Sr. Director, Insights and Analytics - Flu and COVID

Job Title: Sr. Director, Insights and Analytics – Flu and COVID

Location: Bridgewater, NJ (2-3 days on-site per week required)

About the job ​

Are you ready to share the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team as a Sr. Director, Insights and Analytics – Flu and COVID to make a difference in the lives of patients, families, and communities.

We are an innovate global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare disease and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D, to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and progress to make a real impact on the millions of patients around the world.

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Main responsibilities:​ ​

Competencies and expectations associated with this role include but are not limited to the following:

Responsibilities

Together with other CI&A leads, co-develop and implement the CI&A strategy to:

• Implement the GTMC frameworks and processes to maintain / manage service level agreements with our internal and external key partners
• Drive innovation where marketing teams can leverage more actionable insights faster
• Inform both high level strategic tradeoffs and operational execution on key issues
• Ensure insights delivery to brand stakeholders are tailored to each specific audience to empower commercial teams
• Guide the brand planning process via strategically grounding it in insights from the most relevant and timely analytics, and market research

Act as an CI&A expert and cross-functional consultant:

• Represent CI&A, be the primary point of contact, develop strong relationships with business stakeholders, ensuring the business needs are met
• Participate in Leadership meetings at a C-Suite level, providing Insights and Operational expertise to drive strategic decisions.
• Create opportunities for efficiencies in brand performance through process improvements, vendor leverage and data analysis, partnering with the brand to implement solutions and track ROI.
• Drive collaboration across GTMC COEs ensuring to avoid duplication.
• Manage the Quarterly Business Review process for Business Operations activities. Ensure clear, measurable goals are established, understood and executed against by each functional resource supporting the brand.
• Lead global forecasting activities and support individual countries and regions in all forecasting related issues to bring key business insights in a proactive manner to leaders within the commercial organization.
• Lead the S&OP process in terms of monitoring levels of supply compared to forecast estimates.
• Aligning to a common framework and set of guiding principles shared with GTMC.
• Collaborate with colleagues in similar roles, cross-business unit to ensure best practice sharing and effective leverage of support teams.
• Support the design and execution of market research planning initiatives, collaborating with Glocal brand leads to support pre- and post-launch readiness efforts.
• Ensure the effective implementation of all integrated insights activities such as primary research through timely and appropriate coordination with stakeholders and external vendors.
• Manage vendor selection process, oversee multiple vendors together with internal partners, as needed.
• Foster innovative solutions and a design-thinking approach aligned with broader GTMC strategies for Key Assets.
• Assess and implement novel methodologies (AI, ML and Behavioral) frameworks in coordination with GTMC COEs to accelerate meaningful insights to inform brand / development plans in a manner that keeps pace with the speed of our Key Assets.

Effectively lead the CI&A Team:

• Develop people from both a functional skills and leadership perspective, with the goal of growing internal talent
• Lead the CI&A team in providing forecasting, analytics, and market research to address brand, launch and strategic planning
• Provides leadership and direction, establishing a culture and work environment that attracts, retains and motivates a diverse, skilled workforce
• Maximize adoption of innovative methodologies and best-practices via trainings / upskilling workshops
• Lead 3-5