Data Journalist

Lensa; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading career site is seeking a Data Journalist for Norstella, focusing on creating compelling data-driven stories to influence the pharmaceutical industry. This role involves collaboration in a global editorial team, utilizing data insights for impactful journalism while ensuring timely delivery of industry analysis.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Provident Fund

Life Insurance

Reimbursement of Certification Expenses

Gratuity

24x7 Health Desk

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in journalism, corporate data science, or similar
• Excellent knowledge of programming languages, such as R or Python
• Ability to work with data visualization tools

Responsibilities

• Create data-driven stories and data visualizations.
• Collaborate with the editorial team for data analysis.
• Write detailed articles presenting data analysis.

Skills

Statistical tools

Data visualization

Excellent written communication

Research skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, maths, statistics, or a related field

Tools

R

Python

MS Excel

Job description

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Data Journalist

Company: Norstella

Location: Remote, India

Date Posted: Jan 8, 2025

Employment Type: Full Time

Job ID: R-495

Description

About Norstella

At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.

Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each Organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) Delivers Must-have Answers For Critical Strategic And Commercial Decision-making. Together, Via Our Market-leading Brands, We Help Our Clients

• Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle
• Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market
• MMIT – identify barrier to patient access
• Panalgo – turn data into insight faster
• The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics
  
  

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.

The Role

At Citeline (a Norstella company), we have an exciting opportunity for a Data Journalist to join our international editorial team and become part of an industry-leading pharma, medtech and consumer health intelligence business.

Our editorial team is passionate about delivering accurate, timely, and impactful information that shapes industry decisions. Our dedicated team of writers based in countries around the world collaborate around the clock to keep our subscribers up to date, not just on what’s happening in the pharma/medtech/consumer health industries, but what it means for them. You’d be joining a group of products with an 80+-year reputation for in-depth news and analysis and a wealth of journalistic experience and industry knowledge.

We are looking for an experienced data journalist who understands that data makes for stronger and more compelling stories and helps to drive our subscription revenue and volume.

As a member of our team, you’ll work with a group of journalists to create insightful and captivating news stories and features that deliver value to our subscribers and support their decision-making.

If you use statistics to facilitate the writing and reporting of stories and news on a range of pharmaceutical industry related topics, then you may be a perfect match for this role.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Use Norstella databases and other data sources to create data-driven stories and brainstorm ideas on their development and visualisation
• Create compelling data visualisations and find patterns in data
• Identify opportunities for sharing data and tools
• Assess leads and pitch captivating story ideas to editors
• Work well independently or in a team
• Explore opportunities for using AI in content creation Requirements
• Present data insightfully and with context to other team members and management
• Prioritise and multitask to meet deadlines
• Write detailed articles presenting your data analysis
• Visually depict complex ideas clearly, accurately and creatively
• Possess excellent organisational skills and work well in a team
• Possess exceptional writing and research skills
• Use statistical tools and graphics packages to present data stories to a wider audience, including those with a non-statistical background
• Collaborate with the editorial team to provide data and support data analysis for the creation of editorial content
• Process, clean and verify the integrity of data used for analysis and editorial content
• Work independently on longer-term data reports/analysis/projects
• Develop interactive data/graphics around key subjects
• Produce data-rich content
• Produce trend analyses using data
• Identify and integrate new data tools, methods, techniques into editorial content
• Extensive experience with modelling statistical relationships and predictive analytics, using both regression-based and machine-learning methods
• Use statistical tools to identify statistical trends and present results in a clear manner
  
  

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, maths, statistics or a related field
• At least five years of experience in journalism, corporate data science or academic social or natural science
• Excellent knowledge of programming languages, such as R or Python
• Advanced MS suite skills, particularly Excel
• Ability to work with data visualisation tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  
  

Our guiding principles for success at Norstella

01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First

We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.

02: Integrity, Truth, Reality

We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.

03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace

We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.

04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance

We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.

05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning

We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Provident Fund
• Life Insurance
• Reimbursement of Certification Expenses
• Gratuity
• 24x7 Health Desk
  
  

Norstella is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behavior and our business requirements. Norstella operates a zero tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.

Sometimes the best opportunities are hidden by self-doubt. We disqualify ourselves before we have the opportunity to be considered. Regardless of where you came from, how you identify, or the path that led you here- you are welcome. If you read this job description and feel passion and excitement, we’re just as excited about you.

Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.

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Employment type

• Employment type

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Job function

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• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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