Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter und Doktorand im Bereich Produktionsmanagement (m/w/d)

Ready to shape the future of AI-powered knowledge management and help transform how a global biopharmaceutical organisation learns, collaborates, and innovates?

R&D Partners is seeking a highly motivated AI Data Analyst to support strategic AI and Knowledge Management initiatives within a global biopharmaceutical environment. This role is ideal for a Master's student passionate about working at the intersection of AI tools, knowledge management, knowledge graph design, information architecture, and user-centric digital product design.

The selected candidate will collaborate closely with the MSAT Knowledge Management Lead to design and deploy innovative solutions such as the AI Academy, Data Academy, Process Wiki - Knowledge Navigator, and related AI-enabled knowledge tools.

Please note that to be considered for this role you must have the right to work in this location.

Responsibilities:

AI Academy & Data Academy Development

• Design learning pathways, training curricula, capability frameworks, and bootcamp concepts.
• Develop practical learning materials, workshop exercises, and reusable academy content.
• Research emerging AI tools and translate relevant use cases into MSAT-oriented training examples.
• Create AI use case catalogues, prompt examples, and practical demonstrations for knowledge work, data work, and process intelligence.
• Support launch communications, stakeholder updates, and executive-ready summaries.

Process Wiki - Knowledge Navigator

• Design a modern digital knowledge infrastructure for processing knowledge, data, and modeling-related content.
• Create intuitive navigation structures, page concepts, mock-ups, wireframes, and proof-of-concept designs.
• Enhance discoverability through taxonomy, metadata, and search-oriented content structuring.
• Integrate multiple knowledge sources into a unified knowledge navigator experience.

AI Tools, Knowledge Graphs, and Agentic Knowledge Solutions

• Apply AI productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Cowork) to accelerate content creation, knowledge structuring, and prototyping.
• Contribute to conceptual knowledge graph design by defining entities, relationships, and metadata patterns.
• Evaluate approaches for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and AI-assisted knowledge retrieval.
• Develop concepts for AI-enabled assistants, process wiki agents, and knowledge workflows.
• Document design decisions, assumptions, and recommendations in a structured and reusable format.

Web Page Creation, UX, and Visual Design

• Design clean, user-friendly web pages and knowledge portal layouts.
• Apply principles of information architecture, UX/UI design, and visual storytelling.
• Create clickable prototypes or lightweight demonstrators where appropriate.

Key Skills and Requirements:

Technical Experience:

• Practical experience in several of the following areas is recommended:
• Generative AI and large language model usage in real-world scenarios.
• AI assistant platforms like Microsoft Copilot or Cowork.
• Knowledge graphs, semantic models, taxonomies, or metadata modeling.
• RAG architecture, semantic search, or AI-enabled knowledge retrieval.
• Web page creation and design using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or modern web frameworks.
• SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365, or enterprise collaboration platforms.
• UX/UI design, wireframing, and user journey development.
• Python, data visualization, or graph database concepts (a plus).

For more information, please contact
Grant Van Schalkwyk.

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Summary
We are excited to invite applications for the Novartis Biomedical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a unique training opportunity designed for exceptional early-career scientists eager to tackle some of the most challenging problems in biomedical research and drug discovery.

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Duration: 3 years

Start date: November 1, 2026 or earlier

Application deadline: September 10, 2026 EOB

About The Role
As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, you will join the AI & Innovation team within Oncology Data Science at Novartis in Basel and pursue an innovative research project at the forefront of biomedical science and drug discovery. You will work alongside leading scientists in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary environment while gaining exposure to the broader ecosystem that translates scientific discovery into medicines.

Our fellows are empowered to ask bold scientific questions, apply cutting-edge technologies, and develop approaches that have the potential to transform patient care.

Research Opportunity
Working closely with pathologists, translational scientists, and drug discovery teams, you will gain exposure to the end-to-end oncology research process, from biological hypothesis generation and biomarker discovery to translational decision-making. Your project will focus on advancing AI-enabled digital pathology approaches to extract clinically and biologically meaningful insights from complex tissue imaging datasets, including H&E, IHC, multiplex immunofluorescence, and spatial transcriptomics. In close collaboration with computational, pathology, and translational teams, you will help identify robust image-derived biomarkers and interpret spatial and cellular patterns in the tumor microenvironment to support next-generation oncology therapeutics.

