Associate Director, Science

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Barcelona, Cataluña
In-Office
Healthtech • Software
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The Role

WELCOME to Aetion! We are a global leader in science-driven technology using real-world evidence to provide innovative healthcare solutions. Our Generate, Discover, and Substantiate applications, powered by the Aetion Evidence Platform, are used to evaluate the safety, effectiveness and value of medications, delivering better outcomes to patients, medical professionals, and clients. We’ve partnered with top biopharma companies and are backed by leading venture capital firms to help increase our medical research and expand our product line. Aetion is headquartered in the US and has expanded throughout Europe with a Technology Hub in Barcelona.

Aetion and Aetion’s leadership are recipients of several prestigious awards: 

  • Parity.org’s 2024 List of Best Companies for Equal Advancement Opportunities
  • Digital Health New York’s 2024 New York Digital Health 100
  • Newsweek's World's Best Digital Health Companies of 2024 

Come join us! 

PERKS of being an A-Teamer: 

  • 25 vacation days.
  • Daily in-office lunch stipend (and a fully stocked kitchen). 
  • Sabbatical opportunity after five years of employment.
  • Commitment to professional development opportunities.
  • Employee-led initiatives including annual company-wide innovation day & DEI resource groups.
  • Comprehensive private health coverage w/ out-of-network reimbursements options.
  • Peer & company recognition programs.
  • Monthly educational lunch & learns.

DESCRIPTION:

As an Associate Director, Scientific Data Insights you will be a key team leader responsible for leading client-facing interactions  to understand their data needs and providing directive on fit-for-purpose datasets. You’ll also collaborate internally to deploy new data sources and advise on data opportunities and potential data partnerships to support data strategy objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The following duties include, but are not limited to:

  • Develop internal and external frameworks to assess datasets and identify best-fit for various use cases
  • Work closely with the internal data strategy team to advise on data opportunities; identify and prioritize prospective data partners in alignment with Aetion’s data strategy
  • Advise internal stakeholders on best datasets for therapeutic areas and analytic solutions; lead the effort to validate and assess datasets with key internal constituents, and determine key research questions that can be addressed by specific data sources
  • In collaboration with internal relationship owners, advise clients on datasets best-fit for their research questions; work collaboratively with Aetion new and prospective customers to understand data needs and requirements
  • Communicate with leadership and key internal constituents on data strategy and priorities
  • Liaise between external data partners and internal sales, delivery, product and engineering teams to deploy new data sources
  • Negotiate and execute data contracts.

QUALIFICATIONS*:

Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of operational or management consulting experience using real-world data experience, with preference for use in life sciences and/or other healthcare industries
  • Analytical experience with healthcare data; capabilities in acquiring and analyzing clinical data sets, and longitudinal patient data.
  • Experience with choosing and applying real-world data to specific research questions as well as entire therapeutic areas
  • Facility to manage data partner, client / customer and internal relationships to drive to consensus and results
  • Travel as required.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in a science-related field, or Masters equivalent
  • Ability to develop and manage processes, operations and technology for data set ingestion and implementation
  • Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize work
  • Exceptional attention to detail and extremely strong problem-solving skills to anticipate and proactively recommend solutions
  • Ability to self-motivate and lead others
  • Strong written and verbal communications, including with senior executives and customers

Aetion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Aetion is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment


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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
210 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Aetion is a health care SaaS and services company leveraging the science of causal inference to rapidly and
transparently transform real-world data (RWD) into real-world evidence (RWE) on the safety, effectiveness, and
value of medications and clinical interventions.

Why Work With Us

Our deep scientific expertise, in combination with our technology application suite, enables us to deliver ROI for
our life sciences, regulator (including FDA and EMA), payer, and HTA customers in the U.S., Canada, an Europe.

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