Responsibilities

• Leads Advanced Analytics with emerging technology and methodologies to deliver accurate, innovative, and timely insights to support and act as a strategic partner to VEN Brand and Sales Teams.
• Independently execute and lead Advanced Analytic initiatives and projects, supervise supplier teams’ analytics work, ensuring analytical approaches implemented are built according to best practice and with eventual scaling in mind.
• Proactively identify new and innovative analytic approaches that would improve our ability to answer commercial business questions by closely collaborating with key stakeholders to transform business questions and data into analytic solutions.
• Manages ongoing engagements and budgets with external data vendors to ensure AbbVie is getting the appropriate data, services, and support; anticipates, forecasts, and secures appropriate budget funds and support based on current and future business needs.
• Leads negotiations with external data vendors for short-term and long-term data and services engagements across national and sub-national script data, Specialty Pharmacy data, Patient Level Data, promotional data, RWD, and other data categories and sources.
• Leads the analytic team in a manner that ensures that marketing analytics professionals have access to, and use, the most advanced information and analytical techniques and are properly trained and produce results that fully leverage the data and analytics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Medical Affairs, Market Access, BTS, Digital Lab, and HEOR to deliver holistic insights to the brand team.
• Supervisory / Management Responsibility for two Direct Reports.

Requirements

• BS degree required. Advanced degree (e.g. PhD, MS, MBA) preferred demonstrating applied advanced analytics.
• 8+ years of analytics experience. Deep expertise in brand performance measurement and analytics required, with a demonstrated track record of designing and leading measurement strategies for product launches and post-launch optimization.
• 2+ years of experience negotiating with and managing external vendors
• Has a passion for data, analytics, and business strategy projects
• Experience developing and executing analytic solutions to address key business questions with measurable outcomes and insights
• Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, and creativity in problem solving
• Experience influencing cross-functional, global, and affiliate teams
• Strong written/oral communications skills including communicating to all levels of the organization
• Ability to understand the pharma commercial environment and business needs and translate to workable solutions
• Highly motivated change agent that can push against the status quo and seed new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new ways of working

Preferred

• Preferred: experience in pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industries, and familiarity with Pharma data and/or experience in advanced analytics/data sciences leading industries (technology, CPG, banking); Oncology and HEM/ONC experience a plus