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Job Description

Strategic Analytics and Capabilities Lead, US Oncology

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

• Partner with Head I&A to execute above brand strategic initiatives including sales force sizing, placements, portfolio optimization, cross brand projection methodologies, etc.
• Collaborate with Brand insights and analytics leads, Forecasting and Market research leads to identify synergies between brands and support automation of analytics capabilities.
• Manage a repository of analytical and operational deliverables produced by the Insights & Analytics team, ensuring these assets are utilized across brands to minimize redundancy and enhance efficiency
• Play an active role in data strategy, maintain list of data purchases. Coordinate with data vendors and maintain in-house documentation of business rules applied on different data sources like claims data.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Build portfolio-level planning initiatives, ensuring a comprehensive approach to performance measurement and optimization, while also collating the impact stories driven by I&A.
• Analyze portfolio performance metrics to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement, providing actionable insights to senior leadership.
• Review existing operations and reports on a regular basis to evaluate opportunities to rationalize or scale them as per business requirements.
• Collaborate with the DDT team to ensure strong partnership in areas such as data, tools and technologies & liaise to translate I&A requirements for automation
• Partner with Brand analytics, Market research and Forecasting leads on operational needs across brands and strategize ways to build reporting capabilities that scale across brands.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and partners, ensuring high-quality deliverables that align with business objectives and timelines. Keep track of vendor feedback.
• Evaluate and implement best practices in vendor management to optimize project efficiency and effectiveness.
• Track utilization and success metrics for the engagement with vendors to suggest refinements to the working model.

LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance portfolio capabilities and maintain a competitive edge.
• Foster cross-pollination of ideas and best practices across teams to enhance portfolio capabilities and drive innovation.
• Strategic Agility – strategic enterprise thinker who finds innovative ways to develop solutions. Exceptional ability to set an agenda aligned to a function’s future focused objectives, deploy it and deliver results
• Creates Clarity – focuses on the few priorities that matter most. Track record of developing and implementing programs that reduce complexity and measurably improve business performance

CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Business, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field. An advanced degree in a relevant field is preferred.
• Proven experience (typically 7+ years) in portfolio management, brand analytics, or a related field within the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on oncology.
• Strong expertise in data analysis tools and programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R).
• Strong understanding of commercial business and industry standard patient level data sources (Claims, EMR, lab etc.) and other data sources such as sales data, shipment data etc.
• Experience with dat