Associate Director, Strategy & Realization (HH Digital, Data & Analytics)

Job Description

Company Overview:

Our company is on a mission to use the power of digital and data to help us achieve our collective purpose: to use the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives. By embracing the potential of digital and data, we are transforming into a globally united, digitally enabled and data focused Human Health organization. The HH Digital, Data and Analytics (HHDDA) organization is developing new capabilities to help unlock business opportunities and deliver on our strategic priorities to deliver the best customer experience, enhance marketing and commercial excellence, and ultimately deliver life-changing medicines and vaccines for better outcomes for all.

Competencies:

The preferred candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit, consultative mindset, strong comprehension of healthcare & pharma industries, defining and enabling strategy, pharmaceutical data landscape, commercial analytics capabilities, and technology. This person should have the ability to create structure, break down unstructured problem statements into solvable chunks and articulate what needs to be answered through innovative solutions.

• The candidate will have demonstrated consistently strong management skills, an ability to work independently and extensively with larger cross functional teams.

• The candidate will have a growth mindset and embody a culture of continuous learning.

• Strong communication skills are essential for a candidate to be successful in this role.

Job Summary and assignments:

The successful candidate for the Associate Director, Strategy & Realization will promote HH – US, Global & International leaders in many aspects of strategy development and execution within HHDDA. 

This role is:

Accountable for HHDDA Taxonomy, Demand Management Tool & Project Approval & Review (PAR):

• Acting on behalf of Human Health Operating Committee (HHOC) and HHDDA Leadership Team to successfully rollout the integration of a newly defined taxonomy across Human Health

• Co-Develop and own a new HHDDA demand management tool in effort of increasing transparency and drive consistency across HHDDA, HR, Financial and BU processes.

• Define and convey the product vision to internal team and stakeholders. Ensure alignment between vision and the overall business goals.

• Actively engage and speak with stakeholders to comprehend their needs and expectations. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather feedback, incorporate their input and manage expectations.

• Document the new process, including standard operating procedures, work instructions, and guidelines, to ensure consistency and clarity in its execution.

• Monitoring quality of entries & drive user accountability

• Inform visualization needs to closely align with Taxonomy and synthesize inputs.

• Maintain a taxonomy playbook complete with structured business review templates to facilitate tradeoffs / reprioritization discussions with BU leaders during monthly meetings.

• Partner closely with Operational Excellence team for tracking spend of approved projects and integration of the taxonomy into HHDDA financial forecasting processes.

• Enforce and promote “Run the Business” reviews between HHDDA & Business Unit leads through thoughtful training programs.

• Establish and manage close relationships with partners and stakeholders within HHDDA, Finance, Marketing, Operational Excellence (OpEx) and HR

Strategy Enablement:

• Partner closely with Director, HHDDA Strategy & Realization to maintain and execute strategic planning roadmap; initially driving alignment toward the U.S. market strategy (Global and International Markets to follow) + partner with business stakeholders as needed.

• Collect and integrate data across HHDDA (e.g., demand inventory and business review decks, FTE and non-payroll spend allocation by category, impact metrics for Top Programs & Digital Solutions & Capability Builds (i.e – GAIN, NBX, ClearSight, GenAI)

• Direct strategic rollout and integration of a new taxonomy across core HHDDA & business processes (i.e – Strategic Portfolio Reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), Prioritization meetings, etc)

• Synthesize & document key trade-off decisions and HHDDA aspirations for executive audiences.

• Prepare and socialize materials for semi-annual portfolio review meetings with HHOC through clear “story telling”.

• Partner closely with Executive Director, HHDDA Strategy Realization to facilitate QBR discussions (e.g., USMLT QBR trade-offs)

• Create strategy realizat