Data Scientist

1448 CFR Lafrancol SAS; Bogotá; On-site; COP 90,000,000 - 150,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott, a global healthcare leader, is seeking a Data Scientist for its Bogota, Colombia office. You will join the Advanced Analytics team to drive data-driven solutions across manufacturing, finance, supply chain, and commercial use cases.

The role requires at least 3 years of experience in data mining, statistical modeling and machine learning, with programming in Python or R, and fluency in Spanish and English. Abbott offers diverse opportunities and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data mining, statistical modelling, predictive modelling and development of machine learning algorithms.
• Programming experience in Python or R.
• Fluency in Spanish and English (bilingual).

Responsibilities

• Participate in data collection, cleaning, analysis and interpretation (EDA).
• Collaborate with business partners and product owners to ideate data-driven solutions.
• Generate insightful visualizations to communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Conduct model selection, validation and explore deployment options with the engineering team.
• Write high quality code with deployment considerations in mind.
• Understand and extend existing code base for deployment in new regions or use-cases.
• Share learnings with other data scientists in a collaborative environment.
• Lead analytics tasks in collaboration with Senior Data Scientists.
• Engage with key business stakeholders and relevant communities to maintain strong relationships.
• Build robust analytics solutions to address business needs leveraging market resources.

Skills

Data mining

Statistical modelling

Predictive modelling

Machine learning

Python

R

English

Spanish

Education

B.S. in applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, or applied statistics

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to: Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of . A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. The Opportunity Abbott Established Pharmaceutical Division (EPD) is looking for a Data Scientist for its Colombia office based in Bogota.

About the Advanced Analytics team: The central Advanced Analytics team at the Abbott Established Pharma Division’s (EPD) headquarters in Basel helps define and lead the transformation towards becoming a global, data-driven company with the help of data and advanced technologies (e.g., Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Computer Vision etc.). To us, Advanced Analytics is an important lever to reach our business targets, now and in the future; It helps differentiate ourselves from our competition and ensure sustainable revenue growth at optimal margins. Hence the central AA team is an integral part of the Strategy Management Office at EPD that has a very close link and regular interactions with the EPD Senior Leadership Team. With the above requirements in mind, EPD is looking to fill a role of a Data Scientist, in Bogota, Colombia reporting to the Senior Manager Data Science Solutions. He/she must be internally driven with high level of ownership, responsible for developing impactful data driven solutions. He/she must be open to work on problems from diverse functions ranging from Optimized Manufacturing (Operations), Time series forecasting (Finance & Supply chain), Optimal route planning (Commercial) etc.

What you'll do

• Participate/drive data collection, cleaning, analysis and interpretation (EDA)
• Collaborate with the business partner and product owners to ideate on solutions to challenging problems
• Generate insightful visualizations to communicate findings
• Carry out model selection, validation and possible ways for deployment (in collaboration with the engineering team)
• Write high quality code with possibility of deployment in mind
• Understand the existing code base, extend and adapt it for deployment in a different region/use-case
• Share the learnings and findings with other data scientists contributing to the collaborative environment
• Collaborate with Sr. Data Scientists and take full responsibility for analysis and modeling tasks
• Help build and maintain a close contact to key business stakeholders and relevant communities
• Build effective and efficient AA solutions to business needs, leveraging available market resources as much as possible
• Keep himself/herself committed to continuous learning about the latest trends and technologies

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, applied statistics.
• At least 3 years of relevant working experience, ideally in pharma environment
• Strong experience in e.g., data mining, statistical modelling, predictive modeling and development of machine learning algorithms
• Programming experience in Python (preferred) or R
• Fluency in Spanish and English a must, additional languages a plus

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is N/A In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY: IT Operations DIVISION: EPD Established Pharma LOCATION: Colombia > Bogota : Building II ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: No MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: No SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Not Applicable

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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