James Crosbie Email & Phone Number

Huddersfield, GB

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• As the senior data scientist within the Department of Health's Medicines Directorate, I played a pivotal role in driving transformative initiatives and fostering a collaborative work culture. With a strong focus on.
• Strategic Leadership: Designed and developed the Medicine Directorate’s SQL database, initiating a paradigm shift towards standardized data storage and table linkages that enhanced efficiency of the team and.
• Team Empowerment and Collaboration: Championed the upskilling of the team, enabling automation of key reports using R and PowerBI. Fostered a collaborative culture within the team by promoting open communication.
• Collaboration with External Partners: Cultivated valuable partnerships with external stakeholders to establish and maintain robust data collections. Demonstrated effective collaboration across organizational boundaries.
• Strategic Decision Support: Leveraged my analytical expertise to provide support for critical decisions including market price monitoring for Northern Ireland. Utilized machine learning to develop models for.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Reporting to the Deputy Head of the Operational Research and Evaluation Unit (OREU), I manage a multi-discipline team of analysts in London and Leeds. Responsible for supporting the delivery of the NHS England’s Five.
• Developing and embedding the reporting and monitoring regime for the Vanguard pilots
• Developing counterfactuals for the vanguard pilots through the application of machine learning techniques
• Providing OR, statistical support and expert advice to local health economies
• Developing networks of subject matter experts to support the delivery of the Vanguard pilots
• Providing expert modelling advice to NHS England through the Analytical Modelling Oversight Committee.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Reporting to the OR Head of Profession, I was responsible for managing a multi-disciplined team across two sites with responsibility for joint working with the finance division to providing robust analytical and.
• Developing the costing model to support the Urgent and Emergency Care Review
• Delivery of patient flows simulation tool to support Urgent and Emergency Care winter planning
• Evaluation of the evidence base supporting the publication of NHS England’s Any-Town initiative.
• Development of the evidence base to understand the forward budgetary position of the NHS and its publication through the Call to Action
• Supporting the development NHS England’s Analytical Modelling Oversight Committee through the promoting its protocols, delivering training in line with the Macpherson recommendations and producing its Standard.

• I lead the Primary Medical Care analytical team to provide an integrated evidence base to equip senior decision makers in delivering departmental priorities across £8bn of public expenditure. This is a demanding role.
• Developing, managing and delivering a large programme of analytical work including:o Supporting the GP Contract negotiations between the Department and the British Medical Associationo Option development and appraisal.
• Developing and managing a team of 5 other analysts
• Supporting the analytical profession within the Department of Health and the wider analytical community.

Disability and Carers Services. (May 2005 to Dec 2007)Acting as an internal consultant to the DCS’s business transformation programme I actively led on model development and evaluation of several key structural reforms. Including the successful delivery of the holistic evaluation of the keystone reform – the Customer Case Management system. This required.

Ph.D, Statistics

Activities and Societies: Founding member of the Newcastle University Jui Jitsu club

M.Sc, Operational Research

B.Sc, Statistics