Job Description

Drive meaningful change

Join us as a (Senior) Data Scientist to deliver high-impact prescriptive models and quantitative solutions that directly improve the outcomes of our pharmaceutical trading decisions.

Get a glimpse of our world

Every day, supply- and demand-side traders at Abacus Medicine make parallel-import (PI) decisions across a complex portfolio of thousands of pharmaceutical products, suppliers, and customers. Price levels, demand forecasts, inventory policies, profitability requirements, and operational processing times are just some of the variables that can determine whether a trade outcome is favorable. Being able to make these trading decisions quickly and confidently in dynamic and uncertain market conditions is one key to success in pharmaceutical PI.

Our Advanced Analytics (AA) team at Abacus supports these decisions at scale, delivering reliable, trusted, and impactful predictive and prescriptive analytics directly to the traders who rely on them for recurring trading decisions. As a part of Abacus’s Data, Analytics & AI department, AA is responsible for the full lifecycle management of AI/ML solutions & advanced recommendation engines. We are a diverse team of nine data, AI & ML specialists working together to discover, develop, and operationalize innovative trading models that support real decision making and drive growth, and we are now searching for our next partner to join us.

Are you ready to embark on this journey with us?

As a (Senior) Data Scientist in Advanced Analytics, you will be responsible for the performance and continuous improvement of mission-critical prescriptive analytics that directly impact daily decision making across procurement, inventory, supply chain, and portfolio management teams. Additionally, you will extend our team’s quantitative capabilities to develop and deliver data science solutions grounded in math, statistics and machine learning that drive real impact across Abacus Medicine Group.

Specifically, your main responsibilities will include:

• Owning the implementation and continuous improvement of prescriptive models that drive inventory and procurement decisions across Abacus Medicine’s pharmaceutical trading activities.
• Working directly with traders to formulate complex business challenges as clear quantitative problem formulations and to explain in business terms the recommended solutions.
• Collaborating across product, data, engineering, and business teams to turn advanced analytics models into well-architected, production-ready decision-support tools.
• Extending our optimization and decision science capabilities with new approaches (i.e. stochastic modelling) and into new domains (i.e. pricing and demand forecasting).
• Advancing the broader Data, Analytics & AI roadmap by taking ownership of internal technical initiatives that improve how we build and operate our analytical services.

Fuel for your success in the role

To be successful in this role, you bring:

• 2-5 years of applied experience as a Data Scientist or machine learning practitioner from an industry or enterprise environment where analytical models have been used to solve real business challenges.
• Practical experience and expertise in advanced quantitative methods, such as machine learning, mathematical modelling, optimization, simulation, operations research, or similar disciplines.
• Hands-on experience across the data science model lifecycle, including development, deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvement. Ideally, you are comfortable discussing end-to-end solution designs and architecture, and you have experience integrating predictive/prescriptive analytics into operational tools or workflows.
• Expertise in the data science tool stack including Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, etc.), SQL proficiency for data wrangling, and software engineering tools such as git and Docker.
• Strong analytics translation skills and problem-solving frameworks that can turn ambiguous business requirements or complex challenges into clear analytical questions, solution designs, and ultimately business impact.
• A collaborative team-player mindset with effective and proactive communications. You know that enterprise data science doesn’t succeed on its own, and you are comfortable working with diverse business and technical roles in a fast-paced international setting.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

You will have an advantage if you have particular expertise or experience with the following subjects:

• Applied operations research or optimization modelling in an enterprise setting for inventory or procurement decisions including experience Python-based solvers such as cvxpy or PuLP.
• Deep learning or reinforcement learning frameworks (i.e. PyTorch, TensorFlow) for decision-making, recommendation, or optimization use cases.
• Modelling uncertainty or stochasticity in an economic or operations context, such as price/supply/demand forecasting or inventory management.
• Developing and deploying data science models from a cloud environment. We work primarily in Azure Databricks, but value experience from other similar cloud stacks (AWS, GCP, ect.).
• AI/Agentic developer tools such as Claude Code or Github Copilot. We use AI tools to scale our human potential, not replace it.

Are you interested?

If you can see yourself in the position, please follow the link and submit your CV to apply. A cover letter is much appreciated.

Would you like to know more about us?

Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn and get an insight into everyday life at Abacus Medicine. For job openings, check our Career page.

Moving Healthcare. Moving You.

In Abacus Medicine Group, you’ll experience the power of Moving Healthcare. With our change mindset, we're moving the industry and improving healthcare as we broaden access to medicine.

But it's not just about moving healthcare, it's about Moving You. You’ll be part of a caring community of more than 1,750 people across the World. With us, you will be valued, empowered, and have a direct impact on driving change. Let's access the future of medicine and make a difference together. Your move.