Global Analytics & Insights Director

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Introduction to role

Global Analytics & Insights (GA&I) mission is to improve the quality of the decisions taken on our oncology assets through the creation and delivery of excellent market, customer, and competitor analytics. This role is based in our Oncology team and will lead the generation of insight and analytics in our breast cancer portfolio, for ENHERTU. The key to excelling in this role is your ability to turn analysis into a clear story and recommendations for 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. In addition, you need to be resourceful, motivated, decisive, and proactive. You must be able to prioritize in a fast-growing organization and be confident working with incomplete data.

Accountabilities

• Frame key business questions with ambiguity and define the best analytical approach. Provide strategy-shaping market and customer analysis from a wide range of sources and lead the integration of insights and analysis to advise material business decisions.
• Identify and plan market research that enables relevant actions to solve business problems for the brand, as well as generating tumor-level knowledge above brand. Ensure interpretation of primary market research with strong business acumen to generate evidence-based and actionable insights.
• Employ a range of resources and techniques to forecast revenues in a consistent, transparent, and robust manner to support investment decisions and resource planning. Be responsible for the development, delivery, and team alignment of the product/brand forecast and related assumptions.
• Present your analysis and synthesis to brand leaders in a way that is succinct, persuasive, and decision-oriented to drive team alignment.
• Work closely with AZ colleagues and Agency analysts to lead the generation of competitive analysis for a brand, ensuring that the implications are reflected in forecasts and embedded in the brand team’s thinking.
• Lead and negotiate with local markets to validate assumptions and market understanding. Share key knowledge and build a collaborative relationship with market insights leads.
• Possess/develop deep therapy area knowledge bridging from clinical development through to commercialization.
• Lead development and reporting of critical metrics, including sharing standard methodology, to gain a detailed understanding of brand performance and opportunities based on various inputs. Analyze in-market performance to identify growth opportunities for in-line products and inform market shaping strategies for pipeline products at tumor level.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Advanced degree (ideally in a science or maths-based field).
• Relevant experience within a management consulting firm or pharmaceutical industry or investment banking or market research agencies/forecasting agencies.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Qualitative and quantitative market research experience.
• Oncology experience.

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