Director, Global Marketing Engagement, Early Assets, DHH

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Director Global Marketing Engagement Early Assets DHH

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 measuring the impact. The Director Global Marketing Engagement (GME) DHH will be responsible to lead delivery of data and analytics generating strategic integrated insights and proactively influence global brand leads and US new product teams business questions to inform pharma pipeline investments and launch readiness. Furthermore the leader will partner closely with global marketing regional marketing clinical discovery finance IT & enterprise strategy teams to inform executive decision making through analytics support for clinical development and impactful go-to-market strategies.

The leader will establish a set of analytical capabilities anchored to our early commercial marketing framework to influence franchise strategy and proactively connect the dots across DHH cross functional teams. This leader will also be responsible to make concrete recommendations and communicate on-going risk/benefit against standardized commercial metrics. Reporting to the Executive Director of Global Marketing Engagement GME within DHH this role will lead development of analytics capabilities for the pharma pipeline for the early assets across therapeutic areas such as neurosciences metabolic & respiratory diseases.

The successful leader will partner closely across DHH capability functions across the US & Pune India such as market research forecasting payer insights & analytics data strategy data solutions data science and product owners for scaled analytical capabilities and drive vendor partners to develop targeted accelerators. This role will require interfacing and collaborating with multiple teams which may not share the same reporting line. The candidate needs to have demonstrated consistent leadership skills and have led cross functional teams in their prior roles demonstrated the ability to create a strong sense of team culture and embody a culture of continuous learning. Effective communication skills are essential to be successful.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Global Marketing Engagement: Lead development of commercial insights solutions market understanding & dynamics patient funnel validations & triangulation market mapping patient journey physician segmentation & analogue benchmarking to support decision making for the pharma pipeline utilizing deep data driven secondary data analytics for global markets

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Be a thought leader and strategic partner for commercial teams and senior marketing leaders. Engage influence and if needed constructively challenge commercial partners as an equal partner. Establish and manage close relationships with partners and stakeholders within DHH marketing business operations medical finance & IT

• Communication and Transparency: Communicate & collaborate effectively with cross functional teams with competencies in market research forecasting commercial analytics data science customer engagement data strategy population health competitive insights marketing operations medical & clinical backgrounds

• Workload Prioritization and Management: Articulate how the work done till date ties to business priorities identify unmet needs and gaps that needs to be addressed. Develop a plan to address the additional needs and/or gaps to enable brand and commercial strategy by working with the functional leaders across the Digital Human Health (DHH) organization. Understand the full book of work underway and planned to support a disease area or business unit. Work with cross functional teams to articulate the value or impact of each piece of work. Create a process to better articulate the so what and now what and track realized business value. Work with marketing leadership to prioritize the work that needs to be done considering the capacity availability within DHH.

Travel may be required (<15%)

• Communication and Transparency: Communicate & collaborate effectively with cross functional teams with competencies in market research forecasting commercial analytics data science customer engagement data strategy population health competitive insights marketing operations medical & clinical backgrounds.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelors degree preferably in a scientific engineering or business-related field.

• 8 years of experience in marketing clinical development advanced analytics asset portfolio management strategic planning insights syndication or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry

• Strategic thinker who can be consultative and engage as equals.

• Strong communication skills with an ability to break down complex ambiguous business problems to solvable chunks.

• Strong knowledge of financial planning and portfolio analytics with a focus on specialty therapeutic areas

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

• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Experience in working in large multi-national corporations or consulting organizations with geographically distributed teams and matrix reporting lines.

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

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience in healthcare data insights and analytics

• Experience in Life Science or consulting industry

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

• Therapeutic area experience in ophthalmology disease area preferred

• Global experience preferred

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