Associate Director, MAI – Pharma

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Associate Director Market Access & Insights - Pharma DHH India Capability Hub

Our Digital Human Health (DHH) organization is redefining how we understand patients providers and markets leveraging digital data analytics and AI to drive more precise faster and impactful decisions across the product lifecycle. As part of this ambition we are entering a phase of heightened complexity and scale in Market Access & Insights (MAI) driven by multiple upcoming launches evolving access and pricing dynamics MFN implications and emerging customer models. This requires MAI to evolve to an integrated AI-enabled insightdriven and transformationenabled capability.

The Associate Director MAI Pharma (India Hub) will serve as the portfolio owner for the India-based Pharma MAI team driving delivery excellence while enabling transformation working closely with senior stakeholders across Market Access Payer Marketing and Contracting. This role integrates primary insights with analytics ensuring cohesive outputs in an increasingly complex access pricing and launch environment. The role acts as a key bridge between global BU leadership and India teams balancing strong delivery with targeted transformation enablement.

The position reports to the Director Market Access & Insights DHH India Hub Delivery and would be based out of Pune or Hyderabad with international and domestic travel as required by business.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the Pharma MAI portfolio from India endtoend integrating pricing/access insights from primary research and secondary analytics
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Pharma MAI leadership enabling faster prioritization clearer tradeoffs and stronger strategic alignment with global stakeholders
• Balance BU integration with continued capabilitylevel rigor ensuring depth across research analytics and access domains is sustained
• Drive portfoliolevel consistency prioritization and delivery quality improving speed clarity and decisionreadiness in a highcomplexity environment
• Allocate protected capacity to enable transformation including AI adoption workflow redesign and scaling of inhouse capabilities
• Enable crossfunctional integration across MAI Forecasting Analytics and other DHH capabilities ensuring holistic insightled outputs for Pharma teams

Required Experience and Skills:

• Required : BA/BS in Business / Marketing / Healthcare
  Preferred : Advanced degree (MBA PharmD PhD)
• 8 years of experience with relevant expertise in market access pricing advanced analytics market research strategic planning marketing or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
• 4 years of people leadership experience with a proven track record of managing dynamic and high performing teams
• Significant experience in leading transformation and change management
• Understanding of payer landscapes pricing & reimbursement dynamics and contract execution workflows
• Experience working with data reporting systems and analytics platforms supporting access contracting or commercial operations
• Deep therapeutic area (TA) knowledge in Oncology Rare Diseases Vaccines and Pharma including strategic implications across launch and pipeline products
• Ability to translate global franchise business needs into digital data and insight-driven solutions
• Understanding of how digital/data and analytics functions collaborate with enterprise stakeholders
• Experience shaping and implementing global engagement models within commercial digital organizations
• Demonstrated success deploying global capabilities and tailoring them for regional or local execution
• Proven track record of leading globally distributed teams to deliver aligned enterprise-wide solutions

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