Director Global Decision Sciences and Insights

Responsibilies:

• Excellent employment opportunity for a Director Global Decision Sciences and Insight in the Foster City CA area.
• Hybrid at FC 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
• The following duties/functions are representative of the key duties and will be primary focused on Breast Cancer and could include potential pipeline indications; all activities will require strong partnership and engagement with GDSI/GSM leadership.
• Partner with Senior Director and Executive Director Integrated Insights and Global Strategic Marketing (GSM) leadership to define global market research priorities to proactively inform upcoming business decisions
• Lead qualitative and quantitative primary research across physician patient and payer groups
• Analyze synthesize and guide the organization based on market insights
• Analyze secondary data sources (e.g. script data epidemiology data) to produce summaries and insights/implications and evaluate potential new sources
• Examples of work can include but are not limited to opportunity assessments treatment flow mapping segmentation product attribute/benefit testing positioning/messaging patient journey mapping HCP journey mapping etc.
• Forecasting/Analytics
• Develop longterm forecast models for key products/indications including forecasts of epidemiology competitive market product share price and revenue
• Collaborate with Regional and Local Analytics & Insight teams as well as Literature Resources Competitive Intelligence R&D Pricing and Market Access and Marketing/Sales leads to identify and include quality data assumptions into forecasting models
• Carry out deterministic basecase and scenario modeling and Monte Carlo simulation to support decisionmaking
• Examples of decisions that may be informed by analytics include scenario planning for various competitive outcomes impacts of growth strategy impact of copositioning of various oncology products etc.

Experience:

• Bachelors Degree and Twelve Years Experience or Masters Degree and Ten Years Experience or
  PhD and Eight Years Experience
• Preferred Qualifications: Bachelors Degree and 12 years of relevant experience in biotechnology pharmaceuticals or consulting with a focus on one or more areas of market research forecasting analytics decision analytics commercial strategy or marketing or Masters Degree and 10 years of relevant experience.
• Business leadership experience and a track record of influencing without authority (specifically senior crossfunctional partners) in successful conflict resolution and driving consensus
• Strong leadership acumen demonstrated through relationships with stakeholders peers and teams
• Experience in successfully presenting to senior leadership audiences including simplifying complex materials and managing audiences with differing viewpoints to gain alignment
• Experience working in a matrixed organization and successfully partnering with peers and stakeholders
• Ability to meaningfully portray and effectively communicate complex quantitative data in an easytounderstand format is required.
• Proven experience with global Sales and Marketing organizations and experience with pharmaceutical data sources e.g. IQVIA/IMS SHA and chart audits are required
• Experience in conducting commercial analytics and proactively identifying analyses to address key business questions
• Experience in conducting qualitative/quantitative market research and patientbased market/revenue modeling
• Strong task and projectmanagement skills: planning prioritization objective setting and execution
• History of navigating multiple projects with tight deadlines and evolving priorities
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Passionate about the function and a natural curiosity to solve complex problems
• Ability to effectively leverage Microsoft Office (specifically PowerPoint and Excel) to present quantitative data in graphical form is required
• Experience in biopharmaceuticalfocused marketing commercial strategy or consulting is desirable.
• Experience specific to the Oncology therapeutic area highly preferred.
• Experience in patientbased market/revenue modeling highly preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to lead resolve conflict and drive consensus among individuals from a variety of disciplines.
• Ability to represent the GDSI function on crossfunctional teams including accountability for GDSI contributions and provision of information and recommendations.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to efficiently and productively communicate results of market research and forecasting/analytics to a range of internal stakeholders including senior leadership.
• Strong command of a variety of analytical and quantitative/qualitative market research techniques Experience utilizing rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Utilizes creativity and ingenuity to develop solutions to complex problems formulates strategies and approaches that may fall outside historical norms.
• Sought out as an analytical expert and more importantly as a strategic adviser.
• Grasps key issues quickly understands the big picture and links market insights to larger issues.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines in an environment of competing and changing priorities.
• Must have strong task management skills to include planning prioritization objective setting and meeting management and plan execution. Indepth ability to use Microsoft Office and other planning software required.
• The ability to deal with ambiguity and act without having the total picture can effectively pose questions to tease out information required for decisionmaking. Can handle risk and uncertainty.
• Strong commitment to quality. Consistent and thorough reviews work for accuracy before sharing with a wider audience.
• Delivers final products that are well vetted and reliable.
• Passionate about the function and a natural curiosity to solve complex problems.