self-control, confidence and integrity, good understanding of organizational culture, relationships and dynamics as well as basic understanding of external environment and trends.
Key performance indicators:
- Support optimizing protocol design, improved patient mapping and matching, site identification and selection ultimately improving trial recruitment.
- Quality and timeliness of deliverables produced.
- Adherence to Novartis standards, in particular quality, ethical, health, safety and information security (ISEC) standards.
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology industry, or a Master’s degree in Data Science, Business Intelligence, Epidemiology, Public Health or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of Industry experience in some of the following areas: predictive modelling, advanced analytics, market intelligence, strategic planning, clinical trial design or execution, feasibility or patient recruitment and business insights.
- Previous work in patient data including clinical information systems, EMR, claims, etc.
- Strong familiarity with clinical data coding systems and/or computer-based clinical search tools and data analytics.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills. Communicates and works with business subject matter experts and organizational leadership.
- Self-motivated with a high degree of ownership and accountability for results.
- Possess strong, resourceful research skills to locate unusual information and have capacity to develop a deep domain specific knowledge base.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a matrix organization and demonstrates good skills in building partnerships, negotiating agreements.
- Good knowledge of multiple core Clinical Development functions (data management, Strategy and planning, statistical programming, trial management and monitoring) preferable.
Education:
- Bachelors, Masters, PhD, or equivalent experience in Life Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics, Medical Informatics, or Computer Science, Data Science, Operations Research.
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