At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. We’re deeply committed to our strategy of being a great place to work. For us, that includes fostering an environment where everyone can be among inclusive, supportive individuals with curious minds.

A company that genuinely follows the science and values individuals at all levels, you’ll be backed and encouraged to speak up, ask questions, and share ideas to push the boundaries of science and continuously learn and explore.

Make the start of your journey a lifechanging one

As part of our Early Talent Programme, you’ll be involved in projects and learning opportunities that have real impact from day one.

Being part of our journey and helping us to provide life changing medicine to patients all over the world and transform lives for the better. Making important contributions and embracing our values to deliver on our purpose. Because regardless of role or level, we all have an important part to play in making a positive difference.

The Data Scientist apprenticeship will be placed within the Site Operations team which sits in Biopharmaceuticals R&D COO. Our purpose is to make great science possible through:

• Innovation, simplification & automation

• Sustainability

• Enhancing collaboration

• Creating a great place to work

• Developing ourselves and others

The Site Operations team is multifunctional, compromising of Customer and Site Services, Estate Development & Capital Programmes, Scientific Services, Safety, Health & Environment and Business Development. As a Data Scientist apprentice, you will be part of the Business Development Team where you will play a key role in organising, studying and drawing insights and recommendations from our data. The Business Development team works collaboratively with all functions across Site Operations, acting as a facilitator and leader in innovation and continuous improvement. Within Business Development our data analysis & governance competencies include service performance, space & asset utilisation and development of a data domain.

Data Science is a broad and fast-moving field spanning maths and statistics, software engineering and communications. Data Scientists have an impact at a strategic and operational level by building and maintaining strong collaborative relationships with key collaborators, subject matter experts and colleagues at all levels of organisation. They engage with the wider Data Science community to share ideas, techniques and experiences.

You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex data problems enabling Site Operations to transform data into useful insights. You'll collaborate with business collaborators to co-create data and analytics enabled solutions that help our teams fulfil our purpose: to push the boundaries of science to deliver life ‑changing medicines.

Example activities:

• Identify and clarify problems an organisation faces and reformulate them into Data Science problems.

• Devise solutions and make decisions in context by seeking feedback from collaborators.

• Working on a variety of data analysis competencies on a tailored development programme

• Working across a variety of projects, providing technical data solutions to a range of issues

• Learning about and using a range of data analytics tools to explore and model data from different IT systems, collecting managing, cleansing, abstracting and aggregating data

• Conducting a range of analytical studies on that data

• Developing a good understanding of data structures and database systems

• Learn effective techniques for data visualisation & storytelling

Training and Development

AstraZeneca will sponsor you through your Data Scientist (integrated degree) apprenticeship at Northeastern University.

The apprenticeship combines working, earning a full-time salary, with fully funded part-time university learning (on average 1 day/week). This will give you the opportunity to gain a BSc (Hons) Data Science qualification, just as you would if you went to university full-time, with the advantage of gaining relevant work-life skills and the excitement of helping to develop new medicines whilst taking your first steps towards a rewarding career.

We truly value Early Talent– their thoughts, ideas and contributions. So throughout the programme, you’ll be encouraged and inspired to speak up, have a voice and make an impact.

Skills and Capabilities

We would be looking for the following attributes from our successful applicants:

• Enthusiastic individuals who are keen to learn and with a genuine curiosity in digital transformation

• Ability to work independently and maintain a high degree of self-motivation

• Team work skills

• Good organisational skills with an excellent attention to detail

• The ability to work on multiple tasks and understanding how to prioritise

• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong number orientation through abilities in Maths and Statistics

• Strong data visualisation skills

• Strong problem solving skills

Entry Requirements

5 GCSEs (or equivalent) grades 9 to 4 including English, Maths and IT

To have achieved or predicted to achieve a minimum of 3 A levels BBB, Maths desirable but not essential

Benefits, open and close dates

To apply for this position, please click the apply link.

This is a 39 month fixed term contract opportunity based in Cambridge with a starting base salary of £21,500 + 11% benefits fund + bonus.

At AstraZeneca, we aim to set you up for success and we recognise the challenges that starting a new job can bring. We therefore offer a relocation package to help with the costs and process of moving for candidates who currently live more than 60 minutes from the site location for this Apprenticeship.

Opening date of advert: 16th January 2023

Closing date of advert: 17th February 2023

Successful candidates will be asked to attend a virtual Assessment day on 28th March 2023

Should you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let us know on your application.

Start date for the apprenticeship programme is 4th September 2023

These positions are not open to those already educated to Bachelors degree level or above – for which we have specific Graduate Programmes, see our website for more details https://careers.astrazeneca.com/students