Senior Pharma Data Scientist — Hybrid, ML for Drug Dev

Placements24; Randburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical aid

Retirement savings plan

Professional development opportunities

Performance bonuses

Job summary

Placements24 invites a Senior Pharmaceutical Data Scientist for Randburg, Gauteng, a hybrid role balancing remote analysis with in‑office collaboration.

You will apply statistics, ML, and data wrangling to clinical, R&D, and manufacturing datasets, shaping drug development and patient outcomes.

Join a leading pharmaceutical company and mentor junior data scientists while ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of pharmaceutical or biotech data experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python or R and ML techniques.
• Experience wrangling data from clinical databases, LIMS, and manufacturing systems.
• Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement statistical models and ML algorithms.
• Extract, clean, and transform data from diverse sources.
• Identify trends and insights to support drug discovery and manufacturing decisions.
• Design experiments including clinical data analyses and predictive modeling.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Mentor junior data scientists and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Stay current with advances in data science applications in pharma.

Skills

Python

R

Machine Learning

Statistical Modeling

Data Mining

SQL

NoSQL

Tableau

Power BI

Data Visualization

Education

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

NoSQL

Job description

Placements24 invites a Senior Pharmaceutical Data Scientist for Randburg, Gauteng, a hybrid role balancing remote analysis with in‑office collaboration.

You will apply statistics, ML, and data wrangling to clinical, R&D, and manufacturing datasets, shaping drug development and patient outcomes.

Join a leading pharmaceutical company and mentor junior data scientists while ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance.