Associate Modeling Scientist

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Position Summary

Product Development (PD) at Bristol Myers Squibb is committed to accelerating CMC development to launch through strategic investments in novel development and manufacturing platforms, new development playbooks, and advancing innovation though modeling, AI/ML, and automation. These specific strategic investments are known as our Development Excellence strategy.  As part of this organization, the Product Development Strategy group is accountable for developing a holistic digital and modeling strategy and its global integration and implementation.

We are seeking a highly motivated associate modeling scientist to join the Modeling and Digital Strategy group. In this role, the associate modeling scientist will be responsible for developing and optimizing predictive models across a range of use cases focusing on accelerating process development. The role will participate in highly visible and agile cross functional teams with scope spanning the digital and modeling space.  They will collaborate closely with partners within PD such as drug substance, drug product and analytical functions as well as with business partners such as IT. 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Collaborates with PD data scientist and scientific experts to build predictive models to enable development portfolio decisions and acceleration
• Collect and curate data from multiple sources including electronic notebooks, spreadsheets, slide decks, and instrument files
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and completeness across different data sets
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to identify data sources and locations, understand data requirements and challenges, and provide data solutions
• Effectively communicates with scientific experts and data engineers
• Collaborate with business partners to develop novel ways to meet objectives utilizing cutting edge techniques and tools
• Stay connected with external sources of ideas through conferences and community engagements

Qualifications & Experience

Minimum Qualifications

• M.S in chemical engineering, pharmaceutical science, chemistry, biochemistry, physics or other quantitative area of study.
•  Demonstrated interest in working with large datasets, data visualization tools, statistical software packages and platforms to solve problems.
• Familiarity with Python programing language
• Experience with software platforms used in data science and engineering, data analysis and data visualization a plus (e.g. Advanced SQL, PL/SQL, R, Python, Domino, AWS, GitHub, dbt, SAP HANA, Spotfire, Tableau, Hadoop, Redshift)

Experience

• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, team-building, and communication skills to ensure effective collaborations within matrix teams.
• Exceptional analytical skills with substantial knowledge in field of study
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to quickly gain and apply functional area specific knowledge.
• Ability to learn new tools and skills quickly.
• Experience interpreting analytical results and ascertaining implications.
• Experience interacting with stakeholders: understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling their insight/analytical information requirements.
• Exceptional creative problem solving skills to answer key business questions.

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On-site Protocol

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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