Lead Data Scientist Full-time

Lead Data Scientist

Are you passionate about driving AI/ML within the commercial domain for a global pharmaceutical company? If you're a hands-on lead who turns complex commercial questions into production AI, this is your next move.

Your New Role

You will lead and develop a team of analytics and data sciences specialists while owning and delivering high-impact analytical products for our commercial organization. The role has a primary focus on dynamic segmentation, requiring strong statistical expertise and hands-on experience with ML model development, validation, and deployment at scale. A strong secondary focus will be on marketing mix modeling, ensuring insights are translated into tangible commercial impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of dynamic segmentation that updates in near real time and activates in our data platform (Snowflake)
• Lead enterprise and commercial development frameworks by designing best practices for ML/AI
• Communicate insights, robustness, and validity of the deployed models for commercial stakeholders
• Build, validate, and operationalize MMM and price/promo analytics to guide budget and channel decisions
• Translate business problems into robust analytical designs (data strategy, causal inference, ML) and drive solutions from PoC → MVP → production
• Partner with frontline sales, marketing, and leadership to turn model outputs into decisions and measurable value
• Ensure reproducibility, fairness, and safe operations under GDPR; set guardrails for experimentation and incrementality
• Build reliable model services/APIs with CI/CD, monitoring; collaborate with data engineering on pipelines and observability
• Coach and upskill peers; lead code reviews, design sessions, and promote reuse of shared components

Your New Department

You will join Enterprise AI, a dynamic department dedicated to accelerating AI and agentic AI implementation across the entire value chain.

• Our mission is to collaborate closely with the business and colleagues across Enterprise IT to deliver truly transformative AI solutions.
• Our department of approximately 350 employees drives innovation and measurable impact across Novo Nordisk's global operations.

Your Skills & Qualifications

Strict must-haves

• 7+ years in applied data science; 3+ years in commercial/marketing analytics with demonstrable impact
• Proven experience building and implementing dynamic segmentation (beyond static clustering), activated via CDP/CRM or campaign platforms
• Experience with LLM/GenAI

The top candidate also has these skills and qualifications

• Strong MLOps experience
• Hands-on MMM or marketing effectiveness (incl. price/promo) with clear validation of incrementality
• Strong Python stack (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and solid software engineering practices
• Production ML delivery: model APIs/services, CI/CD, monitoring, model registry
• Cloud experience within Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, while having strong understanding of the data engineering process.
• Strong stakeholder leadership, including director/VP-level engagement
• Understanding of fairness/bias, model risk, GDPR/PII handling
• CLV/RFM and lifecycle measurement; experience with CDP/CRM platforms (Adobe, Salesforce, Braze)
• GenAI (LLMs, RAG), model evaluation/safety; PyTorch/TensorFlow
• Experience in FMCG, retail/eCommerce, pharma, or consumer health
• Consultancy or media-agency background in marketing science

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. We work with curiosity, determination, and a willingness to go beyond expectations. You'll join a culture that values learning, inclusion, and pragmatic problem-solving.

What We Offer

• Rare ownership: Lead dynamic segmentation for a global commercial organization
• High impact: Influence budget decisions and campaign strategy
• End-to-end build: Design, code, ship, and run production services with modern MLOps
• Senior exposure: Direct access to director/VP-level stakeholders
• Autonomy with support: Freedom to set standards within a strong governance framework
• Growth: Coach peers, shape best practices, explore GenAI where valuable

Deadline

Please apply by March 4th – 2026

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.