E121 Nimit Jain, Head of Data Science ACOE at Novartis

Today's guest is Nimit Jain, Head of Data Science with the Analytics Centre of Excellence at Novartis. Novartis are reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. As a leading global medicines company with products reaching nearly one billion people globally, Novartis use innovative science and digital technologies to create transformative treatments in areas of great medical need.

With years of experience in applying innovative analytics techniques in complex environments working with Big Data, Nimit is responsible to establish and grow a Data Science team to be multi-disciplinary and globally aligned with Novartis strategy. He also supports and leads initiatives to establish new capabilities and skills in the broader IT organization focusing on the intersection of data, technology and science.

In the show, Nimit will tell you about:

His Data Science journey before joining Novartis,

The exciting work going on within Data Science at Novartis,

The importance of Data Modeling in the Pharmaceuticals industry,

What he looks for when hiring Data Scientists,

Advice to Data Scientists starting their career,

and New trends and challenges he is seeing in the marketplace