Business Insights & Analytics, Associate Director

Job Description

The Associate Director, Business Insights & Analytics, US Oncology, HHDDA (Human Health Digital, Data, and Analytics) will be responsible for partnering with commercial teams to ensure business decisions are grounded in data-driven insights. The individual in this role will act as a “First” point of contact for our commercial organization and will lead the broader HHDDA cross-functional team including market research, data strategy, data visualization, data science, and forecasting to help scope, design and deliver well-defined projects with actionable insights to drive greater customer and market understanding. An essential part of the role is clear communication of these data-driven, actionable insights to inform brand strategy for launch as well as in-line indications in a highly competitive environment.

The preferred candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and consultative mindset in addition to well-developed leadership and collaboration skills., Strategic thinking and thorough understanding of healthcare & pharma data are essential as is the ability to frame business decisions in a structured way that leads to solvable business questions, which can be answered through primary market research and/or secondary data driven analytics.  The candidate should be able to anticipate the insights and analytics required by our business partners, then collaborate with market research, data strategy, data science and other Centers of Excellence within HHDDA to identify the appropriate data sources and analytics solutions to inform those commercial decisions. The candidate will have demonstrated consistently strong leadership skills, including the ability to lead a large cross functional team.  The person will be required to have a growth mindset and embody a culture of continuous learning. This role will require interfacing and collaborating with many teams. Strong communication skills are essential for a candidate to be successful in this role.

Individuals who will thrive in this role are motivated by developing a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical business and possess an ability to translate business questions into solvable pieces, drive solutioning, and enable inter-connected problem solving to produce actionable insights.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Lead commercial analytics for US Thoracic tumors focused on lung cancer
• Inform choice of appropriate analytical techniques/methodologies and solutions leveraging understanding of pharmaceutical data landscape
• Proactively monitor business performance leveraging both secondary data and primary market research to identify growth opportunities and risks
• Serve as strategic partner for business leaders to help shape commercial decisions informed by data-driven insights
• Lead a large cross-functional team across HHDDA functions including data science, data strategy, data solutions, market research, and forecasting
• Understand business stakeholders' priorities to help develop data-driven solutions that support business objectives in collaboration with the broader commercial insights team
• Maintain a deep understanding of the therapeutic area, with familiarity of key insights from existing market research, forecasting competitive intelligence, and commercial analytics
• Establish and manage close relationships with partners and stakeholders within HHDDA, marketing, medical, and finance
• Lead agile working teams and PODs comprised of cross-functional stakeholder groups to solve a wide variety of business questions that inform brand and marketing strategy
• Communicate & collaborate effectively with broader ecosystem with competencies in market research, forecasting, customer engagement, data strategy, population health, marketing operations, medical & clinical backgrounds.
• Display comfort in generating insights from both primary market research and secondary data analytics to synthesize actionable insights that answers the ‘so what’ and ‘now what’ and help realize business value
• Work with marketing leadership to prioritize the work that needs to be done considering the capacity availability within HHDDA
• Articulate how the work done till date ties to business priorities, identify unmet needs and gaps that need to be addressed, and develop a plan to address the additional needs and/or gaps to enable brand and commercial strategy by working with the functional leaders across Human Health Digital, Data and Analytics organization
• Understand the full book of work across HHDDA that is underway and planned in support of a brand, tumor, indication or business unit. Work with cross functional teams to articulate the value or impact of each piece of work
• Travel may be required (<10%).

Education Minimum Requiremen