Associate Director, GDO Trial Performance Intelligence & Strategy
About The Position
The Associate Director, GDO Trial Performance Intelligence & Strategy, supports the operationalization of insights that strengthen business decision-making, improve trial delivery, help reduce costs, and enhance trial execution quality. Reporting to the Executive Director, GDO Business Operations, this role contributes to shaping and executing GDO’s trial performance intelligence strategy, including prioritized KPI, benchmark, and measurement frameworks that support trial delivery and portfolio decisions. The role leads development and refinement of business intelligence capabilities and reporting approaches, improving data ingestion, integration, interpretation, and usability. It translates complex data into actionable insights and leadership-ready outputs for R&D stakeholders and study teams, and drives the operational use of insights in study planning and execution to improve cost, quality, and speed within the assigned scope. The Associate Director partners with internal and global stakeholders—including GDO, DQS, TAUs, CROs, and other R&D functions—to align on priorities, encourage adoption, and sustain consistent use of performance insights. The role also promotes data quality, stewardship, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent in Life Sciences, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, or a similar quantitative discipline.
- At least 8 years of applicable business intelligence and/or drug development experience.
- Experience in people leadership, managing global teams, and coordinating collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into data requirements.
- Strong strategic thinking, planning, execution, and communication skills, with ability to operate at both operational and strategic levels.
- Global or international experience, including ability to collaborate with colleagues and staff in other locations.
- Operational experience in pharmaceutical drug development with significant direct exposure to clinical development.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree preferred.
- Global experience and experience in drug development strongly preferred.
- Experience working with IT partners and vendors on business solutions desired.
- Healthcare business acumen and a comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry are highly advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Support execution of the trial performance intelligence strategy by contributing to standardized KPIs, benchmarks, and success measures aligned with GDO and R&D priorities.
- Analyze trial performance at portfolio or program level to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and drivers of outcomes, and recommend prioritized actions.
- Lead operational trial intelligence, reporting, and data visualization support for internal initiatives and strategic projects; serve as an escalation point for emergent issues and coordinate cross-functional delivery and continuous improvement initiatives within defined scope.
- Assess business impact and partner with stakeholders to identify tactical and longer-term trial performance needs, requirements, and opportunities.
- Help prioritize trial performance and intelligence initiatives by assessing value, feasibility, and alignment with GDO and R&D strategy.
- Embed trial performance insights into study planning, execution, and reporting to improve cost, quality, and speed outcomes within assigned scope.
- Translate business and scientific questions into insight-driven analyses and outputs aligned with stakeholder needs and decision-making timelines.
- Generate and apply insights from diverse data sources to support study planning, execution, reporting, and operational decision-making across GDO and R&D.
- Partner with global stakeholders and functional leaders, including GDO, DQS, TAUs, CROs, and other R&D functions, to align on insights, drive adoption, and ensure consistent use of performance outputs.
- Promote transparency, accountability, continuous improvement, and data-driven behaviors across teams.
- Partner with data governance teams and business stakeholders to promote data quality, stewardship, and trusted data use.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
