This is what you will do: The Epidemiology andRealWorldScience team in Alexion–AstraZeneca's Rare Disease Unit accelerates patient access to innovative medicines by advancing the scientific use of Real WorldData (RWD) .
In this role, you will apply RWD to support the rare disease portfolio, aligned with AstraZeneca best practices and standards.
Building on AstraZeneca's strong Real WorldEvidence (RWE) foundation and internal data assets, the team is expanding through a dedicated Real World Data Science capability.
Successful candidates will tackle challenging problems with innovative methods to deliver Real World Insights and Evidence for stakeholders in Clinical Development, Regulatory, and Patient Safety .
The ideal candidate is a curious,selfdirectedlearner with a proven record of deriving value from routinely collected healthcare or observational data, delivering health analytics across Public Health, Pharmaceutical R engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.
We would prefer for you to have: This is ahands-onrole – so be excited to code!
Enthusiastic about building on and learning new methods and ways to use real world data to change the practice of medicine Demonstrated ability to build long-term relationships withstakeholders,understand relevant scientific/business challenges at a deepleveland translate into a programme of data science activities to deliver value to the business Hands-on experience with EMR, disease registries, and/or insurance claims databases Experiencewith inclinical data standards, medical terminologies and controlled vocabularies used in healthcare data and ontologies (ICD9/10/SNOMED) Experience in supporting pharmacoepidemiology studies with proventrack recordof advancing approaches with statistics/machine learning/data science Ability to lead