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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.