REQ-10078364
Maj 25, 2026
Spain

Resumé

#LI-Hybrid

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Relocation Support: This role is based in Barcelona, Spain. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support. Please apply only if this location is accessible.


Understand complex and critical business problems, formulates integrated analytical approach to mine data sources, employ statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to contribute to solving unmet medical needs, discover actionable insights, and automate processes for reducing effort and time for repeated use.
Manage the implementation and adherence to the overall data lifecycle of enterprise data from data acquisition or creation through enrichment, consumption, retention, and retirement, enabling the availability of useful, clean, and accurate data throughout its useful lifecycle.
High agility to be able to work across various business domains. High agility to be able to work across various business domains. Integrate business presentations, smart visualization tools and contextual storytelling to translate findings back to business users with a clear impact.
Independently manage budget, ensuring appropriate staffing and coordinating projects within the area.
If managing a team: empowers the team and provides guidance and coaching, with initial guidance from more senior leaders supervised. This is usually their first people manager experience.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities 

  • Project manage own tasks and works with allied team members; plans proactively, anticipates and actively manages change, sets stakeholder expectations as required, identifies operational risks and drives issues to resolution, minimizes surprise escalations, with initial support from supervisors
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, external partners and cross-functional teams to solve critical business problems
  • Understand life science data sources including preclinical, clinical, sales, contracting, promotions, social media, patient claims and Real World Evidence
  • Research and co-develop with supervisor in data management, new algorithms, methods, statistical models and business models and providing insight into structured and unstructured data
  • Quickly learn the use of tools, data sources and analytical techniques needed to answer a wide range of critical business questions
  • Support the evaluation of the need for technology and novel scientific software, visualization tools and new approaches to computation to increase the efficiency and quality of the Novartis practices
  • Independently identifies research articles and proposes them for application to Novartis business problems
  • Develop automation for data management, repeatedly refreshing analysis and generating insights
  • Articulates solutions /recommendations to business users. Works with senior data science team members to present analytical content concisely and effectively
  • Ability to provide understandable and actionable business intelligence for key stakeholders

Essential Requirements:

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in Data Science
  • Track record delivering global solutions at scale.
  • In-depth mastery of external environment and trends
  • In depth knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning
  • Experience in Python is a must
  • Professional level of English, both written and spoken
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across functions and teams.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion 

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
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Finance
Finance
Spain
Barcelona Gran Vía
Data and Digital
Full time
Regular
No
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