Why Join the Program?
The Novartis Biomedical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is designed to develop the next generation of scientific leaders and power the future of medicine through rigorous research, and immersive learning experiences, including the implementation of AI tools in biomedical research.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows Benefit From

• Guidance from accomplished scientific leaders and subject matter experts
• Access to advanced technologies, platforms, and research capabilities
• Collaboration across disciplines and organizational boundaries
• A global and diverse community of postdoctoral fellows
• Dedicated programming designed to help fellows thrive throughout their careers.
• Personalized experiential learning opportunities through a Postdoc Practicum that empower fellows to explore new scientific domains, build cross-functional expertise, and expand their impact beyond their primary research project.
• Opportunities to present research, publish in leading journals, and build an international scientific network

We are entering a new era of biomedical research breakthroughs through the convergence of biology, technology, and artificial intelligence tools, and fellows are also supported in engaging with these emerging approaches.

This is a full-time training position of up to three years in duration.

Reimagining Medicine Together
At Novartis, our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. Through this program, you will grow as a scientist and future leader while contributing to discoveries that may ultimately benefit patients worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and apply AI approaches to extract insights from digital pathology imaging datasets (e.g., H&E, IHC, mIF, Spatial transcriptomics).
• Work with foundational models, including pre-trained, self-supervised, multi-purpose, and multi-modal models to advance generative AI applications in drug discovery.
• Collaborate with pathologists and translational teams to interpret image-derived biomarkers and biological findings.
• Contribute to scientific publications and present results at internal and external scientific conferences.

Essential Requirements

• PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) in а relevant scientific discipline, completed prior to the fellowship start date. The program is intended for scientists immediately following their PhD training (graduated in 2026).
• Demonstrated record of scientific achievement (publications, presentations, patents, or equivalent)
• Strong commitment to learning, innovation, and professional development
• Experience analyzing imaging data (e.g. H&E, IHC, multiplex IF, spatial transcriptomics).
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: generative AI, digital pathology foundation models, geometric deep learning and / or multi-modal learning.
• Excellent programming skills and proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, with openness to learning new tools and technologies.

Desirable Requirements

• Prior experience with analysing multi-modal data, including digital pathology.

Important
Please submit your CV and cover letter by 10th September.

In your cover letter, please describe your research interests, career aspirations, and how participation in the Novartis Biomedical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will support your long-term development.

The start date for the 2026 Novartis BR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program cohort is November 1, 2026. Please confirm your availability to meet this date in your cover letter.

Please note that we can only accept applicants who are eligible to work in Switzerland.

Why Novartis:
Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people\-and\-culture

Benefits and Rewards:
Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.

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Are you looking for your next opportunity?
Sompo has a unique opportunity for a
Lead, Portfolio and Performance Analytics
in our newly established
CUO Office
team for
Continental Europe
.

Reporting directly to the Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) for Continental Europe, this role offers a unique opportunity to lay the groundwork for a central function that supports portfolio monitoring and sustainable profitability across Sompo’s commercial insurance operations in Continental Europe. As a foundational member of the CUO Office, you will play a pivotal role in shaping its capabilities, focusing on building robust analytical frameworks and performance monitoring tools from the ground up.

This hands-on position requires a proactive and detail-oriented individual who thrives on creating structure and driving meaningful change. While business decisions will remain the responsibility of underwriters, you will serve as a critical voice in influencing underwriting strategies and supporting data-driven decision-making processes. Your contributions will be instrumental in optimizing portfolio performance, enhancing risk management practices, and aligning operations with strategic objectives.

As the CUO Office evolves, this role offers the potential to expand its scope and contributes to the development of a team that will further enhance the organization’s portfolio analytics capabilities. This is an exciting chance to make a lasting impact on the organization’s success and shape the future of portfolio analytics within a dynamic and globally connected environment.

Location:
This position will be based preferably out of our
Zurich
office, but potential candidates might also sit in our other European office locations in Paris, Milan, Cologne or Munich. We strive for collaboration which is why we offer a work environment where our employees thrive and develop long lasting careers.

