Associate Specialist - Global Commercial Pharma Pipeline Analytics

Associate Specialist will also be responsible to support concrete recommendations and communicate on-going risk/benefit against standardized commercial metrics. Reporting to the Associate Director of Pharma Global Commercial Pipeline Analytics within HHDDA, this role will lead development of analytics capabilities for the pharma pipeline in the assigned therapeutic areas, which may include infectious diseases/HIV, immunology, cardiovascular and/or ophthalmology disease areas. In addition, this role will also be responsible for embedding enterprise go to market strategy in early commercial strategy - for beyond G7 investments.

The successful candidate will partner closely across HHDDA capability functions like market research, forecasting, payer insights & analytics and data strategy & solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Global Commercial pipeline Analytics:

  Develop commercial insights solutions, business cases and market evaluation to support decision making for the pharma pipeline and business development, utilizing deep data driven analytics.

• Stakeholder Collaboration:

  Partner with global marketing teams, operations and clinical to inform strategic reviews and increase commercial rigor through all phases of pipeline asset development.

• Communication and Transparency:

  Provide global marketing teams, and governance committees, transparency, and commercial insights on pipeline portfolio on topics related to market dynamics, competitive insights, patient journeys, access considerations amongst others.

• Analytics and Benchmarking:

  Lead benchmarking analytics to collect, analyze, and translate insights into recommended business actions to inform pipeline development choices. Provide critical insights to leaders for communication on human health portfolio, early pipeline commercial forecasts and related business drivers.

• Analytics Delivery:

  Hands on analytics project delivery with expertise in data manipulation, analysis, and visualization using tools such as Excel-VBA, SQL, R, Python, PowerBI, ThoughtSpot or similar technologies and capabilities. Ability to leverage a variety of patient modeling techniques including statistical, patient-flow, and simulations-based techniques for insight generation.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelors degree, preferably in a scientific, engineering, or business-related field.
• 3+ years of overall experience and 2+ years of relevant experience in marketing, clinical development, commercial/advanced analytics, asset portfolio management, strategic planning, insights syndication or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
• Strong problem-solving abilities, to find and execute solutions to complex or ambiguous business problems.
• Experience conducting secondary data analytics on large datasets using relevant skills e.g., excel VBA, Python, SQL
• Deep understanding and hands on exposure in pharma commercial data ecosystem e.g., Epidemiology datasets, biomarker data, commercialization and real-world datasets
• Experience in envisioning, architecting and developing data driven tools/dashboards using visualization tools (e.g. PowerBI)
• Exposure in building patient analytics and patient journey from commercial and real-world datasets (like e-LAAD, Symphony, Optum, MarketScan etc.)
• Strategic thinker who can be consultative and engage as equals.
• Strong communication skills using effective story-telling grounded on data insights.
• Ability to execute solution approaches complex and ambiguous business problems.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Relationship-building and influencing skills with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience in healthcare data, insights, and analytics
• Experience in Life Science or consulting industry
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, PharmD, PhD) preferred.
• Therapeutic area experience in infectious diseases/HIV, immunology, cardio-metabolic and/or ophthalmology diseases preferred.
• Global experience preferred.