Berlin
Flatiron Health is looking for an Abstraction Managerto help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?
Flatiron Health is a healthtech company using data for good to power smarter care for every person with cancer, around the world. Flatiron partners with cancer centres in the US, Europe and Asia to transform patients' real-life experiences into real-world evidence and create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. Our multidisciplinary teams include oncologists, data scientists, software engineers, epidemiologists, product experts and more. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.
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What You'll Do
Flatiron's International team is bringing our real world evidence business to new markets outside of the US. Our International Clinical team focuses on developing and maintaining new data products in these markets.
Flatiron Health Germany is looking for a data and technology-oriented individual with subject matter expertise in cancer care, who is passionate about the potential for real-world evidence (RWE) to accelerate cancer research.
The successful candidate for this role will drive and manage the success of the Abstraction team across Germany. The team you'll lead plays a crucial role in the building of high quality data products which we provide to global cancer researchers at life sciences companies, academic institutions , and regulatory agencies.
You will be responsible for managing a growing team of abstractors who work remotely throughout Germany. This includes tracking the growth and change in demand for abstraction across our International data products, ensuring abstraction capacity by overseeing and planning abstractor training, and translating this into reliable workforce operations plans. In addition you will:
- Measure and further define metrics to evaluate key performance goals and promote effective and efficient management of the Abstraction team in Germany
- Manage and lead the Abstraction team in Germany (include a remote workforce)
- Build and maintain our Abstraction team, creating an open and transparent workforce aligned to our mission
- Drive effective and efficient processes by developing and implementing standards and practices that drive optimal performance at scale
- Develop an operational framework for abstraction-related processes
- Be involved with with project-management ownership related to abstraction
- Support quality assurance on dataset deliverables
- Advocate for operational and technical solutions that accelerate progress, promote reliability and sustainability of our business processes
- Collaborate with our product, software engineering, and data insights teams to prioritise, develop and scale these data products within Germany.
- Collaborate with other Abstraction teams in the UK and Japan to make informed trade offs and to pursue alignment across markets
Who You Are
You're a data-driven manager with at least 3 years working in a management position. You're excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each and every day. You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who seeks and gives candid feedback, and values the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.
- You have experience managing a diverse team
- You are comfortable with ambiguity
- You meet challenges positively and bring a strong willingness to teach and learn
- You seek to maintain and develop a workforce which is driven and supported to succeed
- You are excited about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture
- You have excellent project management, organisational, and communication skills
- You have strong Excel skills and intermediate SQL skills
- You demonstrate exceptional attention to detail
- You are able to easily learn new software systems and tools
- You are fluent in German (C-level) and have very good English proficiencies (minimum requirement B2-level)
Who We Are
Our people are at the center of everything we do. We strive to foster a culture where our teammates feel equipped and empowered to make meaningful contributions with confidence, compassion, and clarity.