ED, Advanced Analytics and Modeling

Novartis•East Hanover, NJ

About The Position

The Executive Director, Advanced Analytics & Modeling leads Novartis US Insights & Analytics’ Advanced Analytics & Modeling portfolio, translating priority business decisions into differentiated analytical capabilities, decision-ready evidence, and measurable business and patient impact. The role defines and executes the portfolio’s strategy, capability roadmap, priorities, talent model, and global operating model across Precision Health, Key Drivers & Action Planning Analytics, Integrated Promotion Mix Modeling & Resource Optimization, and emerging AI & Unstructured Intelligence capabilities. The Executive Director leads through senior capability owners, five Associate Director-level Advanced Analytics Leads, and an integrated Hyderabad organization. The role establishes clear capability ownership, flexible portfolio deployment, common quality expectations, and effective partnership with Strategy, Platforms & Technology (SPT), so analytical methods and insights are developed within I&A while reusable, recurring, or workflow-embedded solutions are enabled and scaled through SPT. The ideal location is the East Hanover, New Jersey site; remote work may be possible, subject to legal entity restrictions. The position requires 15% travel. If remote, home office expenses and travel and lodging for periodic meetings at the East Hanover site are the employee’s responsibility. Working hours and travel expectations will be defined by the hiring manager.

Requirements

Minimum 12 years of progressive leadership experience in advanced analytics, data science, decision science, commercial analytics, healthcare analytics, or a related quantitative field.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
Proven success defining and executing advanced analytics strategies, capability roadmaps, maturity agendas, and investment priorities across multiple analytical domains.
Experience leading senior capability owners, flexible expert teams, complex portfolios, and globally distributed analytics organizations.
Demonstrated expertise applying advanced analytics to high-impact commercial, patient, healthcare, launch, or enterprise decisions.
Broad technical fluency across predictive modeling, patient analytics, driver analysis, causal inference, experimentation, promotion-mix modeling, ROI analysis, response curves, optimization, NLP, GenAI, and unstructured analytics.
Experience establishing portfolio prioritization, capacity allocation, analytical quality governance, and reusable capability models.
Strong judgment regarding methodological fit, evidence quality, validation, interpretability, uncertainty, model risk, privacy, and responsible AI.
Proven ability to frame executive-level decisions, translate complex analytics into strategic choices, influence senior business and technology leaders, resolve conflicts, and manage portfolio trade-offs.
Experience leading operating-model transformation, global delivery, organizational change, talent development, succession planning, and the division of analytical and technical ownership across models, products, platforms, ModelOps, and lifecycle management.

Nice To Haves

Master of Science and/or MBA.
Experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries, with demonstrated expertise across product launches, customer and patient analytics, promotional effectiveness, market access, and healthcare delivery decision-making.
Proven experience building and scaling AI-enabled analytics capabilities, including NLP, GenAI, unstructured-data analytics, experimentation, simulation, and optimization, while establishing integrated operating models across global capability centers and partnering effectively with data, analytics, product, platform, and technology organizations.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the integrated Advanced Analytics & Modeling strategy, capability roadmap, maturity agenda, and investment priorities aligned with business and portfolio needs.
Lead and prioritize the portfolio across Precision Health, Key Drivers and Action Planning Analytics, Integrated Promotion Mix Modeling and Resource Optimization, and AI and Unstructured Intelligence.
Establish transparent demand intake, prioritization, service levels, and portfolio governance across brands, launches, therapeutic areas, functions, and enterprise initiatives.
Allocate US and Hyderabad resources to the highest-value business priorities, balancing near-term decision support with long-term capability development and reusable solutions.
Hold capability leaders accountable for differentiated roadmaps, methodological excellence, talent development, reusable assets, and measurable business impact.
Establish standards for analytical rigor, validation, interpretability, reproducibility, documentation, privacy, compliance, peer review, and responsible AI.
Incubate AI and Unstructured Intelligence capabilities, including NLP, GenAI, text analytics, unstructured signal detection, evidence synthesis, and knowledge acceleration.
Partner with senior Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Patient Services, Strategy, Finance, and Forecasting leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable analytical agendas and recommendations.
Partner with SPT to define decision rights and ensure effective transition of scalable models and use cases into governed products, integrated solutions, ModelOps, and enterprise deployment.
Lead the global US–Hyderabad operating model and develop the Associate Director engagement bench through coaching, strategic deployment, capability alignment, succession planning, and end-to-end accountability for decision impact.