Director - Rapid Analytics Lead - Enterprise Data & Advanced Analytics

About the Department 

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions 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, Rapid Analytics is responsible for advancing the quality and speed of data-derived insights for the enterprise. This role will bridge functional lines across the enterprise, including commercial, market access, CMR, pricing and other functions, and leverage a broad range of data and analytical techniques to deliver timely and integrated insights to answer complex business questions and inform decision-making. 
 
The Director will play a central role in serving as an advisor to the enterprise on strategic, time-sensitive questions as well as on exploratory opportunities to inform key business decisions. As NNI expands the areas of data we strategically leverage and govern, this role will need to lead a team in applying highly analytical problem-solving skills, as well as display leadership to advise all stakeholders on leveraging data & analytics in decision-making. The Director will set the strategy for the design and implementation of the approach to rapid analytics for the enterprise and will need to have strong collaborative skills to assure that the vision for Rapid Analytics, both for reactive questions from the enterprise and proactive exploration of data, remains aligned to the ambition of uncovering richer insights and delivering integrated insights that inform key business decisions. The Director will need to operate in a changing and flexible environment while maintaining strong data and analytics practices.

 

Relationships

This role reports to the VP, Enterprise Data & Advanced Analytics. The role interacts on a regular basis across all levels of leadership within NNI and across all functions, including other Enterprise Insights Data & Analytics teams. Externally, this role interacts with and manages various vendors. The Director will also manage a team on internal employees and contingent resources.

 

Essential Functions

• Analysis and interpretation:
  • Ensures alignment of initiatives to the company’s overall business objectives and brands strategic imperatives
• Collaboration & communication:
  • Develop and sustain close working relationships with key stakeholders across NNI, including Enterprise Insight Leads, 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
• Leadership and development:
  • Assess and develop new processes and techniques to advance market research and analytics capabilities across patient, physician and payor/provider and improve internal efficiencies
  • Champion the Triple Bottom Line in Market Research, analytics and internal strategy consulting
  • Develop innovative solutions to unstructured, complex problems; Make recommendations that have a significant impact on company (time, people, budget) resources and potentially affect the company’s ability to achieve its goals<