Vice President Data Insights - Healthcare

Assist Rx is a specialty pharmacy hub services company that manages therapy initiation and patient access programs for pharmaceutical manufacturers. The company’s flagship platform, iAssist, integrates at the point of prescribing and connects patients, providers, payors, and manufacturers across complex specialty therapy programs. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe acquired Assist Rx in February 2024, and the company has grown significantly, supporting a broad portfolio of programs across therapeutic areas including oncology, immunology, rare disease, and obesity.

The Director / VP, Insights to Action will serve as the founding senior leader of the ITA function - responsible for both the analytical quality and the organizational build-out of a small, high-impact team. This is a player-coach role: the successful candidate will personally execute analytical work alongside three Data Scientists, maintaining deep individual contribution while also setting standards, developing team members, and managing client relationships.

The role requires an individual who combines quantitative rigor with strong communication skills and fluency in the US specialty pharmacy and pharmaceutical manufacturer ecosystem. The Director / VP will interface regularly with both internal and external stakeholders spanning market access, patient services, and commercial leadership, translating complex analytical findings into clear, actionable narratives.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three Data Scientists; this is a player-coach role - the expectation is sustained personal analytical output alongside team management responsibilities
• Set and maintain analytical standards, review team work product, and allocate capacity across concurrent client engagements
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and capability development as the function scales

• Own end-to-end delivery of program analytics for assigned pharmaceutical manufacturer clients, including quarterly business review (Q ) preparation, ad hoc analyses, and ongoing insight production
• Serve as the primary analytical point of contact for senior client stakeholders; present findings to market access leaders, patient services teams, and executive sponsors
• Partner with the Commercial team on analytical content for renewals, new business proposals, and strategic account planning

• Define and maintain a standardized KPI framework for hub program performance spanning six key pre-defined families
• Lead proactive, hypothesis-driven analysis across patient throughput, stage conversion rates, payor dynamics, HCP-level behavior patterns, adherence trajectories, and financial program utilization
• Translate analytical findings into executive summaries, trend narratives, and operational recommendations formatted for manufacturer client audiences

• Collaborate with data engineering, Master Data Management (MDM), and BI architecture teams to define data requirements and ensure the analytical inputs underlying ITA are reliable, consistently defined, and properly governed
• Guide the progressive migration of validated ad hoc analyses into productized Thought Spot dashboards, contributing to the company’s long-term self-service analytics strategy
• Identify and help resolve upstream data quality and governance issues that affect insight reliability

• Support the commercial positioning of the ITA capability in coordination with Business Development leadership, including input to RFP responses, pricing discussions, and go-to-market materials
• Contribute to defining the ITA product roadmap - the progression from…