[Hiring] Senior Director, Data Sciences and Analytics @Iovance Biotherapeutics

Role Description

Senior Director, Data Sciences and Analytics, provides leadership to the Data Sciences and Analytics Department and provides influence across the Clinical Development organization. As a leader of the Data Science and Analytics organization, and part of a cross-functional team of drug development scientists focused on providing hands-on skills, expertise, and tools to facilitate access, integration, visualization, and exploratory analysis of complex and diverse data in support of clinical development activities and decisions.

• Drive all clinical data management activities and execution of exploratory analysis for scientific considerations related to drug development and clinical study design.
• Define approaches, processes, algorithms, and tools that support the analytics, visualizations, and decision support needs of drug development scientists and projects.
• Build the team with the necessary skills, build relationships with relevant stakeholders, and implement relevant tools and approaches.
• Collaborate with Biostatistics leads and other members of drug development teams to ensure connectivity of exploratory analysis work in support of development, regulatory approval, and market acceptance of products.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Lead a team with diverse expertise to drive the data science objectives across early to late-phase drug development.
• Responsible for all clinical data management activities and assignments including training personnel to the tasks required to operationalize current and future studies.
• Develop novel ways of integrating, mining, and visualizing diverse, high-dimensional data sets.
• Develop and apply novel or existing computational methods for patient segmentation from multimodal clinical and omics datasets.
• Develop, validate, and implement predictive models, and deploy automated processes for producing modeling results at scale.
• Generate novel insights from data and present them via rich and intuitive visualizations.
• Build successful partnerships and seamless interfaces within the department and the broader research and development organization.
• Ensure quality of deliverables by consistently applying analysis and reporting standards, and driving compliance with regulatory requirements, corporate and departmental SOPs, and work practices.
• Drive the development and implementation of innovative strategies and technologies.
• Independently develop, troubleshoot, and maintain complex programs and utilities in accordance with predefined specifications.
• Provide technical guidance to external partners concerning project and data standards, and analysis practices.
• Identify opportunities for increased efficiency and consistency within the organization.
• Adhere to Iovance Biotherapeutics’ core values, policies, procedures, and business ethics.
• Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership of Clinical Data Management function required.
• PhD in a relative quantitative field (i.e., Biostatistics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills are required.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and lead a team of individuals with diverse experience and expertise.
• Mastery in clinical data management systems and industry-wide thesauri.
• Ability to explain technically complex information for a non-technical audience.
• Strong positive attitude, thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with many simultaneous projects.
• Demonstrates the ability to work within budget constraints, while utilizing resources efficiently and in a fiscally responsible manner.

Preferred Education, Skills, and Knowledge

• Experience with oncology drug development is highly desirable.

Physical Demands and Activities Required

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time.
• Must be able to move about inside an office and exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
• Must have visual acuity to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, viewing a computer screen, and extensive reading.
• This position requires repetitive motion, substantial movements of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Must be able to communicate with others to exchange information.

Mental

• Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment, troubleshooting, problem-solving, analysis, and discretion.
• Ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional or remote office environment and requires operating standard office equipment and keyboards.