Sr. Director, Analytics, Reporting & Data

The Sr. Director, Analytics, Reporting & Data is a critical leadership role accountable for overseeing the impactful delivery of commercial analytics, reporting, and data solutions to the US Oncology organization. In this role, you will manage a team responsible for national and subnational analytics, marketing analytics, data strategy, management & governance, and reporting excellence. As a member of the Oncology Business Excellence leadership team, you will collaborate closely with Integrated Insights, Field Enablement, Omnichannel, Commercial Excellence, Data Science & AI, and IT to deliver comprehensive, innovative solutions to support US Oncology commercial strategies and execution.

In this highly consultative role, you will use your strong leadership skills, critical thinking, communication excellence, and technical expertise to be a thought partner to the business. Your seasoned ability to combine your data, reporting, and analytics expertise with your business and clinical savvy will enable you to successfully collaborate with commercial partners and influence strategy and decision-making. You will use your knowledge of advanced analytics approaches to guide a team in deepening our understanding of disease states, treatment landscapes, and patient journeys while serving as an expert resource on the scope, interpretation, and nuances of healthcare data. Your people management skills will enable you to coach team members to enhance their capabilities and support their professional growth.

Accountabilities

- Engage as a thought partner and leader through expertise in secondary data analysis, data strategies, and reporting solutions to address core business priorities to unlock the full commercial value of the oncology portfolio.
- Act as a strategic partner to key customers, advising on the use of analytics and data science to drive business decisions.
- Oversee Commercial Analytics, Reporting and Data Center of Excellence ensuring that standard methodology approaches are always used. Activities include:
  a. Management and design of secondary analytics, reporting and data workstreams, roadmaps and operational plans to enable evidence-driven decision-making
  b. Design of resourcing plans (dollars and people) to meet business needs
  c. Optimize vendor (Outsourced Service Provider) strategies and evolution of GCO partnership to drive efficiency, scale and cost-savings
- Drive innovation and capability builds across analytics, reporting and data platforms to enable the business to scale and accelerate data to insights.
- Lead data strategy, data product development and data governance including strategic partnering and collaboration with business, IT and Data Science and AI teams in developing and driving data management strategies in accordance with their business objectives, anchoring and enforcing data governance policies, and standards as well as overseeing aggregation, integration, and internal publish of all data sources across AZ platform(s) driving data quality, data accessibility, and key business capabilities.
- Lead and partner with the business to drive an increased level of sophistication around the use of data analytics and reporting for improving commercialization strategy and effectiveness.
- Proactively communicate with multi-functional teams to anticipate information and data needs.
- Develop people from both a functional skills and leadership perspective, including coaching, recruiting and retaining talent.

Essential Skills/Experience

- BA/BS degree, with preference for a quantitative field
- 6+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience working for a biopharmaceutical company or other relevant industry (e.g., management consulting, market research)
- Experience applying data in predictive and prescriptive analytics to inform business decisions (Targeting, Referral Mapping, Marketing Mix Modeling, return on investment, etc.)
- Proficiency in secondary data analysis with intimate knowledge of a variety of industry secondary data sources (Claims, EMR) and understanding of distribution channels and product flow for medications
- Direct experience with developing and/or implementing reporting solutions via Business Intelligence visualization tools (PowerBI, MicroStrategy, etc.)
- Ability to manage, prioritize and lead numerous projects simultaneously, including deploying Agile approaches
- Experience leading a large team in a related field, with demonstrated success in coaching and developing others
- Budget management experience
- Demonstrated communication and teamwork skills; ability to gain consensus laterally and vertically and act within a matrix team environment; ability to work in a collaborative and influencing fashion that drives to business action and maintains high levels of respect for and from peers.
- Strong intuition for business and excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work within AstraZeneca's established policies/procedures 
- Ability to travel within the USA and abroad

Desirable Skills/Experience

- Advanced degree in a quantitative field, including Data Science, Statistics, Business Analytics
- Experience working in Oncology
- Broad understanding of Field and Marketing Operations
- Expertise in at least one data analysis language (SQL, R or Python)
- Experience with data applications in advanced analytics and AI/ML
- Experience with data quality management and knowledge of data architecture

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $169,898 to $254,847. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional 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 pay (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. 

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Join AstraZeneca where we are transforming the lives of people living with cancer by leading in patient experience and care. We are working holistically from early diagnosis to survivorship ensuring no patient is left behind. Our belief in delivering earlier stage interventions with curative possibilities drives us to champion the development of precision combinations that can transform lives across the globe.

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Date Posted

29-Jan-2025

Closing Date

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