Director, Medical Analytics Insights Lead (Oncology)

Background:

In GSK Medical Affairs, we focus on communicating the science behind our diseases and medicines to help patients, clinicians and healthcare systems make better informed decisions that beneficially impact patients’ lives. Insights have been recognized as a key enabler to help us deeply understand our stakeholders needs and motivations and to focus on scientific engagement that matters to them and is impactful.

Job Purpose:

This role will be a trusted consultant/advisor to Medical Affairs and the business, partnering with one of our key therapeutic areas (Oncology) to generate and uncover findings and insights that will enable better operational and strategic decision-making.

More specifically, the goal is to uncover and embed findings and insights to impact the following key focus areas:

• Input to Innovation – new molecule development, improved clinical trial design, evidence generation focus needs (for publications, etc.)
• Input to Performance – enabling robust external, scientific engagement with HCPs, Health Systems, and the Scientific Community across channels of communication and engagement including but not limited to congresses/conferences, speaker/digital programs, Medical Science Liaisons (MSL) interactions, etc.
• Input to Trust – enabling GSK to rapidly respond to or anticipate needs in the marketplace so we can advocate for the patient and customer needs at every stage of treatment and development

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of the therapeutic areas (TAs) you work in to act as the expert on these TAs within the Medical Analytics team (including in-depth knowledge of products, customer segments, competitive environment, strategies/tactics).
• Execute certain types of analytics, including market research, industry trends (e.g., competitive benchmarking, best practices) and non-modeling secondary analyses. Partner with Medical Analytics Centers of Excellence to help scope and interpret results of their work (e.g., reporting metrics, text analytics/natural language processing, advanced analyses).
• Understand and synthesize multiple findings including real world data (e.g. claims), reporting metrics (e.g. MSL call data), voice of the customer (e.g. advisory boards, market research, social media) to present a holistic, integrated picture to identify opportunities, uncover true customer insights, and influence action;
• Mature findings to insights, facilitating discussions with Medical Analytics team & Medical Affairs/TA teams to identify customer motivations, beliefs and needs (including recommending additional analyses to supplement findings); Collaborate with Global Medical in sharing key findings and insights to shape global medical strategies
• Actively lead the articulation of insights within key strategic forums. Champion standard insights approaches, frameworks, and analytic methods; Demonstrate strong leadership and influence in driving to the customer insight for the best decision making.
• Build and earn trust as an unbiased consultant/advisor and business partner to the TA. Build strong partnerships with Commercial Insights & Analytics team, Global and R&D to ensure insights are shared across the enterprise.
• Lead without authority across the stakeholder matrix. Drive and challenge opportunities for action and inclusion within strategic planning and tactical execution plans.
• Use compelling, impactful storytelling skills to simplify the complex and present recommendations that inspire action.
• Stay up to date on best practices and methods with customer research, market dynamics, insight methods, and external benchmarks/practices to drive best in class insight discovery.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• BA/BS in applied quantitative sciences discipline (Business, Life Sciences, Applied Science, Analytics, Market Research, Healthcare Consulting) with strong business acumen
• MBA, MS, MA, or PhD in applied quantitative sciences discipline (preferred); MD or PharmD with advanced quantitative science degree (ideal)
• 8+ years’ experience (including 3+ years in healthcare) in applying analytics and insights for business decisions (market research, analytics, forecasting, health outcomes research, etc.) OR 5+ years with an advanced degree (including 3+ years in healthcare);
• Experience in Pharmaceuticals/Medical Field
• Experience with true customer insights and how to uncover them, Mastery of relevant analytical concepts and frameworks
• Leadership experience (successful matrix leadership or enterprise leadership) required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Curiosity and the ability to “peel back the layers of the onion”
• Ability to understand and synthesize across multiple types of datasets and findings
• Strong business acumen
• Strong verbal and written communication/ presentation skills - Adept story telling skills with and without the development of clear, concise, communication materials.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and confidently defend informed recommendations
• Ability to lead through change and inspire agility/flexibility amongst team, comfort with ambiguity
• Proven ability to interpret stakeholder needs. Ability to negotiate and prioritize most impactful areas.
• Proficiency in matrix management and leadership effectiveness without authority; Proven ability to work effectively and build relationships across teams.

Location: Philadelphia or Durham office (Philadelphia office preferred but strong Durham candidates will be considered)

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