Associate Director - Data Methods & Solutions (Billerica MA)

About the role

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Responsibilities

• Scientific & Strategic Leadership: Define key scientific questions underpinning evidence strategies; Provide leadership on RWE approaches supporting development and regulatory decisions; Serve as a recognized scientific authority on complex methodological topics; Identify methodological gaps, risks, and opportunities, and define pragmatic forward paths.
• Methodological Expertise: Critically evaluate study designs, analytical strategies, and data sources; Apply deep expertise in statistical theory, bias, confounding, causal inference, and quantitative modeling; Assess whether methodological choices are fit-for-purpose, transparent, and scientifically defensible; Guide complex methodological decisions involving multiple sources of evidence and competing analytical options.
• Decision Enablement: Translate complex analysis into high-impact, decision-relevant insights; Shape evidence used to inform critical questions such as disease characterization, comparator strategy