Principal Technology & Analytics

IQVIA™ is the leading human data science company focused on helping healthcare clients find unparalleled insights and better solutions for patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness the power of healthcare data, domain expertise, transformative technology, and advanced analytics to drive healthcare forward.

IQVIA’s Real World Insights is currently recruiting for a Technology & Analytics Leader to focus on insights platforms, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI/ML, leading teams of experienced consultants, researchers and data scientists to support the design, development and delivery of a wide range projects in the life sciences space. Assignments range in complexity and delivery model, from developing new solutions to address specific client problems, to taking global and regional solutions to new clients. The role will require flexibility and creativity in the successful application of technology and analytics to address client needs, as well as collaborating with external partners and providers.

Your experience will be at the interaction of IT and the healthcare industry accompanied by an awareness of relevant IT topics, themes and trends. You will provide value added input, to develop business opportunities that will lead to additional starbursts and to deliver technology-based projects. You have the responsibility for ensuring delivery of high levels of client satisfaction and collaborate across multiple expertise areas.

Responsibilities

• Primary owner of client engagements with ultimate responsibility for client satisfaction and delivering high levels of quality/added value
• Leading team to identify solution components, develop solution concepts and drive the solution design and architecture for insights platforms
• Meets or exceeds assigned revenue targets by developing and delivering insightful, value-added technology solutions that address complex client issues, translate business needs into requirements and functional design specifications
• Responsible for significant and tangible client impact from all engagements.
• Seeks out and identifies new revenue opportunities at existing and potential clients – ensures a continuous flow of business from client engagements.
• Takes lead role in business development (e.g. opportunities identification and scoping) and proposal writing for untapped client segments
• Manages client interface and ensures project team achieves efficient and effective project delivery.
• Serves as a solutions-based expert, internally and externally, by applying consultative problem-solving skills.
• Contributes to the enhanced awareness of IQVIA in the market place, e.g. through speaking engagements, client meetings, publications etc.
• Proactively continues to strengthen subject matter expertise through on the job experience, participation in conferences and symposiums and other forums for professional knowledge sharing.
• Proactively mentors, coaches and shares subject matter expertise with others to elevate our capabilities to deliver world class solutions for clients.

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years professional experience in technology management, client services and/or consulting; e.g., designing, developing, and deploying healthcare information technology-focused solutions
• Proven track record in selling, leading, managing and delivering IT transformational projects involving application of advanced technical/business skills
• Experience/ specialization in Pharmaceuticals or Healthcare, working with healthcare data is an advantage
• Demonstrable analytical, interpretative and problem-solving skills
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including presentations, chairing meetings, workshop facilitation, business and report writing
• Strong capability in managing large and/or multiple projects and juggling priorities so that deadlines are met while retaining consistently high-quality outcomes
• Experience working in sizable/ multi-disciplined teams and leading staff
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with others in and across the organization to accomplish team goals
• Ability to contribute to business development through the identification of leads, development of proposals etc

Qualifications & Other requirements

• Tertiary degree in a relevant discipline e.g. computer science, information systems, engineering, informatics, analytics, data science.
• Familiarity with concepts of service-oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise technology, building SQL and cloud-based solutions for high-scale business applications
• Experience extracting from a variety of data sources including relational databases and a variety of flat file structures (e.g. EDI, CCD,) and clinical data standards, medical terminologies and controlled vocabularies (e.g. ICD, NDC, SNOMED, MedDRA, LOINC, CPT) used in healthcare data and ontologies
• Experience in data modelling and database optimization
• Expertise in data mining approaches within healthcare settings generating insight from routinely collected healthcare data
• Experience in visualization and visual analytics of routinely collected healthcare data is a plus
• Fluency in English (spoken and written)
• Right to live and work in the recruiting country
• A willingness and ability to travel

Join Us

Making a positive impact on human health takes insight, curiosity, and intellectual courage. It takes brave minds, pushing the boundaries to transform healthcare. Regardless of your role, you will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve outcomes for patients.

Forge a career with greater purpose, make an impact, and never stop learning.