Director, Integrated Insights (Hematology Rare Disease)

Summary

The Director, Integrated Insights Hematology Rare Disease is a key member of the US IM DIA team. This position is responsible and accountable for the generation of strategic analytical insights for disease portfolio to the senior management while enabling peers to grow in their analytics acumen and self-service capabilities. This position requires deep analytical expertise, the ability to understand the detail of a rare disease portfolio and their market dynamics and translate them into actionable insights. The Director will partner with a variety of stakeholders (insights/market research, digital, brand marketing, sales leadership, market research, advanced analytics & forecasting, finance) to build business insights and assure the validity and quality of the analyses. This role is responsible to oversee and support the analyses of other analysts covering same disease portfolio. In addition, while working as part of a team of analysts, the director also demonstrates the ability to work independently with a proactive approach to meet business needs and deadlines. Location: This position will be located at East Hanover, NJ and will not have the ability to be located remotely. This position will require 20% travel as defined by the business (domestic and/ or international). Please note that this role would not provide relocation and only local candidates will be considered.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape the vision and lead the integrated Insights and Analytics plan for a business

• Develop a vision, and priorities for the Insights and Analytics team based on needs of the business, Insights and Analytics vision, input from team and collaborators

• Proactively propose analytical solutions to business questions and problems and come up with new data driven ideas that enables better decision-making and improve the business

• Translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations, communicate through regular interaction the team -Develop advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product

• Employ creative methodologies and strategies using internal and external data sources to identify potential patients

• Explore and evaluate new data sources for targeting to drive Insights and innovation and to find opportunities for improvement

• Serve as prime consultant and external spokesperson for the organization on highly significant matters relating to policies, programs, capabilities, and long-range goals and objectives

• Maintain transparency into market research budgets, optimize deployment of resources, identify areas of improvement/efficiency, and impact. Maintain full compliance with internal and external guidelines: stay current on external and internal guidelines.

• Design, develop, and deliver various market research projects for timely, workable and proactive decision making while providing guidance and mentoring to less experienced team member to connect market research

• Develop and execute roadmap for the team to innovate by transforming the way to solve a problem using Market Research and Insight Mining.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required; advanced degree in quantitative subject (e.g. statistics, economics, science or mathematics) is preferred.

• A minimum of 8 years of marketing-related analytic experience

• Working knowledge of machine learning concepts as well as statistical analysis techniques is strongly preferred (Supervised & unsupervised learning, regression & classification, e.g. linear/logistic regression, cluster analysis, significance testing, factor analysis, ANCOVA)

• Deep understanding of pharmaceutical sales, marketing data sets is required. Prior experience in medical claims data sets (IMS, SDI, Symphony, Flatiron) a plus, as is prior marketing research experience.

• Familiarity with marketing analytics or a decision sciences function and experience with advanced quantitative methods is a strong plus (e.g. segmentation, predictive modeling)

• Experience with statistical computing and data manipulation is a plus. (i.e. R, Python, SAS, Excel, VBA, Alteryx, SQL)

Desirable requirements:

• Experience in oncology or rare disease

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $201,600 and $302,400/year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/24 through 12/31/24, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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