Director of Analytic Strategy and Innovation

We are looking for a Director of Analytic Strategy and Innovation to lead high-visibility strategic initiatives within a portfolio of complex analytics and AI programs across Global Commercial Analytics (GCA) and the Chief Marketing Office (CMO).

The successful candidate will be a transformation lead, owning one to two strategic initiatives at a time, taking each from business case through planning, delivery, deployment, and adoption.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading strategic initiatives end-to-end, partnering with various teams across Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance
• Shaping the business case, establishing scope, schedule, and accountabilities, managing risks, dependencies, and decisions through delivery
• Acting as a business translator between commercial leaders, analytics and data science teams, and technology and platform partners
• Proactively identifying and resolving risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges
• Leading executive communications for initiatives, including roadmaps, business cases, progress, trade-offs, and recommendations
• Driving the development and implementation of OKRs for initiatives, consistent with GCA and CMO priorities
• Creating and executing change management and adoption plans
• Managing business-critical metrics on workload, delivery, and performance across the ASI portfolio
• Supporting the ASI Lead on group strategy and strategic assessments as needed
• Promoting innovation and challenging the status quo

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 7 years of experience; OR a PhD with 5+ years of experience
• Relevant experience with demonstrated career progression, leading programs or initiatives in commercial analytics, analytics or AI transformation, or related settings
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, with accountability for planning, issue resolution, executive communication, and delivery outcomes
• Experience developing business cases and roadmaps, prioritizing using KPI/OKR methodology, and managing trade-offs across a portfolio of projects
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through significant change in a dynamic, results-driven environment
• Ability to work with business, analytics, data science, and technology teams and translate between them
• Mastery of influencing without authority, with written, verbal, and presentation skills that work across all organizational levels

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience delivering analytics or AI capabilities into a commercial organization, from strategy through implementation and adoption
• Project leader or engagement manager experience in management consulting, ideally serving pharmaceutical or life sciences clients
• Experience working alongside product owners or delivery teams with shared accountability for outcomes
• Experience managing vendor- or partner-delivered programs
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical commercial analytics capabilities such as forecasting, market research, customer analytics, and performance measurement
• Program management or Agile training (PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe) or similar