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AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
People. Passion. Possibilities. Three words that make a world of difference.
More than a job. It's a chance to make a real difference.
Welcome to AbbVie! 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? Do you want to contribute to improving patients' quality of life through your expertise? In a challenging work environment that offers opportunities of developing and increasing your own skills? Youve come to the right place!
Together, we break through – as a Data Scientist II for Published Clinical Evidence & Competitive Intelligence Insights (all genders)
AbbVie’s global Information Research (IR) group has a mission to unlock information that makes cures possible. Within IR, the Enterprise Knowledge Accelerator (EKA) team is the trusted knowledge partner for clients in R&D and the Corporate Business & Strategy Office (CBSO). EKA drives innovation and enhances knowledge-sharing across the value chain, for better and faster decisions that impact advancement in our pipeline. 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. Our team possesses the scientific and technical expertise to utilize and provide guidance on a wide range of knowledge sources, ensuring high-quality answers for our clients.
The 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.
The Data Scientist should have sufficiently strong background in both science and technology to fulfil this role and demonstrate high motivation to expand their knowledge in a pharma context and as SME for key client groups. The role is expected to collaborate effectively within SPICE, EKA, and the larger IR organization, driving impactful results for all of AbbVie. Responsibilities include developing novel AI-based capabilities for extracting, harmonizing, and monitoring published clinical trial data, real-world evidence, and other competitive insights. They will closely collaborate with internal expert teams to define requirements and integrate manually curated data and insights, thereby supporting pipeline strategy, corporate strategy, and commercial teams with essential intelligence for advancing AbbVie’s pipeline.
Make your mark:
- Leverage scientific domain and technical knowledge to support clients across AbbVie with the most relevant information and published insights for decision-making. Key focus: Competitive Intelligence, Corporate and Pipeline Strategy groups and data.
- Build and design new methods and automated workflows to systematically identify, extract, normalize and database key insights and evidence from publications as well as other published sources using GenAI and other state-of-the-art technology and data science solutions
- Work with key stakeholders and expert teams to identify novel sources for manually curated competitive intelligence and clinical trial data and integrate in existing workflows to democratize access across AbbVie
- Support efforts for streamlining AbbVie’s systematic literature review process and knowledge extraction from (full-text) publication resources
- Provide unique scientific insights and expertise by designing and developing solutions for finding, extracting, curating, and visualizing knowledge from published and internal data
- Monitor and be attuned to new technological trends relevant for knowledge analysis and insights discovery
- Achieve great results, while demonstrating key AbbVie values and behaviors.
This is how you make a difference:
- Bachelor’s degree (7+ years of experience), Master’s degree (5+ years of experience) or Ph.D. degree (0-2 years of experience) in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, bioinformatics, biomedical/clinical data science or related field.
- Solid scientific domain knowledge in late-stage pharmaceutical development, including Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Pharmacovigilance, Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR), or Epidemiology, shown through education or work experience.
- Proficiency in Python is required and experience in front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, React) as well as basic working experience with Linux/Unix-based OS or Docker is a plus.
- Competence in using GenAI models for knowledge extraction as well as basic understanding of agents and agentic workflows (MCP, A2A).
- Experience in analyzing publications, especially literature, is essential. Ideally also experience with drug pipeline or trial CI databases (e.g. Clarivate’s Cortellis Competitive Intelligence, Citeline’s Trialtrove or Pharmaprojects).
- Strong analytical skills to process, analyze, visualize, and present results to variety of audiences. Knowledge of common technologies and formats for retrieval, analysis and visualization of complex data. Experience using relational databases and SQL (Oracle, Apache Hadoop).
- Systematic problem-solving mind, quick learner and superior attention to detail in developing tailored solutions, high degree of reliability and integrity.
- Ability in working cross-functionally and in inter-disciplinary teams, while communicating effectively, both verbally and in writing, with scientists and non-scientists. Comfortable in a fast paced work environment with constantly shifting priorities.
- Innate scientific curiosity, technical creativity, and innovative thinking. Motivated to break new ground in the field of information analysis and insights generation.
- Excellent written and oral English language skills as well as the openness to travel (10%).
What we offer you:
- with a diverse work environment where you can have a real impact
- with an open corporate culture
- 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. We take our impact on the environment and our communities seriously and therefore focus on giving something back on a regular basis. We are committed to equality, equity, diversity and inclusion (EED&I) – a commitment that is fundamental to us. This includes appreciating different perspectives, creating an inclusive culture and treating all employees with dignity and respect.
At AbbVie, your individual contributions count – help us move mountains together. Be a part of our success, grow with us and accomplish more than you could have imagined. Sounds like the perfect career opportunity for you? We look forward to receiving your application! All you need is a complete CV – we will discuss everything else with you in person.
Any questions? Feel free to email us at TalentAcquisition.de@abbvie.com – we look forward to hearing from you!
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