Requirements
The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, with a minimum of 2 years of experience working with healthcare datasets within hospitals, clinics, healthcare groups, medical centers, or health insurance organizations. Proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, SQL, and Python/R is required, along with experience in preparing healthcare reports and handling various healthcare data types. Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills are also essential.
Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
Healthcare
Company Industry
Retail
About Al-Futtaim Group
Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.
By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.
Use data to improve healthcare outcomes across one of the UAE's leading healthcare networks
HealthHub, part of Al-Futtaim Health, is seeking an experienced Healthcare Data Scientist – Clinical Analytics & Business Intelligence to join our corporate team in Dubai Festival City.
This role sits at the intersection of healthcare operations, advanced analytics, reporting, machine learning, and business intelligence.
We are seeking a candidate who understands how hospitals, clinics, and healthcare providers operate and can transform complex healthcare data into practical insights that improve operational performance, patient outcomes, healthcare utilisation, and business decision-making.
Important
This position is suitable for candidates with experience working directly within:
Hospitals
Clinics
Healthcare groups
Medical centres
Healthcare providers
Health insurance organisations
Candidates whose experience is limited to academic research, laboratory-only analytics, or non-healthcare business intelligence environments are unlikely to be suitable for this role.
About the role
The Healthcare Data Scientist will work closely with clinical leadership, finance, operations, revenue cycle management, quality teams, and executive stakeholders to deliver:
Advanced healthcare reporting
Predictive analytics
Machine learning solutions
Clinical and operational dashboards
Data-driven business recommendations
The successful candidate will combine strong healthcare domain knowledge with technical expertise in Power BI, Tableau, Python, SQL, and healthcare analytics.
Key responsibilities
Healthcare Analytics
Analyse operational, financial, clinical, claims, pharmacy, patient activity, and healthcare utilisation datasets.
Develop actionable insights to improve operational performance and patient outcomes.
Support performance improvement initiatives across HealthHub facilities.
Business Intelligence & Reporting
Design and maintain Power BI and Tableau dashboards.
Develop management reports and executive-level performance summaries.
Produce operational, clinical, and financial KPI reporting.
Monitor trends and identify improvement opportunities.
Data Science & Predictive Modelling
Build and evaluate predictive models supporting healthcare operations and clinical decision-making.
Support healthcare forecasting, utilisation modelling, revenue cycle analytics, and patient pathway optimisation.
Apply statistical and machine learning techniques where appropriate.
Data Governance
Support healthcare data quality, integration, and governance initiatives.
Work with healthcare standards including ICD-10, CPT, SNOMED CT, HL7, and FHIR.
Ensure compliance with UAE healthcare data requirements.
Essential requirements
Currently residing within the UAE.
Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Health Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, or related discipline.
Minimum 2 years' experience working with healthcare datasets.
Experience working within:
Hospitals
Clinics
Healthcare groups
Medical centres
Health insurance organisations
Advanced Power BI experience.
Advanced Tableau experience.
Advanced SQL experience.
Experience preparing executive and operational healthcare reports.
Python and/or R experience.
Experience working with:
Clinical data
EHR data
Claims data
Revenue cycle data
Pharmacy data
Patient activity data
Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills.
Highly desirable
Predictive modelling experience.
Machine learning experience.
NABIDH experience.
DHA healthcare data ecosystem knowledge.
Health insurance analytics experience.
Revenue cycle analytics experience.
Healthcare coding systems:
ICD-10/11
CPT
SNOMED CT
HL7/FHIR
About Al-Futtaim Healthcare
We hear your ambition.
For over 90 years, the Al-Futtaim Group has been bringing the world’s leading brands of lifestyle watches, cars, home furnishings and fashion to the UAE. The Group has now introduced a whole new way of holistic healthcare through HealthHub Clinics by Al-Futtaim, its multi-speciality chain of more than 20 clinics in Dubai with over 25 specialties offering the right combination of advanced diagnostics, proven medical expertise and specialised services.
What gives our clinics an edge is that as a part of the Al-Futtaim Group, you can expect world-class quality standards, with access to the best medical services and facilities within a healing environment. It’s a new way of healthcare that’s designed to meet a patient’s needs with a complete range of smart healthcare solutions. As testimony to this, only recently, we’ve earned a rare milestone of being the only primary healthcare network in the UAE to receive the Gold Seal by a reputed international body: Accreditation Canada.
As trusted partners to health, we at HealthHub Clinics adopt evidence-based learning that enables us to listen to our patients more carefully. It helps us in treating the cause and not just the symptoms, while applying global best practices to ensure quality of care for every family member. Most of all, we adopt a patient-centric approach to healthcare that is reflected in the promise of our core belief: “We Hear You.”
About the Company
Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.
The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.
The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.
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