Senior Manager, Data Science — Drug Development & AI Analytics

Bristol Myers Squibb; Denham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science to join the Drug Development Data Science & Advanced Analytics team in the UK. You will lead exploratory and confirmatory analyses across clinical trial, genomics, proteomics, imaging, and more to inform decisions that advance our development pipeline.

The role combines computational science, statistics, and drug development, requiring collaboration with translational medicine, statisticians, data engineers, and clinicians.

Qualifications

• PhD in a quantitative field with 1+ years of experience, or a Master's with 3+ years in industry.
• Strong data science and statistical analysis experience with clinical trial or EHR data in pharma R&D.
• Experience developing and validating statistical and machine learning models on high-dimensional data for time-to-event, longitudinal, and multivariate outcomes.
• Experience applying AI/ML with Python, R, SQL and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Databricks).
• Familiarity with clinical trial design, drug development processes, and biomarkers in decision-making.
• Ability to accelerate drug development with innovative data approaches.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop novel computational methods for patient segmentation, biomarker discovery, and hypothesis generation from multimodal data.
• Execute data science analyses on datasets from trials and real-world cohorts across multi-omics modalities.
• Develop approaches to integrating, mining, and visualising diverse high-dimensional data across development stages.
• Formulate, implement, test, and validate predictive models and scalable delivery processes.
• Apply ML capabilities including AI/ML, deep learning, NLP, causal ML, and explainable AI across data modalities and development contexts.
• Apply rigorous survival analysis, longitudinal/mixed-effects modelling, and missing data handling.
• Contribute to scientific and statistical strategy for drug development programs.

Skills

Data science

Statistical analysis

Collaboration

Communication skills

Education

PhD in quantitative field

Master's in quantitative field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

AWS/Azure/Databricks

Job description

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science to join the Drug Development Data Science & Advanced Analytics team in the UK. You will lead exploratory and confirmatory analyses across clinical trial, genomics, proteomics, imaging, and more to inform decisions that advance our development pipeline.

The role combines computational science, statistics, and drug development, requiring collaboration with translational medicine, statisticians, data engineers, and clinicians.