Our business, your impact, our opportunity
What You’ll Be Doing

• Portfolio Performance Analysis: Regularly evaluate underwriting performance, identify trends, and analyze profitability, risk quality, and portfolio composition to drive growth and improvement. Prepare quarterly and ad-hoc performance reviews for leadership.
• Underwriting Portfolio Steering: Refine risk appetite, recommend strategies for growth or remediation, support underwriting plans, and monitor execution against targets.
• Risk Aggregation & Management: Analyze risk accumulation across perils and geographies, monitor exposure limits, and integrate data into reinsurance and capital modeling.
• Catastrophe & Scenario Analysis: Conduct catastrophe loss scenarios, assess tail risks, and support stress testing, capital planning, and reinsurance structuring.
• Pricing & Profitability Support: Collaborate with pricing teams to analyze rate adequacy, validate assumptions, and recommend underwriting and renewal actions.
• Predictive Analytics: Develop predictive models and leverage advanced analytics to support underwriting automation and decision-making tools.
• Reporting & Dashboards: Create executive dashboards, automate underwriting metric reporting, and provide data-driven insights for decision-makers.
• Reinsurance Strategy Support: Provide exposure and performance data to inform treaty and facultative decisions and improve retention strategies.
• Regulatory & Capital Requirements: Support regulatory filings, collaborate on risk assessments, and align portfolio decisions with capital efficiency.
• Innovation & Technology: Pilot AI models, integrate new data sources, and drive digitization of portfolio management processes.

What You’ll Bring
This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of commercial insurance, strong analytical capabilities, industry expertise, and a passion for driving innovation to optimize portfolio performance and deliver value to internal and external stakeholders.

• Advanced degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in commercial insurance, with a focus on large corporate industry portfolios.
• Strong knowledge of underwriting principles, risk aggregation, catastrophe modeling, and reinsurance structures.
• General understanding of insurance product coverages, resulting exposures and their triggering portfolio impacts.
• Proficiency in data analytics tools and predictive modeling (Python or R)
• Expertise in regulatory compliance (e.g., Solvency II, NAIC), capital modeling, and risk management.
• Proven leadership and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams and executive management.
• Innovative and investigative mindset with experience in leveraging technology, advanced analytics, and digitization for portfolio optimization
• Natural curiosity with a drive to uncover insights and understand underlying patterns

Our Benefits
We continuously evaluate and update our benefit programs to ensure that our plans meet the needs of our employees and their dependents. Below are a few highlights of our inclusive benefit programs:

• Expansive Health & Wellness Benefits
• Generous Retirement & Savings Plans
• Global Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance

In today’s world, what do we stand for?
We strive to create exceptional value for our clients and shareholders while maintaining Sompo as an attractive place to work. We foster an environment of ongoing, open dialogue between managers and their direct reports, and believe in an organizational environment where everyone belongs. We proudly are a multi-racial, multi-cultural, global enterprise. We reject all forms of racism, bigotry, prejudice and injustice and continue to invest in building out an inclusive and diverse work environment.

About Us
**Expert Partners.

Clarity in complexity.

Unwavering commitment**
.

We are Sompo, a global provider of property, casualty, and specialty insurance and reinsurance.

Building on Sompo Holding’s 135 years of innovation, we seek to deliver a unified approach to servicing and providing customized solutions for our clients, ensuring that we meet their needs effectively and consistently.

We strive to strengthen engagement with our clients and business partners every day by using the in-depth knowledge and insights of our experts to swiftly navigate the ever-shifting risk landscape in a fast and agile way – providing them with the products and coverages they need – underpinned by exceptional levels of service.

Our values
As we continue to evolve and grow, our core values serve as the foundation for our company’s identity, purpose and culture.

• Accountability: Raising the bar on what we deliver
• Agility: Keeping it simple as we grow
• Collaboration: Building relationships with clients and colleagues
• Development: Being curious and having a growth mindset
• Integrity: Being trustworthy and doing what’s right

Around the world, our 9,500+ employees use their expertise to learn, improve and find clear answers for your complex challenges. Because when you choose Sompo, you choose the ease of expertise.

Sompo is an Equal Opportunity Employer
.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To learn more about visit our website at
www.sompo\-intl.com

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Ihre Hauptaufgaben
Du bringst Erfahrung in der Entwicklung oder Validierung von Kreditrisikomodellen mit und möchtest diese Expertise in einem spezialisierten Team quantitativer Risikoexperten einbringen? Im Team löst du komplexe, aktuelle Herausforderungen der Schweizer Finanzbranche und gestaltest die Weiterentwicklung des Risikomanagements nationaler und internationaler Finanzdienstleister aktiv mit.

