Merck · 22 hours ago
Associate Director, Business Insights and Analytics - Respiratory
USA - Pennsylvania - North Wales (Upper Gwynedd)
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$157K/yr - $247K/yr
5+ years expMerck is a leading pharmaceutical company seeking an Associate Director for its Business Insights and Analytics team focusing on Respiratory. This role will lead the business performance sub-team, collaborating with cross-functional teams to provide actionable insights that drive marketing strategies and enhance customer engagement.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
No H1B
Responsibilities
Leadership and Mentorship: Lead a team of business analysts, providing guidance on best practices in data analytics, data visualization and storytelling with data
Business Translation: Translate complex business needs and priorities into analytical plans, providing actionable insights and effectively communicating advanced analytics to inform business decisions
Collaboration: Work closely with HHDDA colleagues (i.e., data visualization, data solutions) and Marketing stakeholders to deliver best-in-class solutions and data-driven insights
Project Management: Manage analytics and digital solutions projects to deliver actionable and meaningful insights to marketing stakeholders in a timely manner
Staying Abreast with Industry Trends: Stay current with industry trends and advancements in analytical methodologies to enhance organizational analytic capabilities
Innovation and Experimentation with Agile Mindset in Mind: Contribute to innovative experimentations, focusing on idea generation, incubation, and using tangible, measurable criteria to make incremental meaningful improvements to the business processes and strategies using data
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in relevant field (Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, Decision Science, Marketing, Engineering, Public Health, etc.)
5+ years of relevant experience delivering complex analytical projects in the pharmaceutical/biotech/healthcare industry
Prior hands-on experience working with healthcare business performance data
Understanding of the pharmaceutical commercial analytics and business acumen Expertise: Deep understanding of the unique opportunities and challenges with ability to use analytics to solve business problems
Communication and Storytelling: Derive actionable business insights from secondary-data sources and communicate them effectively to business stakeholders
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Identify and understand problems and opportunities, analyze quantitative and qualitative information, establish decision criteria, generate and evaluate alternatives, and make timely decisions
Emotional Intelligence: Build trust, encourage two-way communication, and strengthen relationships. Able to navigate relationships with stakeholders while achieving business results
Networking and Partnerships: Build and leverage relationships within and across stakeholder groups and within HHDDA to achieve results
Complex Data Management: Substantial experience in interpreting complex datasets, particularly patient claims data
Business Analysis
Business Data Analytics
Business Processes
Business Process Modeling
Business Translations
Commercial Analytics
Critical Thinking
Customer Experience Improvement
Customer Service Improvement
Data Insights
Data Science
Demand Management
Healthcare Business
Innovation
Leadership
Marketing Data Analytics
Project Management
Requirements Management
Sourcing and Procurement
Stakeholder Communications
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Strategic Planning
Preferred
MBA, MS, or PhD
Prior experience managing and mentoring direct reports
Delivers statistical and mathematical models through effective technical skills
Develops efficient programming code and software assets that provide advanced analytical functionality
Creates analytical products (product parts) as a part of broader teams
Understands the business context, challenge, limitation, constraints and goals to effectively match the capability of the statistical and mathematical and M/L approaches to the business, scientific and operational challenge
Ensures advanced analytics support to decision making and business process tasks is understood, adopted and embedded as a part of regular business activities
Promotes a collaborative and high performing data driven culture across the company and high quality delivery standards among fellow data scientists
Includes specializations within domains, such as therapeutic area and data assets (e.g., claims, EMR)
Sometimes specific roles include incremental skills pertaining to AI and M/L methods, Marketing Effectiveness Measurement, or test vs control and design of experiments
Analyze data using advanced analytical/statistical techniques from various databases/sources (claims data/EMR data and other sources) to optimize and improve therapy area commercial business strategies
Ensure delivery of high-quality, timely, compliant analyses with excellent user experience (keep clients updated on progress)
Communicate with other platforms/competencies to understand new trends/methodologies being implemented or considered within the company ecosystem and bring forward new ideas to enhance analytic capabilities
Contribute to innovative experiments, including idea generation, incubation, and experimentation, by identifying tangible and measurable criteria
Effectively communicate with and influence stakeholders positively
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
Retirement benefits, including 401(k)
Paid holidays
Vacation
Compassionate and sick days
Company
Merck
Merck is a biopharmaceutical company that offers medicines and vaccines for various diseases.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.59MKey Investors
Private Capital AdvisorsGavi, the Vaccine Alliance
2018-11-25Post Ipo Equity· $0.59M
2016-01-21Series Unknown· $5M
1980-12-19IPO
Leadership Team
Betty Larson
Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Dean Li
Executive Vice President and President, Merck Research Laboratories
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