Director, Analytics & Insights

Director, Analytics & Insights

Company:
Norstella

Location:

Remote, United States

Date Posted:
Aug 17, 2026

Employment Type:

Full Time

Job : R-2141

Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions provider dedicated to improving

patient access to life-saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full

drug development lifecycle — from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies

to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.

Norstella unites market-leading brands
- Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, Skipta and The Dedham Group

and delivers must-have answers and insights, leveraging AI, for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial

decision-making. We help our clients:

• Accelerate the drug development cycle
• Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
• Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
• Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
• Identify and address barriers to therapies

Norstella serves most pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world, along with regulators like the

FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI-driven workflows, Norstella helps clients

make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella's investments in AI are transforming how data is

consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become

more efficient, innovative, and responsive to patient needs.

This is a player-manager position within the Content Strategy team in Norstella Content Operations, reporting to

the VP, Content Strategy. It combines hands-on strategic ownership with leadership of a small team of technical

RWD specialists (two direct reports) who implement the RWD logic and analytical solutions. The role is UK

based and remote. The Director sets the direction for RWD/RWE transformational programs and projects that

address key business priorities, working in close collaboration with cross-functional business units (Technology,

Product, Data Science, Services), and remains directly hands-on in the strategy, evidence logic and specification

work that underpins them, focusing on:

• Data Optimisation
  - Drive AI-ready, quality RWE
• Data Utilisation
  - Maximise data utility and unlock opportunities to leverage Norstella RWD data
• across the business to drive value, including as the foundation for AI solutions and agentic workflows
• Thought Partnership
  - Spearhead data strategy, acting as the SME bridge between client value and
• Norstella data across both content products and AI-driven solutions
• Defensible RWE - own the logic and standards for how real-world evidence is defined, built and
• defended (cohort definitions, endpoint-based business rules and study design), ensuring outputs are
• clinically sound, withstand scientific and client scrutiny, and are fit to power both content products and
• AI solutions and agents

Serve as an influential RWD/RWE Content SME and thought partner advising

senior leadership across Norstella

• Set the RWD/RWE strategy - direct how real-world evidence is generated, structured and productised
• across all therapeutic areas, in service of the broader content strategy
• Own cross-functional stakeholder relationships and client engagements across Product, Services,
• Technology and Data Science, acting as an ambassador for the value of RWE data with internal and
• external stakeholders and surfacing opportunities for growth and enhancement
• Represent RWD as a function across Product, Data Science, Content and Technology - resolving trade
• offs and providing clear, clinically grounded paths forward
• Own the translation of complex, data-driven RWE concepts into business-digestible value and ROI for
• clients, aligned with enterprise-wide priorities
• Ensure clear lines of communication with product and AI teams developing RWE roadmap items -
• including AI solutions and agents that consume our data - and ensure on-time delivery of data
• Report to executive leadership team on progress, risks and implications of strategic…