Associate Director, Medical Insights Capability Lead

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The Associate Director, Medical Insights Capability Lead is responsible for leading the design, scale-up, and continuous evolution of Medical Insights capabilities across Global Medical Affairs. This role owns enterprise insight processes, standards, frameworks, tools, and enablement to ensure insights are high-quality, decision-ready, and impactful. The role serves as a transformation and product leader, translating Medical Affairs needs into clear requirements, roadmaps, and adoption strategies, while driving change management and continued innovation in how insights are generated and used.

• Define and maintain enterprise medical insight quality standards, including what constitutes a high-value, actionable medical insight.
• Ensure insights are consistently linked to scientific strategy, evidence gaps, and medical objectives.
• Scale standardized Medical Insights processes and ways of working across Global Medical Affairs.
• Design and operationalize standardized frameworks and tools for insight capture, synthesis, management, prioritization, and escalation.
• Establish governance models to ensure insight consistency, traceability, and compliance across sources and systems.
• Lead continuous improvement of insight methodologies, incorporating advanced analytics, AI-enabled approaches, and emerging best practices.
• Serve as product owner for Medical Insights capabilities.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
• Own and maintain a capability roadmap, balancing near-term enhancements with longer-term transformation and innovation.
• Partner with Digital, Analytics, IT, and external vendors to deliver scalable, fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Drive adoption of insight tools and ways of working through structured change management and stakeholder engagement.
• Design and execute a global enablement strategy, including playbooks, training, and role-based guidance.
• Build and sustain a network of insight champions and super-users across regions and therapeutic areas.
• Define and track KPIs for insight quality, timeliness, adoption, and impact.
• Establish feedback loops to demonstrate how insights inform decisions, shape strategy, and influence scientific engagement.
• Regularly communicate insight capability performance and maturity to senior Medical Affairs leadership.
• In partnership with SMEs, identify, pilot, and scale new approaches to Medical Insights, including AI-enabled insight acceleration, automation, and advanced analytics.
• Monitor external best practices and emerging technologies to inform ongoing capability evolution.
• Ensure innovation efforts deliver measurable improvements in insight quality, efficiency, or impact.

• BS/BA degree with 10 years of experience or MS/MA degree with 8 years of experience or PhD/PharmD with 5 years of experience or MD with 2 years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise capability development or transformation.
• Experience owning product requirements,…