Director, Global Commercial Pharma Pipeline Analytics, HHDDA

Job Description

Our Human Health Digital Data and Analytics (HHDDA) team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of engaging, interacting with our customers and patients leveraging digital, data and analytics and measuring the impact. The Director, Global Commercial Pharma Pipeline Analytics, HHDDA will be responsible for developing and delivering data and analytics, generating strategic insights, and proactively addressing global brand lead’s business questions to inform pharma pipeline investments and “beyond” G7 investments. Furthermore, the leader will partner closely with global marketing, regional marketing, clinical and discovery, finance & enterprise strategy teams to inform executive decision making through analytics support for clinical development, business development and alliances/partnerships decisions.

The Director will partner closely with our pipeline forecasting capabilities by leveraging real world, market research and financial data. The person will help establish a set of analytics capabilities anchored to our early commercial marketing framework to shape franchise strategy and proactively “connect the dots” across HHDDA cross functional teams. This leader will also be responsible to make concrete recommendations and communicate on-going risk/benefit against standardized commercial metrics. Reporting to the ED of Global Commercial Pipeline Analytics within HHDDA, this role will guide development of analytics capabilities for the pharma pipeline in the assigned therapeutic areas, which may include infectious diseases, neurosciences, cardiovascular and/or ophthalmology disease areas. In addition, this role will also be responsible for embedding enterprise go to market strategy in early commercial strategy – for “beyond” G7 investments.

The successful director will partner closely across HHDDA capability functions like market research, forecasting, payer insights & analytics and data strategy & solutions.

Primary Tasks:

• Global Commercial pipeline Analytics: Develop commercial insights solutions, business cases and market evaluation to support decision making for the pharma pipeline and business development, utilizing deep data driven analytics.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with global marketing teams, finance, market leaders, enterprise strategy and operations to inform strategic reviews and increase commercial rigor through all phases of pipeline asset development.

• Communication and Transparency: Provide executive team, global marketing teams, and governance committees, transparency, and commercial insights on pipeline portfolio on topics related to market dynamics, competitive insights, patient journeys, access considerations amongst others.

• Analytics and Benchmarking: Lead benchmarking analytics to collect, analyze, and translate insights into recommended business actions to inform pipeline development choices. Provide critical insights to leaders for communication on human health portfolio, early pipeline commercial forecasts and related business drivers.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree, in a scientific, engineering or business-related field

• 7+ years of experience in marketing, clinical development, advanced analytics, asset portfolio management, strategic planning, insights syndication or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry

• 2+ years direct people management experience with responsibility for performance management, talent development and coaching

• Strategic thinker who can be consultative and “engage as equals.”

• Strong communication skills with an ability to break down complex, ambiguous business problems to solvable chunks

• Strong knowledge of financial planning and portfolio analytics with a focus on specialty therapeutic areas

• Deep understanding of real-world data assets and commercial pharma data ecosystem

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Knowledge of working in large multi-national corporations with geographically distributed teams and matrix reporting lines

• Relationship-building and influencing skills with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Healthcare data, insights and analytics

• Life Science or consulting industry

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, PharmD, PhD) preferred

• Therapeutic area knowledge in infectious diseases (HIV) AND/OR neurosciences AND/OR ophthalmology