Associate Director, Real World Evidence Data

3 weeks ago


Mississauga, Canada AstraZeneca Full time

**Real World Evidence (RWE) Data Scientist, Associate Director**:
At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation - ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

**What you’ll do**:
Leverage routinely collected data from healthcare settings to provide health analytics and insights in a range of contexts including Public Health, Pharmaceutical Research and Development and Commercial/ Payer. Collaborate with colleagues in Epidemiology, Statistics and Payer, giving scientific and technical guidance on study design, RW data selection and best practice in RW data utilization. Assist in advancing and shaping AZ’s Real World Science data strategy through the due diligence on new data providers/vendors, informatics support for data acquisitions in a range of Therapeutic Areas.
- Collaborate with Epidemiology and Outcome Research teams to improve the value derived from large observational research data
- Deliver analyses of data from EMR, claims and primary observational data required by Tumor Area (TA) RWE strategies
- Support the development of IVS strategies and selection of optimized contact models for prioritized markets through analysis of RWD
- Provide technical input, options and directions to strategic decisions made by AZ observational study teams on study design, data partner selection and best practices in RWE data utilization
- Provide clear technical input, options, and direction to strategic decisions on RWE platform and capability build
- Provide support for strategic decisions on AZ Medical Evidence and Observational Research external collaborations in the US and other markets
- Assist in building a capability that becomes a source of sustained competitive advantage for AZ in identifying, acquiring, integrating, and mining diverse RW data from multiple geographic and healthcare system sources to support evidence generation and real-world studies
- Evaluate and assess strengths and weaknesses of external RW data sources, and potential partners for advancing the data strategy for specific therapeutic areas
- Maintain a strong insight into the capabilities of potential external partners in RWE, especially for US and emerging markets.

**Essentials for the role**
- PhD or MS in data science or other advanced degree in life sciences with post-doctoral or other training/work in Medical/Health Informatics or related field
- 3 years experience in real-world evidence and familiarity with health economics/epidemiology, and quantitative science such as health outcome modelling
- Expertise in EMR/Health IT, disease registries, and insurance claims databases
- Expertise in clinical data standards, medical terminologies and controlled vocabularies used in healthcare data and ontologies (ICD9/10/ReadCode)
- Experience in supporting pharmacoepidemiology studies with proven track record of advancing approaches with data science
- Experience in Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) generation and execution for observational studies
- Experience in advanced visualisation and visual analytics of routinely collected healthcare data

**Desirable for the role**:

- Expertise in data mining approaches within healthcare settings generating insight from routinely collected healthcare data
- Demonstrated ability to build long-term relationships with collaborators at senior levels, understand relevant scientific/business challenges at a deep level and translate into a program of informatics activities to deliver defined value
- Ability to lead & manage multi-disciplinary data science projects
- Strong track record of delivering large, cross functional projects
- Experience working in a global organization and delivering global solutions
- Use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the generation of hypotheses within Real World Data

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