Director - MAPA Insights Lead

About the Department 

The Finance and Operations dept. brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance and Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

 

The Position

The Director, MAPA Insights Lead is responsible for leading the generation, integration and translation of insights and analytics into growth opportunities that shape decisions and drive organizational action guide the Business units and the Market Access teams on managed markets strategy development and execution. This person is the focal point for Market Access & Public Affairs (MAPA), providing, holistic, insight-driven consultation and evidence-based strategic and tactical guidance to senior levels of MAPA. Additionally, integrating insights and analytics, while partnering with other Enterprise Insights, Data & Analytics functions and translating into business impact.

 

Relationships

Reports to the VP, Enterprise Insights with direct management responsibility for developing, leading and managing the team, while cultivating internal and external relationships that bring value and insights to the organization. Internal relationships include close interactions with MAPA, commercial teams), global insights and analytics teams and global brand teams, and other Finance & Operations functions (Finance/Forecasting/PCOR). External relationships include interactions with professional services, secondary data vendors and consultants.

 

Essential Functions

• Analysis and interpretation:
  • Ensures alignment of initiatives to the company’s overall business objectives and MAPA’s strategic imperatives
• Collaboration & communication:
  • Develop and sustain close working relationships with key stakeholders including MAPA, Commercial, Enterprise Insights Data & Analytics and global insights and analytics, as well as other departments within NNI and global as needed
  • Ensure clear and ongoing communication of research results, key conclusions, and recommendations through formal and informal channels
  • Foster a patient and customer first mindset

• Leadership and development:
  • Support the assessment and development of new processes and techniques to advance market research and analytics capabilities across payor/provider
  • Champion the Triple Bottom Line in Market Research, analytics and internal strategy consulting
  • Lead the development of innovative solutions to unstructured, complex problems; Implement changes that have a significant impact on company (time, people, budget) resources and potentially affect the company’s ability to achieve its goals
  • Pro-actively seek out improvement and innovative opportunities by challenging the status quo, proposing solutions, and driving approved implementation plans
• Leadership and strategic business partnership:
  • Serve as a key advisor to the MAPA Leadership Team to ensure the development of the Market Access strategic plans are based on informed market dynamics
  • Partner with MAPA and PCOR Leadership in the development of the strategic vision across therapy areas as well as depth within pricing and policy insights
  • Lead the partnership with Finance in the development of near term and long-term forecast
  • Ensures NNI and Global alignment on the development of Market Access insight strategy through joint generation of customer and market insights

• Insights and analytics:
  • Oversee the development of holistic and comprehensive market assessments and oversee other ad hoc analyses to proactively address issues in support of business objectives
  • Acts as primary focal point for MAPA insight driven strategic consultation
  • Set direction to enable the development and implementation of the insights an