Global R&d Demand and Business Knowledge Data Scientist

**Date**:30 Jul 2025

**Department**:Portfolio Management

**Business Area**:Accounting/Finance & Control

**Job Type**:Direct Employee

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Location**:Parma, IT

**_About us_**
- Based in Parma, Italy, Chiesi is an international research-focused pharmaceutical and healthcare group with 90 years’ experience, operating in 31 countries with more than 7,000 employees (Chiesi Group). To achieve its mission of improving people’s quality of life by acting responsibly towards society and the environment, the Group researches, develops and markets innovative drugs in its main therapeutic areas**:Discover more here**
- We are proud to be the largest global pharmaceutical group to be awarded **B Corp Certification**, a recognition of **high social and environmental standards**. We are a **reliable** company that adopts and promotes a **transparent and ethical behavior** at all levels.
- We believe that the success of **Chiesi is built and shaped by our people and our strong set of shared Values and Behaviors**. Our people make a critical difference to our success, which is why it is vital that we attract and retain the right talent who will continue to enrich our culture by living and breathing our values and behaviors.
- In fact, we are a global family made up of different cultures, different genders, generations, ethnicities, abilities, sexual identities and many other enriching diversities.

**_Chiesi Research & Development_**
- Our R&D team represents a fundamental asset for the business. It is divided into integrated functional areas focusing on pipeline projects including discovery and preclinical research, global technical development, drug delivery technology, clinical development, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, intellectual property, quality assurance, R&D project and portfolio management. Headquartered in the new purpose-built and fully integrated Research and Development Centre in Parma (Italy), the team also has important operations in Paris (France), Chippenham (UK), Cary (US), Stockholm (Sweden), Toronto (Canada) and Shanghai (China).

**_Who we are looking for_**

**Purpose**
- We are looking for a motivated R&D Demand and Business Knowledge Data Scientist to join our R&D Portfolio Management team.**Main Responsibilities**
- Develop reliable analyses for Chiesi Governance Bodies and Senior Management, leveraging data science methodologies, on the value and composition of Chiesi pipeline, including long-term projections on timelines, costs and resource demand, and projects’ probability of success, with the aim of enabling a correct decision making to maximize the business value delivery of Chiesi pipeline.
- Design and manage project cards to enable a standardized evaluation of business cases for pipeline projects and collaborate with BD to ensure consistency of treatment of projects in pipeline vs new external opportunities evaluations, acting as a point of reference for project teams.
- Organize and manage discussions during XRC meetings ensuring Company cross-functional alignment on project assumptions regarding different inputs of projects’ business cases, ensuring robust assumptions feeding the pipeline review.
- Co-design and deliver in close collaboration with Global Strategy the Pipeline reviews, with useful insights to optimize and prioritize Chiesi pipeline projects.
- Support qualitative and quantitative R&D Strategy definition and refresh.
- Support short
- and long-term R&D workload assessment and decision making on R&D headcount requests based on these projections.
- Maintain and improve R&D long-term planning, Portfolio management and benchmarks processes and tools, incorporating data science techniques.
- Act as a reference point for data analysis and modeling within the unit, contributing to cross-functional innovation projects.

**Activities**
- Conduct comprehensive evaluations of Chiesi projects and assets in pipeline using scientific and commercial inputs provided by functional teams to inform decision-making and leveraging data science methodologies.
- Design, manage and maintain standardized project cards to evaluate business cases across Chiesi pipeline, ensuring they effectively capture all critical information required to support informed decision-making processes and consistency between internal projects and external opportunities valuation.
- Support project teams by offering expertise and clarification on the use and structure of project cards.
- Organize and manage discussions during dedicated XRC meetings to validate and align on project assumptions, ensuring robust and shared inputs for business case evaluations.
- Co-develop and execute Pipeline Review processes in collaboration with Head of DBK and Global Strategy, providing actionable insights to optimize and prioritize Chiesi pipeline projects.
- Support the definition and periodic refresh of the R&D strategy through the collection and elaboration of both qualitative and quantitative