Associate Director - Commercial Analytics

One of our esteemed clients, a well-established and growing global pharmaceutical research and development company is looking for an Associate director of Commercial Analytics for their New Jersey office. The client is breaking through in neurology and oncology products and services with a strong emphasis on research and development. They have a strong history of development of many innovative medicines and are looking for professionals in technology and Data visualization who want to work in a fast-paced environment and make a difference. If this is your profile, we want to hear from you. This position will fall under the sales organization

Role & Responsibilities

• Accountable for definition and design of high value solutions which align to organization business strategies and overall IT direction.
  
• Accountable for creating and enabling data warehouse/lake system, analytic tools, business intelligence reporting and interfacing between data consumers and data providers
  
• Responsible for technical cooperation between data subscribers and data creators
  
• Lead efforts to extract data such that it can be easily ingested by automated tools; process data into clean, accessible sets; transform raw and disparate data sets into inputs for computational analytics efforts.
  
• Responsible for ensuring data visualizations (dashboards and reports) are developed following best practices and display accurate information based on business requirements
  
• Implement appropriate governance structure to prescribe data handling, protection, and user provisioning controls
  
• Design, deploy, and move data between purpose-based lakes to include raw, harmonized, enriched, curated, analytic, and training lakes
  
• Perform operational activities related to data management and report development such as metadata capture, data quality, data security, data lineage, data inventory, report creation and QC; Integrate data and metadata with enterprise tools.
  
• Define the future state solution architecture for data assets and commercial analytics and reporting solutions by establishing strong business relationships, creating a strategic roadmap for realizing the vision and articulating technology impact to business processes and overall organization.
  
• Ensure that data curation and commercial analytics application architecture decisions are consistent across the full commercial domain, aligned to enterprise architecture.
  
• Make recommendations for the improvement and growth of data ecosystems and analytic systems within sales and analytics domain by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities, performing complex product customization, and developing implementation and verification procedures to ensure successful installation of systems hardware/software.
  
• Direct the deployment, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of data assets and commercial analytics systems, including applications, integrations and infrastructure upgrades in conjunction with business process owners and infrastructure teams.
  
• Accountable for overall quality and delivery of data and reporting services, including technical support services for commercial systems.
  
• Ensure managed service partners are meeting established SLAs.
  
• Manage assets and software components and liaise with infrastructure teams for hardware and equipment asset management, as required.
  

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years’ related work experience
  
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working for a pharmaceutical company preferred
  
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with modern business intelligence platforms with Tableau preferred
  
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience with AWS or other cloud related data warehouse technologies preferred
  
• College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science, information science, management information systems, or business administration preferred
  
• Experience leading and managing teams
  
• Strong business analysis skill and experience, including development of business/IT vision and strategy, requirements definition, process modeling, and operating model design
  
• Strong problem-solving ability through insightful solutions which address complex issues.
  
• Ability to dissect root cause of issues creating the best solution, considering quality, cost, and speed requirements
  
• Experience in managing and delivering projects in collaboration with external partners (managed service organizations, technology vendors, and consulting companies)
  
• Experience utilizing Agile project management methodology
  
• Strong technical knowledge of systems and applications within the applicable functional business area
  
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, ability to network, strong personal integrity, collaborative mindset, and a strong customer focus are necessary
  
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a constantly changing environment
  
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, including taking ownership to ensure timely resolution, a strong sense of urgency, keen attention to detail, and the ability to plan, organize and successfully execute in an environment under time and resource pressures
  
• Strong track record of effective cross-functional team collaboration and execution
  
• Consistent demonstration and embodiment of company core values Collaboration,
  
• Excellence, Innovation, Integrity, Passion, Patient/Stakeholder Centricity
  
• Technology related information…CRM etc.
  
  

No Sponsorships or relocation assistance available for the role

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.”