Global Analytics & Insights, Director - Oncology (Lung)
About The Position
This role is within the Global Analytics & Insights (GA&I) team, specifically focused on the Oncology (Lung) portfolio. The GA&I mission is to enhance decision-making for oncology assets through the creation and delivery of market, customer, and competitor analytics. This high-impact position will be instrumental in shaping business strategy for upcoming lung cancer launches. The Director will generate foundational insights, develop long-term forecasts, and build performance trackers to support business ambitions. Collaboration with cross-functional partners, global commercial teams, and local markets is key to translating market understanding, analytics, and competitive dynamics into strategic recommendations, ensuring decisions are informed by an aligned view of opportunity, risk, and action.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in science, mathematics or data-related field
- 5+ yrs experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a closely related field (e.g., life sciences consulting, investment banking).
- Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following: forecasting, primary market research, or advanced analytics.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear, evidence-based recommendations
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under time pressure
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree (e.g, MBA, PhD)
- Familiarity and proficiency with AI-powered analytical tools and platforms
- Learning agility and a demonstrated passion for mastering complex new topics
- Experience in Oncology is strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design, execution, interpretation, and sharing of qualitative and quantitative market research, translating business priorities into clear research questions and actionable outputs.
- Integrate insights across primary research, secondary sources, real-world data, and other available evidence to identify strategic implications and inform brand and disease-area strategy.
- Lead long-term forecasting by integrating insights, performance, analytics, and competitive intelligence to develop robust assumptions and quantify commercial potential for inline and pipeline indications.
- Partner with global commercial teams and local markets to calibrate and align on a shared forecast view, and ensure outputs accurately reflect strategic choices, market dynamics, opportunities, and risks.
- Define what success looks like by co-leading KPI development with commercial teams, ensuring KPIs are informative, measurable, actionable to guide decisions that drive business growth.
- Monitor market dynamics, including AZ and competitor product performance, to identify growth opportunities, potential risks, and implications for evolving brand strategy.
- Partner with data experts to frame the right business questions and determine the most appropriate analytical approaches across complex datasets, including electronic medical records, claims data, and quantitative survey data.
- Understand the strengths, limitations, and trade-offs of different analytical approaches, and translate results into clear implications for commercial and local-market stakeholders to inform strategy and actions.
- Influence cross-functional teams and senior leaders by translating complex insights, analytics, and forecast into clear, compelling recommendations tailored to stakeholder needs.
- Apply strong business acumen to identify priority areas for insight generation and forecasting, proactively shaping the questions, analyses, and assumptions needed to inform brand and disease-area strategy.
- Develop deep subject matter expertise in your disease area and brand, becoming the go-to partner for market understanding, customer insights, and strategic priorities.
Benefits
- qualified retirement programs
- paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves)
- health, dental, and vision coverage
- eligibility for various incentives—an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
