Associate Director, Brand Analytics - APEX Oncology

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About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Associate Director, Marketing Analytics, Oncology is a strategic and critical role in the US APEX Oncology organization, responsible for driving advanced analytic initiatives to enable core and emerging capabilities across Data and Analytics, Marketing and Sales Operations, Customer Experiences, Digital Transformation, Executive Reporting, and Forecasting.  This role will lead key marketing analytics across all Venclexta indications, enabling brand teams navigate an increasingly dynamic and challenging business environment. Provides both technical and strategic thought leadership in the areas of analytics, marketing, and data sciences in developing and delivering the analytic strategy and operational support for strategic capabilities and transformational initiatives.  This role will also engage with external data and service providers (including IQVIA, ZS, and others).  This role will lead an analytic team to deliver actionable results to stakeholders across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Leads Advanced Analytics with emerging technology and methodologies to deliver accurate, innovative, and timely insights to support and act as a strategic partner to VEN Brand and Sales Teams.
• Independently execute and lead Advanced Analytic initiatives and projects, supervise supplier teams’ analytics work, ensuring analytical approaches implemented are built according to best practice and with eventual scaling in mind.
• Proactively identify new and innovative analytic approaches that would improve our ability to answer commercial business questions by closely collaborating with key stakeholders to transform business questions and data into analytic solutions.
• Manages ongoing engagements and budgets with external data vendors to ensure AbbVie is getting the appropriate data, services, and support; anticipates, forecasts, and secures appropriate budget funds and support based on current and future business needs.
• Leads negotiations with external data vendors for short-term and long-term data and services engagements across national and sub-national script data, Specialty Pharmacy data, Patient Level Data, promotional data, RWD, and other data categories and sources.
• Leads the analytic team in a manner that ensures that marketing analytics professionals have access to, and use, the most advanced information and analytical techniques and are properly trained and produce results that fully leverage the data and analytics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Medical Affairs, Market Access, BTS, Digital Lab, and HEOR to deliver holistic insights to the brand team.
• Supervisory / Management Responsibility for two Direct Reports. 

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• BS degree required.  Advanced degree (e.g. PhD, MS, MBA) preferred demonstrating applied advanced analytics.
• 8+ years of analytics experience. Deep expertise in brand performance measurement and analytics required, with a demonstrated track record of designing and leading measurement strategies for product launches and post-launch optimization.
• Preferred: experience in pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industries, and familiarity with Pharma data and/or experience in advanced analytics/data sciences leading industries (technology, CPG, banking); Oncology and HEM/ONC experience a plus
• 2+ years of experience negotiating with and managing external vendors

Essential Skills:

• Has a passion for data, analytics, and business strategy projects
• Experience developing and executing analytic solutions to address key business questions with measurable outcomes and insights
• Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, and creativity in problem solving
• Experience influencing cross-functional, global, and affiliate teams
• Strong written/oral communications skills including communicating to all levels of the organization
• Ability to understand the pharma commercial environment and business needs and translate to workable solutions
• Highly motivated change agent that can push against the status quo and seed new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new ways of working
• Proven success in managing and partnering with internal clients and external vendors
• Proven project management skills, including ability to lead in a matrix environment with multiple stakeholders and functions
• Good facilitator – can drive collaborative discussions, gather feedback, and provide follow-up on how to incorporate into solution design/delivery
• Strategic thinker - can see big picture opportunities and translate into actionable plans but can also understand the details.
• Exceptional organizational hygiene and attention to detail in a high-volume environment- is accountable for tracking, prioritizing, and executing against a continuous influx of complex requests, ensuring nothing ‘falls through the cracks’.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),  medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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