Manager IP Analytics & Data (d/f/m)

Job Description Summary

Support the IP team to craft best-in-class IP strategies through leveraging advanced analytics and AI to enable data-driven decision making. Manage advanced analytics projects from data extraction through to analytics and insights generation. Build and implement data governance and data management framework for all IP data.

Job Description

Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Generic and Biosimilar medicines.

Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates. This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally.

Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz!

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Manage and implement advanced analytics projects with a deep understanding of different AI models and patent data, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

• Data governance & management of IP data

  • Ensure data integrity and consistency through processes and tools, including identifying and addressing key data gaps

  • Set-up and maintain data catalogues, dictionaries for all IP data tools; collaborate with technology team

  • Identify metrics for good data quality and monitor data quality across tools

• Build IP reports and analytics from internal and external databases

• Manage the ETL process, ensuring data cleansing and validation building data pipelines with IT operations team for regular reports and analytics

• Identify opportunities to improve and enhance internal IP data sets by leveraging external data

• Manage and develop Qlik dashboards to support the IP strategy process and reporting

• Project management: collaborate with Technology team on technical implementation of data APIs

• Proactively identify opportunities to improve and enhance our data systems in reaction to our clients’ needs

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• Master degree in data science, data engineering, computer science or related field

• 10+ years experience in life sciences industry or intellectual property in other industries

• Extensive experience in building stories with data in life science industry or intellectual property and proven track record of completing complex data science projects, including EDA and machine learning

• Excellent programming skills, web scraping, text processing, data extraction, cleaning, transforming and analyzing large data sets

• Ability to manage structured and unstructured IP data sets and databases, including the ETL process and creating a data pipeline

• Extensive experience working in SQL, Python, Qlik

• Problem-solving skills and analytical mindset

• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical topics to a non-technical audience

• Fluent English

You’ll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 30 days of annual leave

• Holiday allowance

• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)

• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits

• Parental leave

• Other offerings, such as bike leasing

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged! 

The future is ours to shape!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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Skills Desired

Analytical Thinking, Brand Protection, Communication, Detail-Oriented, Efficiency, Financial Processing, Intellectual Property, Law (Legal System), Microsoft Office, Multitasking, Office Administration, Organizing, Patent Prosecution, Patents, Productivity, Professional Etiquette, Teamwork