Associate Director, V&A Analytics

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The Associate Director, V&A Analytics is responsible for leading the Value & Access (V&A) analytics strategy and execution roadmap to support our North American Oncology, Neuroscience and Rare Disease therapeutic areas and business needs. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Insights & Analytics, this role partners closely with V&A, including data strategy & operations, Payer, Trade Distribution, contracting and pricing teams to deliver integrated analytics & drive competitive advantage and data-driven decision-making process.

This role is a critical contributor to the organization, acting as a subject matter expert to set best practice(s) methodology in V&A analytics and lead vendor teams to provide accurate data and reporting to the V&A organization for decision making. The incumbent will lead and improve the way we utilize channel / 3rd party data and deliver contracting/rebate, sales, payer analytics and insights to Ipsen customers.

This role requires a deep understanding of market access data and analytics combined with business acumen and knowledge of the healthcare payer environment.

The ideal candidate must be highly collaborative and customer-oriented with the ability to influence at the strategic level, drive data & analytics capabilities to business priorities, and deliver high quality analytical solutions with agility.

• Provide strategic oversight and guidance to develop and maintain key analytics and reporting capabilities for the Value & Access (V&A) organization
• Lead a proactive and systematic approach to capturing and understanding V&A business needs for standard and ad hoc analytics, reporting and insights generation
• Support V&A teams with analytics in contracting and reimbursement processes
• Lead performance / KPI development, governance, and reporting for V&A to enable a thorough understanding of brand opportunities based on a variety of external data sources.
• Collaborate with V&A teams to investigate and explore ad-hoc data investigations for purposes of uncovering and providing key payer, trade, and contracting insights
• Effectively triangulate data sources and collaborate with V&A stakeholders to develop and pressure test assumptions; able to explain assumptions and rationale to key stakeholders
• Perform post-deal and launch analytics to evaluate the effectiveness of contracting strategies and recommend adjustments to maximize performance
• Drive and lead predictive analytics (either internally or through a vendor) to predict contracted account performance (e.g. market share changes due to new entrants, loss of contracted account, etc.) to ensure timely decisions could be made by relevant teams
• Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership through various communication channels
• Oversee key supplier relationships for execution of V&A analytics initiatives including contract and budget management, performance management and ad-hoc issue resolution

• Deep understanding of patient level claims, specialty pharmacy and distributor data, formulary and pricing data assets to enable market access insights generation
• Understanding of all aspects of Value & Access functions and the integrated roles of each key sub-functions (Payor, Corporate Accounts, Reimbursement, Pricing, GPO, Trade & Distribution, etc.)
• Hands‑on Knowledge of the V&A data, ability to design analytics from scratch to suit business needs
• Familiarity in designing, implementing and using analytical algorithms to support predictive analytics initiatives for V&A function
• Experience in understanding stakeholders needs to create effective dashboards to leverage information and aid decision making
• Strategic and critical thinking with the ability to engage, build and maintain credibility with V&A Leadership and Brand stakeholders
• Ability to lead without reporting authority and to achieve…