Clinical Modeling & Analytics Solution Lead

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians.  If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com .

This position is based in Northbrook, Illinois. Remote work from certain states may be permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. Candidates interested in remote work are encouraged to apply.

Purpose and Scope :

The Clinical Modeling, Analytics & Operational Excellence team is a high-impact innovation team that applies advanced analytics, real-world data, modeling & simulation, and AI / ML to solve critical challenges in clinical development. This team designs and implements predictive models for patient recruitment and retention, optimizes trial feasibility and site selection, assesses novel clinical endpoints, simulates study outcomes to guide protocol design, and develops innovative operational strategies to reduce execution risk and accelerate timelines.

The Clinical Modeling & Analytics Solution Lead plays a pivotal role in architecting and developing clinical modeling and analytics platforms, transforming prototypes into production-ready solutions, and enabling self-service tools to meet the evolving needs of efficient clinical operation and optimal trial planning / design. This position will collaborate across the business to design and deliver innovative solutions that improve accessibility, scalability, and reliability of clinical trial insights.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities :

The Clinical Modeling & Analytics Solution Lead :

• Architects scalable trial operational data and analytics solutions, ensuring reliability and adaptability to meet long-term analytical needs for clinical trial optimization
• Develops user-friendly dashboards and analytics tools and platforms for operational and feasibility insights that support key stakeholders across clinical trial portfolio
• Translates data modeling and analytics prototypes into production-ready systems, partners with IT and digital teams to automate data & analytics workflows that are accessible to both technical and non-technical users
• Implements processes and pipelines for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining data, analytical, forecasting and simulation models at scale
• Collaborates with stakeholders to refine and adapt solutions for operational use
• Acts as a key point of contact of Clinical Modeling & Analytics team to collaborate internal technical teams (i.e., clinical data enablement, digital / IT teams etc.), and contributes to the assessment of internal / external solutions
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members and colleagues involved in clinical modeling data and analytics projects
• Develops and implements rigorous data governance practices to maintain compliance, security, and scalability in analytics workflows