Director – Vaccines Global Commercial Pipeline Analytics
Company | Merck |
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Location | North Wales, PA, USA, Linden, NJ, USA |
Salary | $187000 – $294400 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a science or business-related field
- 7+ years of experience years of relevant experience in insights & analytics, strategic planning, advanced analytics, market research, marketing or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
- 2+ years direct people management experience with responsibility for performance management, talent development and coaching
- Strong communication skills using effective storytelling grounded on data insights
- Comfortable formulating actionable insights and recommendations from commercial analytics into presentations and presenting results to various levels of franchise management
- Strong knowledge of portfolio analytics, financial planning, and industry best practices
- Deep understanding of Real-world data assets and commercial pharma data ecosystem
- Experience conducting secondary data analytics on large datasets using relevant skills
- Proven track record of leadership and effective collaboration
- Strategic thinker with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both internal and external stakeholders
- Relationship-building, problem solving and influencing skills with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally
Responsibilities
- Develop and synthesize commercial data and insights for Global Vaccines portfolio priorities. Conceptualize and build set of analytics capabilities and tools anchored to our marketing and launch frameworks to support decision making for Global Vaccines portfolio and assets (e.g. market and competitor landscape assessment tools, Immunization eligibilities & vaccine hesitancy factors, benchmark libraries)
- Partner with global marketing teams, HHDDA teams, and other cross-functional teams to inform strategic decisions and increase commercial rigor through all phases of pipeline asset development. Serve as the Insights & Analytics quarterback to address key business questions through digital, data and analytics capabilities
- Provide clear and synthesized communication to global marketing leaders and cross-functional teams, on commercial insights addressing priority business questions
- Lead Strategic Portfolio Reviews, Trimester Business Reviews (QBRs), Prioritization meetings, etc. Synthesize & document key trade-off decisions and HHDDA aspirations for executive audiences via active updates to ongoing inventory of projects/initiatives (Book of Work). Support taxonomy implementation & updates
- Lead a high performing Pune GCPA Vaccines team, driving data-driven decision making and delivering actionable insights to support strategic business goals. Proactively manage team workload and ensure optimal resource utilization
- Analytics projects delivery with expertise in data manipulation, analysis, and visualization using tools such as Excel-VBA, PowerBI 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree (e.g. MBA, PharmD, PhD) preferred
- Experience in diverse healthcare datasets, insights, and analytics
- Experience in Life Science or consulting industry
- Deep knowledge and expertise in the Global Life Sciences Analytics space: US and Ex-US datasets, market research, forecasting, advanced analytics, predictive analytics, competitive intelligence, etc.
- Vaccines experience