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Data Scientist

  • Singapore
  • Studies / Statistics / Data

Job description

  Job facts

Singapore is the Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Headquarters for our Diagnostics Division. The regional Diagnostics IT team delivers services and solutions across the Commercial value chain to the regional business teams as well as 16 APAC countries. We work closely with our business teams, generating business value through innovative solutions.

As a Data Scientist you will be working in our dynamic Business Intelligence team, together with colleagues from technical and BI/analysis background in Singapore.

You will help the regional team to make the step towards using data science methods and principles to generate deeper insights from our data. To achieve this, you will design and implement analytical solutions, provide advice and consulting support to our key business stakeholders and show them value by making quick demos and proof-of-concepts to answer business questions.

As a Data Scientist you will:

• Lead the identification of the analytical use cases in collaboration with

businessstakeholders

• Assess the value of various predictive analytics use cases, define feasibility

anddrive implementation

• Provide architectural & implementation guidance as well as hands-on support

where needed around analytical use cases

• Lead planning and implementation of data mining / predictive analytics projects

solutions

• Communicate findings and market the value of use cases to key stakeholders

inbusiness and IT

• Position data science as the key competency within the enterprise

• Collaborate with our Global Data Science Lab to leverage on global solutions

andexpertise, ensure that region requirements are also considered in any

global design

·  Who we are

At Roche, 91,700 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity. Roche Diagnostics is committed to create a great place to work for its employees and in 2015 we have been accredited as Regional Best Employer Asia Pacific by Aon Hewitt. Individual Best Employer Awards were awarded in Singapore, Korea, China and India.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Desired profile

Who you are

You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

You have a Master Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or equivalent degree and/or experience with specialization in machine learning/data mining. You have at least 2 years of successful experience working as Data Scientist. Additional experience in Business Intelligence and database principles will be useful.

You bring:

• Proven experience to add value and insight by providing advanced analytical

solutions

• Hands-on experience with data mining, machine learning, statistics and

prediction

• Experience with data and statistical languages/tools such as SQL, R, Python,

SAS and similar

• Experience with Big Data architectures such as Hadoop eco System (Hadoop

Map-Reduce, Hive, Impala, Spark, etc.)

• Exposure using visualization tools like Tableau or similar to communicate data

and results with non-technical audience

• Experience in the life science industry or other commercial organizations with

focus on sales, distribution, and service for commercial clients as a plus

• Strong analytical, consulting, negotiation and influencing skills and ability to

communicate to technical & business audience, English language skill is a

must, Chinese language skill a plus

• International, goal oriented mindset with Can do attitude

This role is located in Singapore and might require traveling regionally/globally for approximately 20% of the time.

Apply online with your full resume, current and expected salaries by 11 June 2017 .

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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