Director, Performance Analytics and Insights, Oncology - Precision Medicine

Pfizer • Lake Forest, IL

1d • $162,900 - $271,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Performance Analytics and Insights will direct performance analytics for Pfizer’s Oncology Precision Medicine portfolio and serve as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders across brand, franchise, and commercial leadership. The role translates complex secondary data—including IQVIA, claims, and specialty pharmacy data—into commercial strategy, covering brand demand, market share, patient segments, and subnational performance. It will also help advance the team’s use of AI tools, including Claude, and lead efforts to standardize methodology and reporting practices across the Oncology Performance Analytics & Insights portfolio.

The position operates in a dynamic, fast-paced, highly collaborative environment and requires oncology fluency, proactive thought leadership, and the ability to communicate complex analysis as clear, actionable recommendations. The role collaborates across Global Commercial Analytics and with marketing, integrated insights, commercial excellence, data science, and market access, while directing vendor partners and guiding work in a matrixed environment.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in biopharma, analytics, strategic consulting, business, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Strong analytical and coding skills in SQL, Python, or R for querying, manipulating, and automating analytics on large datasets.
• Strong proficiency in data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI and ability to direct dashboard design.
• Extensive experience designing and managing secondary data analytics, including direct experience with IQVIA, Symphony Health, or specialty pharmacy data.
• Strong reporting and analytical skills, including synthesizing and validating multiple inputs and communicating findings to commercial leadership.
• Ability to connect, integrate, and synthesize analysis into meaningful strategic recommendations, and coach others in doing so.
• Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships and ensuring deliverable quality.
• Ability to establish trusted, credible relationships with senior leadership and influence without authority.
• Ability to prioritize multiple demands, work with ambiguity, and lead complex cross-functional projects in a matrixed environment.
• Ability to identify and prioritize data caveats and uncertainties and explain their relevance to business questions and strategic priorities.
• Demonstrated business and financial acumen.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with cross-functional teams of diverse colleagues.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States by any employer and have permanent U.S. work authorization; U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline.
• Prior experience supporting an oncology brand or franchise in a pharmaceutical commercial analytics or insights role, ideally in a precision medicine market.
• Working knowledge of the relevant oncology treatment landscape and competitive dynamics.
• Experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data environment.
• Experience using Claude or comparable AI tools and interest in innovating with AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic direction of performance reporting for assigned precision medicine brands, including brand sales, TRx/NPS, market share, and attainment versus targets across weekly, monthly, and quarterly cadences; build equivalent reporting ahead of portfolio launches.
• Direct the use of secondary data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and connect data signals to brand strategy decisions.
• Guide analysis across patient segments, including biomarker status, lines of therapy, treatment setting, and prior treatment history, to explain market dynamics, prescribing behavior, and patient flow.
• Oversee subnational analytics, identify geographic variation in brand performance and market dynamics, and proactively surface insights.
• Ensure the integrity of enterprise reporting infrastructure for assigned brands, including the Oncology LT Dashboard, by identifying data anomalies and validating analytical outputs.
• Synthesize insights into persuasive narratives and deliver clear, actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
• Identify emerging trends in disease and treatment landscapes, including treatment sequencing, competitive dynamics, and evolving standards of care, and frame their commercial implications for brand and franchise leadership.
• Align with other Global Commercial Analytics teams to maintain cohesive activity and consistent methodology, metric definitions, and reporting standards across the portfolio.
• Contribute thought leadership to advance team capabilities and share knowledge and expertise with colleagues across Global Commercial Analytics.
• Partner with analytics functions to advance novel data sources and reporting, including real-world data and data science.
• Direct and manage vendor partners, providing analytical direction, quality oversight, and risk management.
• Build trusted relationships with marketing, integrated insights, commercial excellence, data science, and market access stakeholders, and translate complex analytical outputs into business language for VP and C-suite leaders.
• Guide the design of clean, decision-oriented dashboards and use AI tools in analysis while maintaining accountability for output quality.
• Influence and collaborate with peers, set business direction and priorities, and guide vendor work to achieve meaningful outcomes and business impact.
• Lead cross-functional projects and teams in a matrixed environment, managing priorities and ambiguity.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution.
• Paid vacation, holiday, and personal days.
• Paid caregiver, parental, and medical leave.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20% of base salary.
• Eligibility to participate in Pfizer’s share-based long-term incentive program.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
• Comprehensive benefits and programs to support colleagues’ health and life events.

What This Job Offers

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