Visual Data Scientist Leader

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Organization Overview:

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

The Advanced Intelligence (AI) team brings the power of data and advanced analytic capabilities such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, visual analytics and predictive analytics to identify and solve high-value business questions.  The AI team is actively looking for a motivated leader for Advanced Intelligence who will lead the strategic development and implementation of visual analytics solutions for exploratory problems and data story telling work products for explanatory problems.  This role demands a visionary leader to define, execute, and evolve a robust strategy aligned with organizational goals, while fostering operational excellence, compliance, and collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
 

Responsibilities:

• Lead a talented and diverse team of visual data scientists to apply their skillsets in diverse areas such as scientific publications, discovery and business development.

• Develop and implement strategy to improve how data scientists communicate and share their analytical results

• Collaborate with leaders in other information technology functions to deliver visual analytics solutions to business problems

• Partner with business/research teams to identify, scope, and execute visual analytics efforts that answer business/scientific questions and deliver value to patients.

• Maintain a broad understanding of the pharmaceutical business and be fully engaged with business/research teams, bringing an objective voice to the table and facilitating decisions grounded in visual analytics and data science.

• Collaborate with other analytics team members to review and provide feedback on the analytics being done and be willing to seek feedback from other team members about your own work.

•  Stay current with respect to data science and visual analytics methodology, to maintain proficiency in applying new and varied methods, and to be competent in justifying methods selected.

• Collaborate with others to design, develop and deploy enterprise-level analytics capabilities/solutions, including applications in explainable AI.

• Consult domain experts and elucidate workflows to incorporate advanced analytics in tools for users with no background in data science. 

• Ability to influence people to adopt innovative data visualizations and methods.

• Communicate results effectively using data story telling techniques

Basic Qualifications: 

• Ph.D.  or M.S. in Computer Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Engineering with at least 3 years of experience (excluding internships) in the industry OR

• B.S. in one of the above fields with 7+ years of experience (excluding internships) in the industry, including people management experience,

• Leadership experience and ability to grow and develop a team

• Excellent communication skills, with an strong passion for visual data storytelling

• Proficiency with deploying web-based data visualization using d3, HTML and CSS.
   

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Understanding of advanced analytics in statistics and machine learning

• Advanced knowledge of visual analytics algorithms like force directed graph and network diagrams.

• Proficiency with grammar of graphics and data story telling 

• Internal or external consulting experience

• Agility and flexibility to work with very diverse problems and business partners 

• Self-management skills with a focus on results for timely and accurate completion of competing deliverable
   

Additional Information:

• When applying please attach or submit a link to your portfolio of work

• You will be on a hybrid work schedule in Bengaluru, India.

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