
Associate Director, Data Science and AI – Resource Optimization
Biogen
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $233,750 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead development and deployment of Marketing Mix Models (MMM) to measure channel-level promotional impact
- Quantify ROI across field force, digital, media, speaker programs, and patient initiatives
- Build resource allocation optimization frameworks to improve commercial investment efficiency
- Support annual brand planning and in-year budget reallocation through scenario modeling
- Execute the long-term data science and AI vision, ensuring alignment with enterprise capability roadmaps and commercial priorities.
- Act as a trusted partner to insights and marketing teams, demonstrating rigor and knowledge in data science algorithms.
- Serve as the primary data science partner for U.S. commercial brand teams, translating business objectives into analytical frameworks.
- Guide business stakeholders through insight interpretation and activation, ensuring outputs are integrated into workflows.
- Provide technical expertise and thought leadership on the development of analytical tools and proprietary data products.
- Promote analytical rigor, responsible experimentation, and model governance best practices.
- Collaborate with a high-performing team of data scientists, encouraging learning and experimentation.
- Manage relationships with external analytics partners, ensuring alignment with internal teams for solution delivery.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of hands-on analytics or data science experience, including at least 4 years leading data science product builds, teams, or programs.
- Strong command of statistical modeling supervised and unsupervised learning, A/B testing, and time-series forecasting.
- Strong experience in marketing mix, portfolio optimization.
- 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, marketing optimization models, and omnichannel analytics.
- Strong communication and influencing skills; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencestatistical modelingsupervised learningunsupervised learningA/B testingtime-series forecastingmarketing mix modelingportfolio optimizationanalytical frameworksdata visualization
Soft Skills
communicationinfluencingcollaborationleadershipinsight interpretationanalytical rigorthought leadershiprelationship managementteam encouragementpresentation skills