AD, Advanced Analytics & Modeling

Novartis • East Hanover, NJ

1d • $176,400 - $327,600

About The Position

The Advanced Analytics & Modeling Center of Excellence transforms complex business questions into scalable analytical capabilities, decision-ready insights, and measurable business impact across the US portfolio. The CoE has a deliberately flat structure, with capability Directors supported by Associate Director-level Advanced Analytics Leads and working in partnership with the Hyderabad analytics organization.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Advanced Analytics & Modeling, the Associate Director is a senior individual contributor deployed dynamically across launches, therapeutic areas, and enterprise initiatives. The role supports Promotion Effectiveness, Measurement & Resource Optimization; Key Drivers & Action Planning Analytics; and Predictive Modeling & Precision Health. Each Associate Director has a primary capability area while remaining flexible across other capabilities and developing T-shaped skills.

This is an end-to-end analytical engagement leadership role, not a reactive shared-services or project-management role. The Associate Director is accountable for work from defining the business question through selecting methodology, executing analysis, and recommending decisions. Success is measured by whether business decisions improve, rather than simply by delivery of analyses. The role directs and quality-assures analytical execution by Hyderabad team members but has no direct reports, and contributes to established enterprise analytical standards and reusable approaches without setting them.

The preferred location is the East Hanover, New Jersey site; remote work may be possible subject to restrictions based on legal entity. Relocation is not provided. Remote employees are responsible for home office expenses and travel or lodging for periodic meetings at the East Hanover site. Working-hour and travel expectations will be defined by the hiring manager, and the position's requirements are subject to the manager's discretion.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of progressive experience in Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Decision Science, Commercial Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Econometrics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or Data Science.
• Demonstrated depth in at least one of the following: promotion effectiveness and marketing mix modeling; ROI and response-curve analysis; resource optimization; causal inference and experimentation; driver analysis and performance diagnostics; segmentation and archetyping; or predictive and patient-level modeling.
• Experience leading analytical work from problem framing through executive recommendation.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and translating them into an integrated view of performance or opportunity.
• Experience partnering directly with business stakeholders and presenting analytical findings to senior audiences.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree in a quantitative discipline.
• Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or similarly complex data-rich commercial industry experience.
• Breadth across more than one CoE capability area, including promotion effectiveness and resource optimization, key drivers and action planning, and/or predictive modeling and precision health.
• Experience supporting product launches and in-market brand performance.
• Experience with subnational, account, customer, or patient-level analytics.
• Experience working with offshore or globally distributed analytics teams.
• Experience contributing to reusable analytical capabilities rather than solely project-based analytics.
• Experience operating through a large-scale organizational transformation or operating model redesign.

Responsibilities

• Serve on a bench of five Associate Director-level Advanced Analytics Leads, deployed to priority enterprise, launch, portfolio, and in-market work as directed by the Executive Director and capability Directors.
• Support Promotion Effectiveness, Measurement & Resource Optimization; Key Drivers & Action Planning Analytics; and Predictive Modeling & Precision Health.
• Maintain a primary capability area that provides methodological depth while contributing across other capabilities as priorities and demand change.
• Lead assigned analytical engagements end to end, from problem framing through executive-ready recommendations, under the methodological direction of the relevant capability Director.
• Direct and quality-assure analytical execution by Hyderabad team members on assigned engagements.
• Apply and contribute to enterprise analytical standards and reusable approaches.

Benefits

• Performance-based cash incentive.
• Depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
• Health benefits.
• Life benefits.
• Disability benefits.
• 401(k) with company contribution and match.
• Vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior