Senior Data Scientist, RBQM Analytics

AbbVie
North Chicago, Illinois, United StatesFull-timePosted Aug 27, 2026

About the role

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

Purpose

Risk Based Quality Management (RBQM) Analytics is an ambitious team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers with a unique blend of Business, Scientific, and Machine Learning expertise that seeks to unleash the full potential of AbbVies data assets by bringing technology and/or data and insights to the forefront of decision making via fit-for-purpose solutions. The Senior Data Scientist role is a key role to enable application of advanced analytics techniques across clinical development continuum. Drives Analytics innovation and experimentation to enable data-driven insights for complex business problems across R&D by deploying advanced analytics techniques like Machine Learning and Visual Analytics.

Responsibilities

Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions

Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized

In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights

Enables data-driven insights to support of clinical development continuum, including precision medicine

Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development

Identify business needs and support the creation of standard KPIs, reports, and statistical analyses;

Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members.

Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior

Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelors degree statistics, analytics, bioinformatics, data science or equivalent field. Masters degree preferred

Must have 3-5 years of analytics-related experience in clinical research including demonstrated high-level analytics and leadership competencies.

Advanced career level proficiency in R, Python, SQL or other statistical packages. Intermediate-level knowledge of statistical and data mining techniques

Expert proficiency with visualization tools like Spotfire, Tableau, Microstrategy or equivalent

Proven expertise with Machine Learning and other advanced analytics techniques

Demonstrated effective communication skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate analytical and technical concepts in laymans terms

Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills

Demonstrated history of successful execution in a fast-paced environment and in managing multiple priorities effectively

Experience working in Cloud Computing environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc) is preferred

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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Responsibilities

  • Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant.
  • Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards for analytical work products.
  • Develops prototypes, test methods, and algorithms using statistical methods and machine learning.
  • Enables data-driven insights to support clinical development continuum.
  • Ensures adherence to federal regulations and quality standards.
  • Identifies business needs and supports the creation of standard KPIs and reports.
  • Coaches and mentors junior team members.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in statistics, analytics, bioinformatics, data science or equivalent field.
  • 3-5 years of analytics-related experience in clinical research.
  • Advanced proficiency in R, Python, SQL or other statistical packages.
  • Expert proficiency with visualization tools like Spotfire, Tableau, or equivalent.
  • Proven expertise with Machine Learning and advanced analytics techniques.
  • Effective communication skills to convey analytical concepts.

Benefits

  • Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Participation in long-term incentive programs

Skills mentioned

RPythonSQLMachine LearningData ScienceStatistical AnalysisData VisualizationTableauCloud ComputingPredictive Modeling

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