Associate Director, Vaccines Global Marketing Engagement

Job Description

Our Digital Human Health (DHH) team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of engaging interacting with our customers and patients leveraging digital data and analytics and measuring the impact. The Associate Director of Vaccines Global Marketing Engagement will lead development and delivery of data and analytics generate strategic insights and assist in addressing key business questions from the Vaccines Global Marketing team to inform current and future pipeline Vaccines asset and portfolio strategies.

This role works closely with multiple cross-functional teams including global marketing regional marketing forecasting market research digital solutions clinical outcomes research medical affairs and functions within DHH.

Primary Responsibilities include and may not be limited to:

• Portfolio Analytics:Lead development of commercial data and insights for Global Vaccines portfolio priorities. Conceptualize 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).

• Stakeholder Collaboration:Partner with global marketing teams DHH teams and other cross-functional teams to drive 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.

• Strategy Enablement: Lead Strategic Portfolio Reviews Trimester Business Reviews (QBRs) Prioritization meetings etc. Synthesize & document key trade-off decisions and DHH aspirations for executive audiences via active updates to ongoing inventory of projects/initiatives (Book of Work).

• Analytics Delivery:Proactively manage projects delivery with expertise in data manipulation analysis and visualization using tools such as Excel-VBA PowerBI or similar technologies and capabilities. Leverage a variety of patient modeling techniques including statistical patient-flow and simulations-based techniques for insight generation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree preferably in a science or business-related field

• 5 years of relevant experience in insights & analytics strategic planning advanced analytics market research marketing or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry

• Ability to work on-site at our North Wales (Upper Gwynedd) Pennsylvania or Rahway New Jersey office at least 3 days per week

• Strong communication skills using effective storytelling grounded on data insights

• Comfortable formulating actionable insights and recommendations from commercial analytics into presentations

• Deep understanding of Real-world data assets and commercial healthcare data ecosystem

• Experience conducting secondary data analytics on large datasets using relevant skills

• Relationship-building problem solving and influencing skills with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (e.g. MS PharmD PhD) preferred

• Experience in 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

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Biotechnology Business Data Analytics Business Decisions Business Financial Planning Business Intelligence (BI) Business Reviews Database Design Data-Driven Decision Making Data Engineering Data Modeling Data Science Data Strategies Data Visualization Digital Analytics Epidemiology Financial Management Health Data Analytics Health Informatics Life Science Machine Learning

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