SD/VP Data Science and Delivery

We're on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

YOURSELF

• Starting at 14 days holiday per year, rising to 22 days with increased service. In addition to public holidays

• Life Events, Service Awards, Company Outings

HEALTH

• Medical plan

• Annual medical check

WEALTH

• Social security and public housing fund

• Supplementary Housing Allowance

• Life assurance

• Critical illness cover

• Responsible for managing the various technical delivery components for on-time client delivery to requirements.
• Supports client meetings representing technical capabilities or project-specific requests.
• Champions the importance and value of standardization and quality principles for delivery.
• Adapts or develops organizational testing capabilities and methods to solve complex business and engineering problems in tools and testing.
• Promotes a quality culture throughout the organization and drives adoption of and adherence to company policies and standards.
• Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools, and techniques.
• Ensures that all release and deployment activities include test, validation, and configuration management.
• Provides authorization for critical release activity and point of escalation.

• Advocates data governance and data management standards and guidelines within data management team.
• Investigates corporate data requirements, and applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Demonstrates a sound understanding of industry-recognized data structures and standards (CDISC (SDTM), CDASH) and custom client specified formats.
• Continually communicates and improves data management practices.
• Provides expert advice and guidance to enable the organization to get maximum value from its data assets.
• Seeks to automate data management activities where possible.
• Develops processes to enable good data management practices and compliance with data governance policies.

• Defines, executes, and leads the data science strategy and team in line with the company vision, goals, and objectives.
• Establishes data science initiatives based on potential to drive revenue, improve customer satisfaction, and cost optimization, as well as identify opportunities to improve existing processes.
• Develops reports, dashboards, and data visualizations to communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Partners with senior executives and other analytics teams to define project scopes, seamlessly integrate data science across the org, and deliver actionable insights.
• Manages the budget, establishes project timelines, and defines the department's KPIs and metrics to assess the impact and effectiveness of data science initiatives.
• Provides direction and guidance to a high-performing data science team, including regularly assessing and sharing updates on the performance of the team against benchmarks.
• Oversees strict data management, establishes data governance frameworks, and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements (such as HIPAA and GDPR) to ensure the security, usability, and integrity of all sensitive data.
• Stays at the forefront of the industry by exploring and implementing new tools, techniques, and methodologies to solve complex data challenges.
• Fosters a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and agility, encouraging team members to pursue new research and development and explore nuanced ideas.

• Leads the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans.
• Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external).
• Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders and delivery of services and change projects, acting as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them.
• Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined.
• Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback.
• Leads actions to improve relations and open communications with and between stakeholders.

• Advises on financial planning and budgeting. Develops financial plans and forecasts.
• Monitors and manages technology expenditure, ensuring that all financial targets are met, and examining any areas where budgets and expenditure exceed their agreed tolerances.
• Assists with the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making, especially in the areas of service, projects and component cost models and the allocation and apportionment of all incurred technology costs.
• Analyses actual expenditure, explains variances, and advises on options in use of available budget.

• Manages senior individuals and groups.
• Determines and delegates management responsibilities.
• Sets performance objectives, and monitors progress against agreed quality and performance criteria.
• Initiates, develops and monitors effective performance management processes.
• Sets the example for proactively building working relationships within the team, acting as an escalation point for staff and ensuring relationship challenges are addressed.
• Provides coaching and support and delegates responsibilities where possible, in order to achieve corporate objectives.
• Mentors and influences senior individuals in consideration of their career opportunities and contribution to the organisation.
• Leads on formal processes such as compensation negotiations and disciplinary procedures.

• Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, presentational and written communication skills.
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative.
• Willingness to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork.
• Shows initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities.
• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
• Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks.
• Ability to design and implement appropriate functional strategies.
• Ability to identify and implement process improvements.
• Ability to effectively delegate work to team members.
• Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate.
• Ability to communicate and lead change and establish operational metrics for business performance improvement and sustainable profitable growth.
• Ability to analyze financial data and budgets, and projections is required.
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills, with the ability to present clear and concise information.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with internal/external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage provision of consultancy services. In own areas of expertise, able to provide advice and guidance to consultants and/or the customer or other stakeholders through involvement in the delivery of consultancy services.
• Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain.
• Strategic thinker with strong understanding of developing long term high value client relationships.
• Culturally aware and ability to think and work globally.
• Ability to inspire staff to develop to the best of their competencies.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership competencies, like global execution, personal ownership, change leadership, strategic thinking, building partnerships, Customer Focused Leadership, talent development, influencing and leading teams, interpersonal awareness, with managerial level behaviours.
• Financial management and acumen, with an ability to strictly manage a complex and large budget to a demanding target.
• Broad knowledge of current and emerging technologies, technology directions, and strategic application to business needs, including the ability to differentiate between a relevant trend and hype.

• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Customer focus
• Robust
• Decision Making
• Business Acumen
• Dealing with ambiguity
• Organizational agility
• Political savvy
• Building effective teams

• Solid professional experience in the same or very similar role.
• Proven experience managing, leading and mentoring colleagues, directly and indirectly.
• Expertise in budget planning, financial management and workforce management.
• Proven experience owning and delivery P&L budgets to required expectations.
• Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders.
• Experience of regulated environments (GxP, Financial, etc...) or relevant testing experience from another domain that is transferable.
• Solid proven experience of working in and knowledge of medical imaging or clinical development in the life sciences industry.
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience.
• English: Fluent.