UK Data & Analytics Lead

Job description

Site Name: UK - London - Brentford
Posted Date: May 7 2024
We're excited to be moving to our vibrant new home on New Oxford Street in central London from the end of June 2024. At GSK HQ, we're building an energising space where we can connect, collaborate and get ahead of disease together. Designed especially for us, it'll be one of the healthiest workplaces in the world, with best-in-class tech and bright, light spaces to help us thrive.

Job title: Data & Analytics Lead , UK

Location: GSK House (Brentford / New location - Tottenham Court)

Job purpose:

Data & Analytics Lead plays a pivotal role in harnessing data for informed decision making and driving innovation across the organization by putting in data strategy and execution of this strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning and Leadership:
  • Define and execute a data analytics strategy that supports corporate objectives and innovation.
  • Understand in detail GSK Global Data Framework, including various semantic layers and all relevant data/analytics definitions in the commercial and medical space and share global and regional KPIs definitions with local business teams as needed.
• Data Governance and Management:
  • Develop and enforce data governance policies to ensure data integrity, quality, legal and compliance.
  • Oversee the management of data assets, including data warehousing, data lakes, and databases.
  • Ensure to have monitoring and alerts in place to proactively identify and address data pipeline issues that could impact business operations.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of data solutions, configurations and changes that can be understood by both technical and business stakeholders.
• Advanced Analytics Development:
  • Identify opportunities for applying advanced analytics, such as predictive modeling and machine learning, to provide deeper insights that support business decisions.
  • Collaborate with the BI team to integrate advanced analytics into their reporting and visualization work.
• Data Infrastructure and Architecture:
  • Evaluate and recommend data technologies that enhance the existing data infrastructure.
  • Ensure that the data architecture supports current and future business needs, with scalability and flexibility.
  • Implement data security and compliance measures to protect sensitive information and ensure regulatory requirements are met.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration:
  • Work closely with business leaders to understand their data needs and ensure that the data analytics initiatives align with business priorities.
  • Translate complex data-related findings into actionable business insights.
• Innovation and Research:
  • Keep abreast of industry trends, new analytics methodologies, and emerging technologies that can provide a competitive edge.
  • Encourage innovation within the team to explore new data sources, tools, and analytical techniques.
  • Continuously optimize data solutions for performance, cost-effectiveness, and scalability while considering the impact on business operations.
• Project Management:
  • Prioritize and manage analytics project portfolio, ensuring timely completion and measurable business impact
  • Allocate resources and provide technical guidance on analytics projects.
• Cross-Functional Teamwork:
  • Act as a liaison between the Local/ Regional/ Global Tech, Local BI team and other business units to ensure cohesive and integrated efforts for data and analytics initiatives.
  • Manage vendor partners/teams to drive new projects /programmes.

Required Qualifications:

• A strong background in data engineering, data science, statistics, or applied mathematics.
• Experience in data management, including knowledge of data warehousing, ETL processes, data governance, data security and cloud-based storage solutions.
• Have proficiency in one of the cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and experience with big data technologies (e.g., Databricks, Spark).
• Conceptual understanding on advanced analytics concepts that includes statistical modelling and algorithms.
• Ability to explain advanced analytics concepts and models to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity of visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Spotfire will be a plus.
• Understanding on Gen AI stack will be a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with the pharmaceutical industry and the specific data challenges and regulatory requirements it faces.

By fulfilling these responsibilities, the Data & Analytics Lead ensures that the organization not only capitalizes on its current data assets but also continuously evolves its data capabilities to meet future challenges and opportunities.

JoB Application End date : 21st May COB

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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