Medical Analytics Data Scientist

Site Name: USA - North Carolina - Durham, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Posted Date: Feb 26 2026

In Medical Affairs, understanding how effectively we engage with customers, respond to their needs, share appropriate opportunities that align with their interests, share scientific evidence about our medicines that impact our customers’ clinical decisions for patient care, and deliver credible, timely content that is of high quality are all deemed critically important when determining opportunities to be more customer and patient focused.

The purpose of the Medical Unmet Needs Analyst role is to analyze and measure Medical Affairs engagement effectiveness through the use of a variety of data sources and methods/advanced analytics techniques to determine how we can optimize our Medical engagement and content delivery, identify opportunities that will better address and meet customer needs and expectations, and deliver clear insight summaries with recommendations that will drive data driven decision making with the Medical Matrix Teams (MMTs), Medical engagement strategic planning, and other areas within US Medical Affairs.

The Medical Unmet Needs analyst will develop advanced analytics solutions aligned with and guided by Medical business priorities and strategies that answer the most critical business questions around Medical measurement, effectiveness/impact, and optimization. This role will support the Director/lead of the team by using advanced analytics expertise to execute and complete analyses and develop recommendations for US Medical Affairs. This role will also evaluate and align US methods with Global measures and focus as appropriate for the US market sharing best practices and approaches with colleagues in Global, Commercial, and R&D.

This role will apply standard approaches, frameworks, and methodologies and develop an inventory of measures and studies for reference and benchmarking.

• Actively contribute to the development of high quality, advanced analytics solutions and insights for the TAs and US Medical Affairs on measurement and effectiveness/impact as well as resource effectiveness and resource allocation/strategy adjustments;
  Deliver clear, actionable recommendations from the analytic applications in the areas of:

  • Channel effectiveness, diagnostics, and performance measurement across all channels and customer types across TAs and overall USMA

  • Resource allocation and optimization across products and channels for the TAs

  • Experimental design (test/control) analyses

  • Simulation and what-if scenarios for Medical engagement strategic planning

• Develop, apply, and align best practice standards for measurement effectiveness and optimization analytics based on an understanding of the Medical Affairs priorities and challenges, the business model, and the healthcare environment;
  Develop and maintain an inventory of measures and studies for reference and benchmark comparisons.

• Develop innovative approaches for modeling events, customer/patient knowledge, customer/patient understanding, and customer/patient behavior (as appropriate for Medical Affairs) to better isolate channel effectiveness.

• Proactively contribute to the team with advanced analytics ideas and methods for improved and more efficient decision making with measurement, effectiveness, resource allocation, optimization, and impact for Medical Affairs.

• Identify and proactively seek out opportunities for improved advanced analytics methods, approaches, and applications aligned with and guided by Medical priorities by researching industry trends, methods and best practices, academic/external methods applied successfully in business or Medical affairs, and evaluating external benchmarks for competitive value.

• Ensure advanced analytics method application excellence with attention to detail and quality check measures in place;
  Share best practices, demonstrate and further develop business acumen, and ensure customer focus and alignment with critical priorities when developing solutions.

• Build advanced analytics application expertise and earn the trust of stakeholder partners through demonstrated learning, and business…