Senior Clinical Data Scientist

Research & Innovation

Senior Clinical Data Scientist

(Utrecht, full-time, hybrid)

Are you passionate about life sciences research, clinical health data, and nutrition and have an aspiration to lead the team in future? We’re excited to announce an opportunity for a Senior Clinical Data Scientist (aka Senior Health Data Scientist) at the Danone Nutricia Research & Innovation (R&I) Center, located in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Our team operates at the dynamic intersection of life sciences, digital health, clinical operations, medical affairs, and biometric data science within our Global R&I Medical & Nutritional Sciences division. Our mission is to support the development and validation of new medical and nutritional products.

Our key priorities are:

1. Innovate: Develop state-of-the-art solutions using advanced statistical and data science techniques.
2. Generate Evidence by analyzing high-dimensional data in clinical studies, applying advanced statistics and machine learning, conduct post-hoc analyses, reuse historical data and perform meta-analysis/systematic reviews to inform evidence-based decision-making.
3. Leverage Real-World Data (RWD): Analyze high-dimensional health datasets collected from digital health tools via real-world/pragmatic or clinical study settings.

Your contribution will be pivotal in shaping our strategy to deliver results, where you can make a difference through your people management and project management skills. Join us in shaping the future of nutritional products through data-driven insights.

Main responsibilities:

Co-build evidence generation programs and strategic execution:

• Lead and collaborate with colleagues to design and implement evidence generation programs.
• Contribute to the strategic direction by aligning initiatives with scientific roadmaps.
• Understand and actively execute the scientific strategy within efficient project contributions, lead team members to ideate and execute projects within the program.

Data-Driven Impact, through the team:

• Leverage advanced statistical and machine learning models to extract insights from multidimensional data obtained from clinical studies.
• Efficiently collate, process, and analyze real-world data to create and validate new nutritional engines.
• Validation of Digital Health tools, including setting quality criteria and defining in which settings a tool can be used.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and innovation:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Life Science, Digital Health, Biometrics, Data Science, Clinical Operations, and Medical Affairs.
• Provide expert data science and statistical input to enhance decision-making. Contribute to the development of new data science innovations.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of nutritional products through evidence-based insights.

Key deliverable:

This critical role involves proactively leading the strategy and roadmap, driving innovation, and shaping the future of nutritional products through evidence-based insights, through managing team members and stakeholders.

About you

Educational Background:

• You hold a Ph.D. degree (or equivalent experience) with demonstrated working knowledge in the life science/clinical domain.
• You’ve navigated good clinical practices or quality management systems.

Statistical and Data Science Proficiency:

• A thorough experience in advanced statistical and machine learning methods in the health domain.
• Eager to bring innovation in clinical research, including high-dimensional data, secondary use of clinical data, Real-World Data/Real-World Evidence (RWD/RWE), validation of digital tool data.
• Expert in programming languages R and Python, coding standards, best practices, and data standards.

People management:

• Prior experience in leading project teams and strategic thinking, able to work independently, possible ambition to become a team lead.
• Driven by purpose, you’re committed to contributing to Danone’s mission of positively impacting health.
• Your excellent communication skills in English ensure seamless collaboration.

About Danone

At Danone, we offer a complete package of benefits, with a competitive primary salary and yearly bonus, but also benefits like a premium free pension, 30 days annual leave and several discounts on a collective health insurance and even on some of our products. In the Netherlands we also offer a hybrid working environment which enables each team to meet our people's desire for flexibility. Across our 3 office hubs in Hoofddorp, Rijswijk and Utrecht this helps us create better opportunities for connection & synergies across our entities, teams, functions and categories.