Associate Director, Companion Diagnostics Metrics (1 of 2)

Job Description Summary

The location for this role is East Hanover, NJ.

There are 2 Associate Director, Companion Diagnostics Metrics positions associated with this job posting.

The roles are as follows:
1- Associate Director, Companion Diagnostics Metrics
2- Associate Director, Companion Diagnostics Metrics

 

Job Description

The Insights and Decision Science (IDS) team is dedicated to enabling improved decision-making at Novartis by leveraging data and advanced analytics capabilities to generate actionable insights that drive business growth. We collaborate closely with the US business, bringing insights and challenging ideas to empower smarter, data-driven decision-making. Reporting into the ED, Personalized and Precision Medicine, this role is crucial in advancing the frontiers of personalized healthcare. 

 

The role of the Associate Director Companion Diagnostics Metrics is at the forefront of utilizing EHR, clinical and diagnostic data from a specific type of diagnostic to track metrics on companion diagnostics availability, offering, and usages.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional team to analyze healthcare data, including clinical trial datasets, transactional claims, and electronic health records. Apply established statistical and analytical techniques to support patient identification, diagnostics utilization, and RWE analytics. 

• Collaborate with providers to identify eligible patients in their existing patient pools. Support the analysis of provider EHR to facilitate patient identification. 

• Utilize data generated by digital health technologies (DHTs) to capture patient-generated data, electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs), and electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOAs). Support efforts in patient identification, diagnostic utilization, and RWE analytics. 

• Monitor and report on metrics related to companion diagnostic availability, offering, and usage. 

• Support the analysis of real-world evidence and clinical & diagnostic data to identify patterns and indicators associated with patient response to treatment regimens, focusing on genetic and biomarker indicators. 

• Contribute to the drafting and reviewing of technical and study reports, manuscripts for publishing in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and abstracts and presentations for international conferences. 

• Communicate complex concepts and interpretations of analysis and findings to various audiences, including internal leadership and stakeholders, health economists, clinicians, and health systems. 

• Share relevant insights on underdiagnosed or undertreated patients with the Patient Finding team to support their initiatives.   

Novartis seeks an individual with extensive experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry, with a strong understanding of personalized and precision medicine approaches. This individual should have a proven track record in applying epidemiological principles to assess target patient populations and inform treatment strategies. A strong analytical background is essential, with the ability to analyze complex datasets and derive actionable insights.  

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in related field is required; Master of Science and/or MBA preferred 

Essential Requirements:

• Minimum 6 years of experience