CD&A - Commercial Analytics Associate Director, Obesity

Role Summary

CD&A - Commercial Analytics Associate Director, Obesity leads insights generation by integrating multiple secondary data sources and collaborating with Commercial Data and Analytics colleagues to develop a comprehensive understanding of the obesity market and provide tactical recommendations. The role requires clear communication of findings and recommendations to Senior Leadership. Location is Thousand Oaks, CA with on-site work a minimum of 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Develop positive cross-functional relationships with marketing, finance, the broader CD&A team, and other partners to develop and communicate assumptions based on secondary data analysis and partner input
• Provide senior leadership with an objective and rigorous perspective on secondary data analytics and performance management
• Lead the production and interpretation of data for standard reports (e.g., weekly metric dashboards, monthly tracking)
• Provide analytical support to the cross-functional team supporting general medicine with limited supervision
• Prepare, interpret and present analyses on specific business objectives and ad hoc investigative requests
• Ensure applicable legal and regulatory compliance SOPs are understood and adhered to by yourself, vendors, and product teams
• Partner with external vendors and consultants to enable effective and efficient project completion
• Demonstrate ownership of general medicine data sets, ensuring confidence in data through understanding of data collection methods, business rules and caveats
• Improve the capabilities of the Commercial Insights team by researching and implementing new analytical tools, methodologies, best practices, and new data sources

Qualifications

• Required: Doctorate degree and 3 years of analytics experience
• Required: Master’s degree and 5 years of analytics experience
• Required: Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of analytics experience
• Required: Associate’s degree and 11 years of analytics experience
• Required: High school diploma / GED and 13 years of analytics experience
• Preferred: Ability to onboard data and explore use cases
• Preferred: Adopt AI methodologies and help lead transformation initiatives
• Preferred: Strong ability to uncover and transform insights to commercial actions by analyzing, synthesizing, and integrating various secondary data
• Preferred: SME in data, analytics, research, and/or dashboarding & reporting approach
• Preferred: Experience across different disciplines and therapeutic areas
• Preferred: Ability to identify and define business problems and address them through data, analytics, and research
• Preferred: Strong analysis and project management skills to turn unstructured business issues into actionable recommendations
• Preferred: Experience managing multiple leadership stakeholders and delivering on competing priorities
• Preferred: Ability to drive implementation to enhance methodologies and standard processes
• Preferred: Ability to direct and prioritize team supports and resources to complete priorities in a timely manner
• Preferred: Proficient facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Preferred: Strong oral and written presentation skills with ability to simplify complex concepts verbally or visually
• Preferred: Consistently engage and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to shape brand strategy and understand risks and opportunities

Skills

• Data analysis and interpretation
• Cross-functional collaboration and relationship building
• Strategic thinking and problem solving
• Communication and presentation skills
• Vendor management and project coordination
• Dashboards, reporting, and analytics tools

Education

• Doctorate, Master’s, Bachelor’s, Associate’s, or High School diploma with relevant analytics experience as listed in Basic Qualifications

Additional Requirements

• On-site work requirement: Thousand Oaks, CA; minimum 3 days/week on site
• Travel expectations not specified beyond on-site requirement