Group Head – Scientific Innovation, RX & AI, Computational Sciences
Novartis
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Basel • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Lead
About the role
- Lead a team of AI researchers who also bring significant domain area expertise
- Work with AI modelers to ensure models are robust and performant
- Work with Engineering and Product Development resources to ensure delivery of AI solutions
- Raise the awareness of AI applications to aid in answering key research questions across BR
- Help position AI-aided drug discovery contributions to deliver and support progress of Biomedical Research’s portfolio, enable new kinds of therapeutic discoveries, shorten cycle times, and increase efficiency.
- Act as the primary liaison as a subject matter expert for AICS, for identification of research questions, solution design, and evangelism of results and impacts of AI across Biomedical Research
- Regularly communicate, engage, align with AICS teams, broader data science community, and senior scientists.
- Initiate and lead key high-value internal collaborations across BR.
- Help to design translatable metrics for AI models that will lead to tangible impact in collaboration with BR DAs and FAs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of significant experience in innovation, development, deployment and continuous support of Machine Learning data management and modeling
- Expertise in bringing advanced analytics insights and actions to a large Research organization & deep understanding of Drug development
- Passion for understanding emerging technologies with pragmatic insight into where those technologies can be integrated into business solutions
- Ability to balance requirements, manage expectations, and drive effective results using a proactive attitude towards identifying and resolving issues
- Entrepreneurial spirit with can-do, pro-active attitude
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and influencing skills and demonstrated track record of exceptional teamwork
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to execute and prioritize well in a complex matrixed environment.
Benefits
- No benefits explicitly mentioned in the job opening.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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