Data Scientist Published Clinical Evidence & Intelligence Insights

Company Overview

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

Data Scientist II for Published Clinical Evidence & Competitive Intelligence Insights (all genders)

• Leverage scientific domain and technical knowledge to support clients across Abb Vie 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 Abb Vie.
• Support efforts for streamlining Abb Vie’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 Abb Vie values and behaviors.

• Bachelor’s degree (7+ years of experience), Master’s degree (5+ years of experience) or Ph.D. degree (0-2 years of experience) in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, bioinformatics, biomedical/clinical data science or related field.
• Solid scientific domain knowledge in late‑stage pharmaceutical development, including Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Pharmacovigilance, Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR), or Epidemiology, shown through education or work experience.
• Proficiency in Python is required and experience in front‑end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, React) as well as basic working experience with Linux/Unix‑based OS or Docker is a plus.
• Competence in using GenAI models for knowledge extraction as well as basic understanding of agents and agentic workflows (MCP, A2A).
• Experience in analyzing publications, especially literature, is essential. Ideally also experience with drug pipeline or trial CI databases (e.g. Clarivate’s Cortellis Competitive Intelligence, Citeline’s Trial trove or Pharmaprojects).
• Strong analytical skills to process, analyze, visualize, and present results to variety of audiences. Knowledge of common technologies and formats for retrieval, analysis and visualization of complex data. Experience using relational databases and SQL (Oracle, Apache Hadoop).
• Systematic problem‑solving mind, quick learner and superior attention to detail in developing tailored solutions, high degree of reliability and integrity.
• Ability in working cross‑functionally and in inter‑disciplinary teams, while communicating effectively, both verbally and in writing, with scientists and non‑scientists. Comfortable in a fast paced work environment with constantly shifting priorities.
• Innate scientific curiosity, technical creativity, and innovative thinking. Motivated to break new ground in the field of information analysis and insights generation.
• Excellent written and oral English language skills as well as the openness to travel (10%).

• With a diverse work environment where you can have a real impact.
• With an open corporate culture.
• With an attractive salary.
• With an intensive onboarding process with a mentor at your side.
• With flexible work models for a healthy work‑life balance.
• With a corporate health management that offers comprehensive health and exercise programs.
• With company social benefits.
• With a wide range of career opportunities in an international organization.
• With top‑tier, attractive development opportunities.
• With a strong international network.

Abb Vie is committed to equality, equity, diversity and inclusion (EED&I) – a fundamental commitment that is part of our core values and we are dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and treating all employees with dignity and respect. We take our impact on the environment and our communities seriously and focus on giving back on a regular basis.

Any questions? Feel free to email us at  – we look forward to hearing from you!