Associate Director, Global Analytics and Insights

Associate Director, Global Analytics and Insights

Join our globally renowned Oncology area at ASTRAZENECA, which is leading the rapid business growth of our enterprise and ever-evolving industry. It’s an exciting time to join as we work towards our big ambitions with entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. It’s up to us to find solutions and act fast to make them happen.

Our dedication to Oncology makes this a place to build a career unlike any other, accelerate forward by seizing opportunities, working at the cutting edge, and embracing big challenges, always willing to learn.

What you’ll do:

The Global Analytics & Insight mission is to improve the quality of the decisions taken on our assets and across our Disease Areas through the generation of excellent market, customer and competitor insight and analysis.  This role will focus on our emerging portfolio and will lead a program of insight, analysis and forecast generation in support of a variety of PH3 investment opportunities. 

Currently seeking:  Associate Director Forecasting - Global Oncology Analytics Forecasting, and Insight

The key to excelling in this role is your ability to turn analysis into a clear story and recommendations suitable for use by senior leaders. To develop these, you will be a critical thinker capable of delivering well researched, verified, and relevant analyses in a clear and impactful way. This requires the ability to lead without authority alongside strong analytical and communication skills. You will be comfortable formulating cohesive, strategic arguments which may be used to respectfully challenge a group of experts. 

What You Will Do:

• Provide strategy shaping market and customer analysis.
• Be responsible for developing deep therapy area knowledge bridging from clinical development through to commercialization.
• Lead the integration of insight and analysis from a variety of sources to inform material decisions through delivering robust, opportunity-focused forecasts.  To achieve this, you will consolidate data from a wide range of sources into actionable brand opportunities.
• Be responsible for the development, delivery, and team alignment of the product/brand forecast and related assumptions.
• Ensure interpretation of primary market research is generating actionable insights.
• Work closely with AZ colleagues to lead the generation of competitive analysis for an opportunity, ensuring that implications are reflected in forecasts.
• Support licensing opportunities where relevant.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering, mathematics, or quantitative subject area
• 4 years or more of proven experience in forecasting/epidemiology in Global or US Oncology

Preferred Requirements:

• Advanced Degree in Life Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Quantitative or equivalent subject area
• Experience within a strategic consultancy
• A background in pharmaceutical investment banking analysis.

Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours. Apply today.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace, and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the Gaithersburg, MD campus. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.