Senior Data Scientist Full-time

Senior Data Scientist

Transform healthcare through AI-powered insights that reach millions of patients living with diabetes, obesity, and other chronic diseases.

Your new role

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll be at the forefront of driving AI-powered solutions for consumer health products across diabetes, obesity and other therapeutic areas. You'll leverage cutting-edge machine learning, deep learning, and large language models to deliver scalable solutions that directly impact patient engagement and healthcare delivery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and deploying ML/Deep learning models for consumer analytics, demand forecasting, personalization, and performance metrics that inform critical business decisions
• Implementing RAG-enhanced LLMs and agentic workflows (Langchain, Llamaindex) for content analysis, literature reviews, HCP/KOL tools, and intelligent chatbots
• Developing LLM-powered engines to run targeted campaigns and optimize channel engagements across multiple touchpoints
• Applying advanced statistical methods to analyse campaign impacts, utilization patterns, and patient journeys using rigorous statistical approaches on multimodal data
• Orchestrating end-to-end data pipelines on platforms like Dataiku and Snowflake, ensuring real-time insights, MLOps best practices, and privacy compliance (GDPR/HIPAA)
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to innovate with emerging AI technologies and solve complex healthcare challenges
• Translating business problems into data science solutions that drive measurable impact for patients and healthcare professionals

Your new department

In Enterprise IT and Quality, you will be part of a business area that drives impact across the full Novo Nordisk value chain. We strive to stay close to our stakeholders in the business to ensure we deliver on their needs, helping reach millions of people living with serious chronic diseases. Our focus is on being at the forefront within our three areas: ensuring the highest quality for patients, being a trusted tech leader and an environmentally responsible business.

Within our Commercial AI and Data Solutions team, we're building the future of data-driven healthcare. We combine advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and deep domain expertise to create solutions that enhance patient engagement, optimize healthcare professional interactions, and drive meaningful outcomes across our therapy areas.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for an experienced data scientist who thrives on solving complex problems with cutting-edge AI technologies. You'll bring with you:

• 7+ years of data science experience; pharmaceutical or healthcare experience strongly preferred
• Deep expertise in machine learning and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn) and advanced statistical methods
• Proven experience with large language models, including implementation and fine-tuning (PEFT/LoRA), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain)

• Demonstrated production experience deploying scalable solutions that solve complex business problems in real-world environments

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and drive cross-functional outcomes

• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field (Master's or PhD preferred)

Working at Novo Nordisk

For over 100 years, we've been driven by one mission: creating lasting change for long-term health. As a Senior Data Scientist here, you'll be part of something bigger than code and models – you'll be developing AI solutions that directly impact millions of patients worldwide. We believe innovation happens when diverse perspectives come together, when curiosity meets collaboration, and when bold ideas are supported by a culture of mutual respect. Your expertise won't just advance our digital transformation; it will help defeat serious chronic diseases and improve lives across the globe. This is where your technical mastery meets meaningful purpose.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind. You'll work with state-of-the-art AI technologies, collaborate with world-class data scientists and healthcare experts, and contribute to solutions that are deployed at global scale.