Job Description
Senior Specialist Global Commercial Pharma Pipeline Analytics HHDDA
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 Senior Specialist Global Commercial Pharma Pipeline Analytics HHDDA will be responsible for developing and delivering data and analytics generating strategic insights and addressing global brand lead’s business questions to inform pharma pipeline investments and “beyond” G7 investments. Furthermore the team member 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 team member will partner closely with our pipeline forecasting capabilities by leveraging real world market research and financial data. The team member 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. The Sr. Specialist will also be responsible to support concrete recommendations and communicate ongoing risk/benefit against standardized commercial metrics. Reporting to the Associate Director of Pharma Global Commercial Pipeline Analytics within HHDDA this role will lead development of analytics capabilities for the pharma pipeline in the assigned therapeutic areas which may include infectious diseases/HIV immunology 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 candidate will partner closely across HHDDA capability functions like market research forecasting payer insights & analytics and data strategy & solutions.
Primary Responsibilities
- 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 operations and clinical to inform strategic reviews and increase commercial rigor through all phases of pipeline asset development.
- Communication and Transparency Provide 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.
- Analytics Delivery Hands on analytics project delivery with expertise in data manipulation analysis and visualization using tools such as ExcelVBA SQL R Python PowerBI ThoughtSpot or similar technologies and capabilities. Ability to leverage a variety of patient modeling techniques including statistical patientflow and simulationsbased techniques for insight generation.
Required Experience And Skills
- Bachelor's degree preferably in a scientific engineering or businessrelated field.
- 8 years of overall experience and 4 years of relevant experience in marketing clinical development commercial/advanced analytics asset portfolio management strategic planning insights syndication or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
- Strong problemsolving abilities to find and execute solutions to complex or ambiguous business problems.
- Experience conducting secondary data analytics on large datasets using relevant skills e.g. excel VBA Python SQL
- Deep understanding and hands on expertise in pharma commercial data ecosystem e.g. Epidemiology datasets biomarker data commercialization and realworld datasets
- Experience in envisioning architecting and developing data driven tools/dashboards using visualization tools (e.g. PowerBI)
- Hands on expertise in building patient analytics and patient journey from commercial and realworld datasets (like eLAAD Symphony Optum MarketScan etc.)
- Strategic thinker who can be consultative and “engage as equals.”
- Strong communication skills using effective storytelling grounded on data insights.
- Ability to execute solution approaches complex and ambiguous business problems.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Relationshipbuilding and influencing skills with an ability to collaborate crossfunctionally.
Preferred Experience And Skills
Experience in healthcare data insights and analytics
- Experience in Life Science or consulting industry
- Advanced degree (e.g. MBA PharmD PhD) preferred.
- Therapeutic area experience in infectious diseases/HIV immunology cardiometabolic and/or ophthalmology/rare diseases preferred.
- Global experience preferred.
Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales marketing market access digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse talented and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
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Employee Status
Regular
Relocation
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Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid
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Required Skills
Business Intelligence (BI) Database Design Data Engineering Data Modeling Data Science Data Visualization Machine Learning Software Development Stakeholder Relationship Management Waterfall Model
Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
05/3/2025
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Requisition ID R336924