Associate Director, Market Engagement - Vaccines & ID (flu)

• →Serve as a key analytics partner to US and global marketing, aligning analyses and insights to brand and portfolio priorities/OKRs.
• →Work directly with business stakeholders to understand key questions, clarify objectives, and translate them into well-defined analytical use cases.

• →Be accountable for ensuring delivery of analyses with high quality standards, timeliness, compliance, and excellent user experience (routinely keep client base updated on progress)

• →Enable prioritization and scoping conversations by understanding business demand, requests, and potential use cases.
• →Analyze diverse data sources (claims, EMR/EHR, CDC, IQVIA, digital/CRM) to generate clear, actionable insights and recommendations for commercial decisions.
• →Propose appropriate analytical approaches and AI/ML/NLP/modeling techniques, demonstrating strong conceptual understanding of methods and trade-offs.
• →Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and other DHH teams (on-shore and off-shore) to deliver best-in-class solutions and ensure business questions are addressed with the right data, methods, and insights.
• →Support the design, development, and refinement of AI/ML and NLP solutions (including Agentic AI) by providing business context, requirements, and feedback.
• →Synthesize findings into concise stories and visualizations, and present insights to support data-driven decisions.
• →Stay current on vaccines market dynamics and advances in analytics, AI, and machine learning, bringing forward new ideas that will enhance analytic capabilities of the organization.

• BS (or equivalent) in Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, Decision Science, Marketing, Engineering, or Public Health is required.
• MBA, MS, or PhD degree preferred.

• 5+ years of analytics or data science experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare; vaccines experience preferred.
• Proven track record applying advanced statistics, AI, machine learning, NLP, and Agentic AI to solve commercial business problems.
• Proficiency in Python, R studio, SAS, SQL etc. or similar tools for data extraction, feature engineering, and model development.
• Strong experience with patient-level and healthcare data (claims, EMR/EHR, registry, CDC, IQVIA and other secondary sources).
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into structured analytical questions and data-driven recommendations.
• Experience supporting products across their lifecycle (development, launch, growth, maturity, and end of life).
• Strong communication and data storytelling skills, including presenting complex findings to senior and non-technical audiences.
• Effective stakeholder management and influence skills within a matrixed, cross-functional environment.
• Solid project and time management capabilities, with experience leading multiple concurrent analytics initiatives and teams.
• Self-directed, adaptable, and curious, with a strong learning and forward-thinking mindset with AI adoption, advanced analytics, and evolving healthcare data.
• Able to “connect the dots”, orchestrate and bring technical partners together across various cross-functional teams from DHH.

• Prior hands-on experience working with healthcare data, especially EMR/EHR, claims data, and various IQVIA data offerings.
• Knowledge and experience of the vaccines business is a plus.
• Knowledge and expertise in the global life sciences analytics space, including ex-US datasets, market research, forecasting support, desk research triangulation, advanced analytics, global market analogs, competitive intelligence, etc.

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• Upper Gwynedd, PA (role will be hybrid and chosen candidate is expected to be in the office at least 3 days/week).

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

For more than a century, our Company has been inventing, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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