Global Analytics & Insights Director - Oncology

Working at Astra Zeneca means being entrepreneurial, thinking big, and working together to make the impossible a reality.
AstraZeneca is a science-led, global biopharmaceutical company with a focused portfolio in core therapies. We are committed to improving the health and lives of people across the globe through our broad research and development platform and growing late-stage pipeline. Operating in more than 100 countries
, AstraZeneca has strength in emerging markets, and its medicines are used by millions of patients and clinicians worldwide.

Role Summary
The Global Analytics & Insights Director – Oncology will join AstraZeneca’s Global Analytics & Insights (GA&I) team and support the Oncology organization, with a focus on the Immuno-Oncology portfolio
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The GA&I team’s mission is to improve the quality of decisions taken across AstraZeneca’s oncology assets by creating and delivering excellent market, customer, and competitor insights
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In this role, you will lead the generation of insights and analytics that shape strategy and inform material business decisions. You will lead cross-functional strategy and insights initiatives, synthesize complex analyses into clear storylines and recommendations, and influence senior leaders and expert stakeholders.
This is an opportunity for a critical thinker who can deliver well-researched, verified, and relevant analyses in a clear and impactful way. Success will require the ability to lead without authority, communicate effectively, influence across functions, and work confidently with incomplete data in a fast-growing organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape strategic business questions:
  Frame key business questions in ambiguous situations and define the most appropriate analytical approach.
• Generate market and customer insights:
  Provide strategy-shaping analysis from a wide range of sources and integrate insights to advise material business decisions.
• Lead market research:
  Identify and plan market research that enables relevant actions to address brand business problems while generating tumor-level knowledge beyond the brand.
• Translate research into action:
  Interpret primary market research using strong business acumen to generate evidence-based, actionable insights.
• Develop competitive intelligence:
  Work closely with AstraZeneca colleagues and external partners to lead competitive analysis for a brand and ensure that implications are reflected in forecasts and embedded in brand team thinking.
• Lead revenue forecasting:
  Forecast revenues in a consistent, transparent, and robust manner to support investment decisions and resource planning.
• Drive forecast alignment:
  Lead cross-functional alignment on forecast development through well-evidenced and credible insights. Own the development, delivery, and team alignment of the product or brand forecast and related assumptions.
• Partner with local markets:
  Lead and negotiate with local markets to validate assumptions and market understanding. Share key knowledge and build collaborative relationships with market insights leads.
• Develop performance measurement:
  Lead performance and KPI development and reporting, including best-practice sharing, to enable a detailed understanding of brand performance and opportunities based on a variety of inputs.
• Communicate recommendations:
  Present analysis and synthesis to brand leaders in a succinct, persuasive, and decision-oriented way to drive team alignment.
• Build therapy-area expertise:
  Possess or develop deep therapy-area knowledge, bridging clinical development through commercialization.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree, ideally in a science- or mathematics-based field.
• Relevant pharmaceutical industry experience gained in-house, within a management or strategy…