Associate Director - Commercial Analytics - Pharma - Japan & European Market

Associate Director - IBU Analytics(Japan,Europe - Commercial Analytics Pharma)

Core Responsibilities:

Strategic growth and thought leadership

- Create a future vision for IBU services entwined with vision of to add more value to IBU.

- Strategize on key opportunities/ whitespaces, drive discussions and expand outcomes from LCCI for data analytics driven business solutions

- Integrate working model for analytics capabilities across BI&A teams, and where possible, across other LCCI teams to drive better cross-team resourcing, cross-pollination of best practices

- Work collaboratively with the Data Sciences team within BI&A to pull through innovations and best practices to LCCI team through affiliates (and directly where needed)

- Network with industry experts and external consultants as needed to develop, test, and implement new approaches and solutions for analytics outcomes

Project Delivery and Management:

- Deliver and implement a standardized framework for communication, project management and execution across affiliates

Build, deliver and own a quality management framework to increase deliverable quality across affiliates with a range of tolerances and maturity in working with offshore centers

- For select large-scale and/or experimental projects, serve as trusted advisor for both LCCI and affiliate teams by enabling the LCCI team to design and deliver analytics, and communicate with stakeholders to present the final outputs and provide recommendations as needed

- Take ownership of key deliverables and drive best outcomes through a data and analytics mindset

- Work closely with stakeholders and actively participate in various phases of the projects (including kick-off, methodology development, execution, insight generation and data visualizations)

- Create a framework for communication, delivery management and execution across NE- Hub to help drive best practises

People Leadership:

- Manage a team of 30+ team members, and drive upskilling plans for LCCI team

- Be a guide/ mentor for team members, and work with functional leadership/ HRBP to upskill team members, help define career path and support career development of the team members

- Develop a pipeline of analytics talent, and contribute to an inclusive community of analytics practitioners

Experience Required :

- 10+ years of relevant work experience with demonstrated experience of working in commercial analytics domain, managing complex projects and cross-functional teams

- 6+ years of people/ project management experience where the incumbent demonstrated leadership skills

- Previous experience with OUS regions is a must (esp. working with business partners located in non-English speaking countries like Japan, China etc.)

- Deep understanding of pharma and healthcare eco-system, data sets etc. is a must

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to be able to structure and solve open ended business problems

Education - Bachelor's or Master's degree in pharma/ engineering/ management