
Merck & Co.
Associate Manager Data Science
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Description
Associate Manager / Analyst Data Science
At our company we are leveraging analytics and technology, as we invent for life on behalf of patients around the world. We are seeking those who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision making, that will allow us to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.
Within our Human Health Digital, Data & Analytics organization we are transforming to better power decision-making across our end-to-end commercialization process, from business development to late lifecycle management. As we endeavor, we are seeking a dynamic talent to serve in the role of Analyst – Data Science.
We are seeking candidates with prior experience in the healthcare analytics or consulting sectors, prior hands-on experience in Data Science (building end-to-end ML models) and has hands on experience on building Gen AI based applications and systems. You will be part of a dynamic team that collaborates with our partners across therapeutic areas. Furthermore, effective communication skills are crucial, as this role requires interfacing with executive and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Selects analytical techniques and model methods best to solve business problems
- Ensures best practices sharing and cross the organization
- Enables delivery of data-analytics & Gen AI projects. Have deep knowledge of the company’s supported technology; understand the whole complexity/dependencies between multiple teams, platforms (people, technologies)
- Communicates intensively with other platform/competencies to comprehend new trends and methodologies being implemented/considered within the company ecosystem
- Understands the customer/stakeholders business needs/priorities and helps building solutions that support our business goals
- Participates in “community of practice” leveraging experience from delivering complex analytics projects.
- Designs machine learning systems and software to automate predictive model
- Transforms data science prototypes and applying appropriate ML algorithms and tools
- Develops ML algorithms to analyze large volumes of historical data to make predictions
- Establishes and manages the close relationship with customers/ stakeholders
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Software Development
- Generative AI
- NLP
- Prompt Engineering
- Testing
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Design Applications using AWS / GCP / Azure
- Data Engineering
Specializations
- AI/ML (Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Data Science)
- Gen AI
- NLP
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 0-3 years industry experience
- Proficiency in Python & SQL
- 1-3 years’ experience in healthcare analytics and/or consulting
- Strong foundations of statistics and machine learning
- Proficiency in Data Science Concepts, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in STEM (MS, MBA, PhD)
- Experience in Oncology/ Vaccine/ Pharma & Rare Diseases therapeutic area commercial analytics
- Knowledge of statistics, data science and machine learning & commercial pharma
- Experience of supporting End to End Projects
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