Associate Director, Regional Insights

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Job Description
 

Associate Director, Regional Insights, Stockley Park (UK)

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director to join the Global Decision Sciences & Insights (GDSI) team to help drive our transformation towards a data-driven decision-making organization. This position will be based in our Stockley Park regional headquarters in Uxbridge (UK), reporting into the head of Regional Insights. 

This role is responsible for partnering with the leadership team for Mid-sized Markets to provide market insights, reporting plus decision support across all therapy areas, leading the Project Algebra workstream to enable data and analytics across the region as well as partnering and collaborating with A&I leads in all markets within the region. Process improvement is another key aspect of the role to enable agility and find efficiencies to empower local affiliates.  

This is a hands-on role that will be done in partnership with many stakeholders including global marketing leads, regional leadership, global affiliates, IT, GDSI, and CommOps. 

The desired candidate would have previous experience of data and analytics as well as reporting, market research and forecasting. 

Summary of Role and Requirements

Main areas of work:

• Business partnership, analysis and decision support to regional leadership

• Sourcing of innovative data solutions to accelerate analytical thought leadership in the region

• Co-ordination and consolidation of regional insights for ACE Mid sized markets

• Lead the Project Algebra workstream from a PMO perspective

• Partnering and collaborating with A&I leads in markets across the region

• Process and tools/platform improvement across the region

Other Key Responsibilities:

• Good experience and understanding of BI/analytics, market research and forecasting for pharmaceuticals in secondary care setting (hospital/specialist) & key data sources eg IQVIA

• Ability to engage, manage and work in partnership with multiple stakeholders, senior leaders, other team members, functions & affiliates, sometimes in an influencing/leading role, sometime in a supporting role.

• Project management, co-ordination, cross-functional leadership & stakeholder management

• Collaborates and communicates effectively with country colleagues, holding routine and ad-hoc meetings and offering support and timely communication as necessary to align and meet mutual business needs

• Articulate standard data ingestion possibilities and make a trade off between standard and custom needs

• Helps support timely and effective flow of data and KPIs throughout the organization with least data latency

• Oversees a set of quality-checks to provide necessary assurance

• Effectively leverages supports from other team members, IT and external vendors as necessary

Essential Competencies

• Independently leads projects/processes and co-ordinates input from cross-functional teams and vendors.

• Provides thought leadership through the proper application of analytical techniques.

• Presents recommendations & findings clearly and concisely to various stakeholders in the organization.

• Applies strategic thinking, problem-solving and enterprise mindset to address challenges & achieve goals.

• Establishes and maintains positive business relationships in the Commercial organization, consistently demonstrating a thorough understanding of internal customers’ business needs, processes, and priorities.

• Advanced MS Excel skills and strong skills using other MS software (Word & PowerPoint, etc.) required. Experience in BI software (eg Tableau) or advanced analytics advantageous.

• Availability to travel internationally as required.

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