Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Job Field
- Data
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop predictive analytics and optimization models to enhance decision-making in procurement and inventory management, collaborating closely with internal teams on implementing data-driven solutions.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- 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.
- 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.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- 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.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
Experience
- 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.
What we offer
- 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.
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About Your Employer
Abacus Medicine
Abacus Medicine A/S, a renowned company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializes in parallel trade and import of pharmaceuticals. Since 2004, the company has been ensuring that medications are available at fair prices and is recognized as one of the leading providers in this sector. With locations in Austria and Germany, Abacus Medicine operates in various business areas, including pharma trading and pharma wholesale.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical Sector, Chemical Industry, Biotech
Senior Data Scientist
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
