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It's a chance to make a real difference.
As part of an international company with 48,000 employees worldwide and around 3,000 employees in Germany, you will have the opportunity of addressing some of tomorrows unmet medical needs in close collaboration with your colleagues. Are you passionate about improving global health care? In a challenging work environment that offers opportunities of developing and increasing your own skills? Together, we break through – as Senior Data Scientist II – Therapeutic Modality Insights & Competitor Intelligence (all genders)
AbbVie’s global Information Research (IR) group has a mission to unlock information that makes cures possible. The team is a global organization, with presences at the Lake County, Illinois headquarters and Boston, Massachusetts areas (US), as well as the Ludwigshafen site (Germany). Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and scientific expertise, we deliver industry-leading capabilities to harness insights from published content for high-impact decision-making. The Senior Data Scientist will join the Solutions for Published Insights and Client Enablement (SPICE) team, supporting AbbVie’s R&D, CBSO and other business functions enterprise wide. SPICE provides business partnership, resource consultancy, ad-hoc research support for business-critical questions, knowledge and insights mining and analysis, as well as designing and building innovative self-service solutions for insights generation from published resources and internal knowledge. This includes literature, patent, conference, news, clinical trial, and competitive intelligence data such as competitor pipelines.
As a Senior Data Scientist on the Solutions for Published Insights & Client Enablement (SPICE) team, you will serve as the lead data scientist focused on advancing AbbVie’s competitiveness by driving Therapeutic Modality Knowledge & Intelligence Solutions. Your leadership will enable AbbVie to leverage high-value insights extracted, harmonized, and integrated from literature, patents, news, and competitor intelligence. In this role, you will collaborate cross-functionally with other EKA/IR and business teams to develop and deploy AI-powered and data science solutions that support AbbVie’s pipeline strategy, corporate strategy, and R&D initiatives. Apply broad expertise in knowledge & information science, Generative AI/NLP, data warehousing, and software development to build robust data pipelines and analytical workflows for large and complex published (often unstructured) data, including literature publications, patents, news/press releases, and competitor pipelines.
Operate with high autonomy and productivity, proactively tackling complex problems and driving multiple projects with minimal supervision.
Pursue and evaluate relevant external and internal leads in novel modalities, new technologies, and data sources—rapidly incorporating new findings into project strategies and generate novel, actionable insights for R&D and business strategy.
Mentor or supervise junior data & information scientists.
Ensure adherence to AbbVie’s standards of compliance, data security, GxP, and code of conduct.
PhD (with 4+ years relevant experience) in life sciences (biology, pharmacology, chemistry, biotechnology, bioinformatics, pharmacy, medicine, biomedical data science, or related). Equivalent experience considered at Master's (10+ years) or Bachelor's (12+ years) level. Deep knowledge of emerging therapeutic modalities, such as biotherapeutics (ADCs, mAbs, multispecific antibodies, cell therapies, etc.), different types of degraders, gene therapies (AAV, lentiviral, CAR-T, CRISPR, etc.), Hands-on expertise with extraction and integration of knowledge from literature, patents, competitive intelligence databases (e.g., Solid knowledge of applications and pitfalls in applying current GenAI models, their prompting, and embedding them in larger Python-based workflows to automate knowledge extraction tasks. Solid background in programming, informatics, and data science. Proficiency in Python required; familiarity with data engineering, software development principles, relational databases and SQL as well as common formats/APIs. Knowledge of data pipeline frameworks, text mining, NLP, semantic enrichment, ontologies is a plus.
Comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic, multidisciplinary, and collaborative settings, and balancing multiple projects with constantly shifting priorities.
Excellent written and oral English language skills as well as the openness to travel (10%)
with a diverse work environment where you can have a real impact
with an attractive salary
with an intensive onboarding process with a mentor at your side
with flexible work models for a healthy work-life balance
with a corporate health management that offers comprehensive health and exercise programs
with company social benefits
with a wide range of career opportunities in an international organization
with top-tier, attractive development opportunities
with a strong international network
At multiple times, we have been globally recognized as a "Great Place to Work" and we are proud to provide our employees with the flexibility to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Sounds like the perfect career opportunity for you? de@abbvie.AbbVie setzt sich für Chancengleichheit ein und verpflichtet sich, mit Integrität zu arbeiten, Innovationen voranzutreiben, Leben zu verändern und unserer Gemeinschaft zu dienen. Chancengleichheit bei Arbeitgeber/Veteranen/Behinderten.