Als Quantitativer Berater im Financial Risk Management bei EY übernimmst du vom ersten Tag an Verantwortung in Projekten. Du bearbeitest komplexe Aufgaben im quantitativen Risikomanagement und entwickelst deine fachliche Expertise kontinuierlich weiter.

Ausgewählte Themen, in denen du deine Expertise einbringen kannst:

• Unterstützung bei der Betreuung und Weiterentwicklung quantitativer Modelle entlang des gesamten Lebenszyklus bei führenden Schweizer Finanzinstituten
• Entwicklung von Kreditrisikomodellen unter Berücksichtigung regulatorischer Vorgaben sowie nationaler und internationaler Marktstandards
• Validierung und Prüfung von Modellen nach kundenspezifischen Anforderungen sowie (inter-)nationalen Standards (z. B. SR 11‑7, SS 1/23)
• Gestaltung und Beurteilung von Modellrisikomanagement-Frameworks für klassische und KI-Modelle sowie Identifikation und Steuerung modellbezogener Risiken unter Einhaltung regulatorischer Leitlinien
• Beratung und Prüfung im Risikomanagement, einschließlich Stress Testing, Kapitalplanung, Risikolimitierung und weiterer quantitativer Aspekte zur Steuerung und Überwachung von Risiken
• Analyse von Risikomanagementfunktionen, Risk-Appetite-Frameworks und regulatorischer Compliance sowie Entwicklung und Optimierung einer effektiven Governance

Was wir suchen
Wir arbeiten in einem anspruchsvollen Umfeld und legen zugleich Wert auf kontinuierliches Lernen. Die folgenden Punkte bilden die Grundlage für eine erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit:

• MSc oder PhD in einem quantitativen Fach (Mathematik, Physik, Statistik, Financial/Computational Engineering, Ökonometrie) und idealerweise > 3 Jahre Erfahrung in der Entwicklung oder Validierung von Kreditrisikomodellen bei Banken
• Zusätzliche Kenntnisse und Erfahrungen in weiteren Risikoarten, wie Markt-, Liquiditäts-, Gegenparteikredit- oder operationellen Risiken sind ein Plus
• Starkes Interesse am finanziellen Risikomanagement sowie praktische Erfahrung in der Anwendung klassischer und moderner quantitativer Methoden
• Analytische Exzellenz und die Fähigkeit, methodische Genauigkeit mit interdisziplinären Kompetenzen zu verbinden
• Programmierkenntnisse in gängigen Sprachen, wie Python und R
• Interesse an Innovationen und Trends wie KI, Machine Learning, LLMs sowie Nachhaltigkeit im Finanzsektor
• Exzellente mündliche und schriftliche Kommunikationsfähigkeiten in Deutsch und Englisch
• Fähigkeit, komplexe Sachverhalte adressatengerecht zu erklären und verständlich aufzubereiten
• Aufgeschlossene Persönlichkeit mit starken zwischenmenschlichen Fähigkeiten, Eigeninitiative und flexiblem Arbeitsstil in einem multinationalen Umfeld

Was ist für Sie drin
Hier bei EY haben Sie die Chance, eine wirklich aussergewöhnliche Erfahrung zu machen. Wir statten Sie mit der neuesten Technologie aus und umgeben Sie mit leistungsstarken Teams. Durch unsere Coaching- und Schulungsprogramme entwickeln Sie die notwendigen Fähigkeiten und bauen gleichzeitig ein Netzwerk aus Kollegen, Mentoren und Führungskräften auf, die Sie auf Ihrem Weg bei EY und darüber hinaus unterstützen.

Inklusion ist der zentrale Bestandteil unseres Handelns. Wir setzen uns dafür ein, einen Arbeitsplatz zu schaffen, an dem jede(r) gleichberechtigten Zugang zu Chancen hat. Wenn Sie während des Rekrutierungsprozesses Anpassungen benötigen, unterstützen wir Sie gerne.

Klicken Sie hier, um mehr über unsere Vorteile und soziale Verantwortung zu erfahren.

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