Senior Director, Insights & Analytics (I&A) - Pulmonology

Role Summary

Senior Director, Insights & Analytics (I&A) - Pulmonology. Lead a high-performing I&A team to generate actionable insights from diverse sources to inform business decisions, partner with senior Pulmonology leadership, and drive talent development within the CSI&A I&A (Immunology) team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the I&A Pulmonology team in providing business analytics, customer insights and competitive intelligence to address all commercialization needs
• Set the strategic I&A direction that aligns with overarching Pulmonology priorities and helps drive launch excellence
• Foster innovative solutions and a design-thinking approach aligned with strategies for the pulmonology business
• Develop people from both a functional skills and leadership perspective, with the goal of growing internal talent
• Assess and implement novel methodologies and frameworks to garner meaningful insights to inform business decisions and enhance brand differentiation and impact
• Lead efforts to identify and crystalize insights that inform strategic plans for Pulmonology
• Collaborate with the Pulmonology CBU and other senior leaders to identify, predict and inform business decisions relating to the competitive outlook for Pulmonology, and any pipeline Immunology (Pulmonology) medicines
• Develop and maintain a mutually beneficial partnership with CBU stakeholders; ensure insight generation and feedback are embraced; balance project rigor, timelines and influence
• Coordinate alignment with Alliance counterparts and stakeholders on all insights and analytics agendas
• Work with other CSI&A leaders to standardize adoption of capabilities such as marketing mix, promotional optimization, data science, market structure analysis, patient/treatment flow modeling, analog modeling and ML/AI methodologies across I&A
• Proactively communicate with the Pulmonology CBUs and provide strategic recommendations and insights as well as anticipated future needs
• Construct and deliver integrated business reviews and I&A summary overviews with leadership from Pulmonology and CSI&A

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree (masters preferred) with 15+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech commercial experience, in roles of increasing accountability; prior experience with market-leading brands required and immunology-specific experience is desired
• Functional expertise in business analytics, HCP consumer/patient insights, primary research methods, analog forecast development and competitive intelligence
• Prior experience managing I&A groups with responsibility for analytics, HCP consumer/patient insights, market access analytics, and competitive intelligence
• Demonstrated knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment, as it relates to commercialization in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry
• Knowledge of data industry standards
• Proven ability to influence, communicate and negotiate with all levels of management across functional and business unit boundaries
• Extensive experience with managing numerous projects concurrently against stringent deadlines
• Prior experience working with I&A projects and initiatives where a balance between project rigor and timeliness was needed
• Ability to think strategy to execution, with hands-on experience in implementing large initiatives with cross-functional stakeholders
• Expertise in data visualization and data storytelling
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to resolve conflict, drive consensus and work across multiple departments
• Strong organizational, project management, influencing and change management skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities concurrently, while meeting stringent deadlines
• Prior experience working in an Alliance partnership preferred

Skills

• Data visualization
• Data storytelling
• Strategic thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Change management
• Project management

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred