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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Life Sciences Data Science Consultant

Data ScienceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or another quantitative field.
  • At least 4 years of experience working on Life Sciences, Pharma, or Healthcare projects and delivering successful outcomes.
  • A strong understanding of pharmaceutical data sets, including commercial, clinical, real-world evidence, and electronic medical record data.
  • Hands-on experience in one or more of real-world evidence data, research and development clinical data, or digital marketing data.
  • Hands-on experience handling datasets such as Komodo, RAVE, IQVIA, Truven, or Optum.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying statistical models or machine learning, including segmentation, predictive modeling, hypothesis testing, multivariate statistical analysis, time-series techniques, and optimization.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as R, Python, SQL, and Spark.
  • Ability to work with large datasets, present findings and insights to stakeholders, and manage data using databases such as SQL.
  • Experience with at least one cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, for deploying and scaling language models.
  • Proficiency in Excel, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Ability to solve complex business problems.
  • Strong writing skills for developing points of view on current industry trends.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a data-driven mindset.
  • Good communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
  • Relevant experience in the required domain.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic advisory services, conduct market research, and develop data-driven recommendations to enhance business performance.
  • Support delivery of consulting projects by small to medium-sized teams for global clients.
  • Perform strategy, implementation, process design, and change management for assigned modules.
  • Work with the team or as an individual contributor on assigned projects, using skills across data engineering and data science.
  • Provide subject matter expertise in Life Sciences industry subsegments.
  • Develop assets, methodologies, points of view, research, or white papers for the team and wider community.
  • Acquire skills that are useful across industry groups.
  • Support strategies and operating models for business units, assess likely competitive responses, and assess implementation readiness and areas of greatest impact.
  • Co-lead proposals and business development efforts, and coordinate with colleagues to create consensus-driven deliverables.
  • Execute a transformational change plan aligned with the client’s business strategy and context, engage stakeholders, and build commitment to change.
  • Give presentations to clients or other known audiences on functional aspects of the role’s domain.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with any data visualization tool such as Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, or Spotfire.
  • Ability to apply design thinking, business process optimization, and stakeholder management skills.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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