Data Analyst Nottingham, England
Job description
About Verpora
Verpora is a specialised consultancy working in the life sciences industry. We focus on a new and growing area for the sector called Innovative Contracting. In simple terms, the services that Verpora provides helps the manufacturers of medical drugs and devices agree contracts with their customers (National Health Systems and global health insurers) that mean if the supplied products don’t work, the purchaser doesn’t have to pay.
A major challenge in Innovative Contracting is defining what is effective. Unlike a consumer product, where it is relatively clear if a device works or doesn’t, medical technologies have a spectrum of effectiveness. Consequently, companies frequently struggle to demonstrate the true value of their innovations to health system stakeholders. By working as part of the data team at Verpora you will be instrumental in helping use healthcare data to support these conversations and shape the future of Innovative Contracting.
Successful Verpora projects to date have:
- Opened greater availability to medicines for patients in the USA through innovative contracting
- Helped transform national healthcare drug procurement in Latin America & Asia Pacific
- Forged the use of ground-breaking pricing for pharmaceuticals
- Monitored the uptake of new, life-changing medicines across the UK
We are currently looking for two Data Analysts to join the growing Insights Team at Verpora, whose roles will be critical in managing reliable data and creating meaningful healthcare reports and tools. This is an exciting time to work in healthcare analytics and a great opportunity to develop your career at Verpora.
About The Opportunity
The purpose of the Data Analyst role is to create confidence, credibility, and trust in Verpora healthcare data products. Data Analysts achieve this by delivering credible insight through the application of advanced analytics and modelling of healthcare datasets. Data Analysts will be responsible for data collection, data stewardship, data governance, analysis of data and production of reports. You will also work closely with Data Engineering and DevOps to manage the technical data environment.
Your role is pivotal in producing accurate, meaningful reports for publication to Verpora’s clients. You will be a member of a supportive team with complementary skills and your main responsibilities will be data acquisition, investigation of new data sources, and ensuring quality assurance standards. It is perfect for someone who is early in their analytical career and wants to develop further.
Responsibilities
- Manages end-to-end collection of datasets and facts via primary and secondary research in a timely and reliable manner; data for regular production reports and desk research into potential new reports or analyses
- Sources and uploads data acquisitions into the Verpora technical environment, retaining documentation and audit trail to source
- Compilation, data input and checking of non-structured data
- Manages quality assurance and production of exception reports for Verpora products
- Sets quality standards for insight products released to customers. Proactively assesses the quality and correctness of data outputs and client reports, prior to release. Manages compliance process including education, interventions and trouble-shooting
- Application of statistical and quantitative techniques to healthcare data, to produce feasibility recommendations of potential new reports, e.g. evaluate sample sizes and coverage, conduct desk research on latest market trends
- Explores new healthcare data and how it is integrated and analysed within Verpora data environment
Team Responsibilities
You will sometimes be involved in:
- Data stewardship and governance of data
- Application of analysis to create regular reports in a timely manner
- Building new reports and analysis according to specification
- Creation of credible insight and meaning from healthcare datasets through advanced analytics
- Development of evolving data architecture functions and development of new insight tools
- Collaboration in product iterations and content in response to customer feedback
- Application of advanced analytics, machine learning & AI to healthcare datasets
About you
You are passionate about the correct use of data and pride yourself in high standards around the application of data. You love experimenting with the application of analytics to find meaning and can communicate complex concepts clearly and easily. You are collaborative and enjoy working as part of a team, have a positive mindset and can-do attitude.
Core competencies
- Attention to detail
- Critical thinking
- Creative problem solving
- Innovation
- Results orientation
- Collaboration and good team-working
Technical competencies
- Data analytics
- Business analytics
- Market research
Experience, knowledge and skills
- Understands and can demonstrate application of research and data collation methods
- Experience in interrogating, filtering, and sourcing data from databases
- Experience in quantitative methods and the application of mathematical concepts, logical reasoning and statistics to solve analytical problems
- Proficiency in Excel
- Numerate or sciences degree, or relevant work experience
- Data governance and quality good practice and legislation
Desirable or a desire to learn
- Proficiency in programming languages - SQL, SQL server, database mining
- Interest in programming for machine learning in R / python environments
- Quality assurance and data management tools, such as AWS, Alteryx, Tableau Prep
- Advanced analytics or practical expertise in modelling, decision trees, algorithms, and advanced analytics
- Experience in data dictionaries and documentation systems
- Knowledge and/or experience of healthcare systems and data
- Knowledge and/or experience of pharmaceutical industry
Terms of Employment
Job Title: Data Analyst (DA002)
Working Hours: 37.5 hours/week (full time)
Statutory Holiday Allowance: minimum 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
Office location: Nottingham (NG1 5BQ)
In office / remote working: Flexible 80% in office, 20% remote working negotiable dependent on candidate
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £29,500.00-£35,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Nottingham, NG1 5BQ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Nottingham, NG1 5BQ
Application deadline: 25/09/2023
Reference ID: DA002
Expected start date: 06/11/2023
