# Head, Global/US Insights, Analytics and Forecasting

**Company**: Global/US Insights, Analytics & Forecasting, R&I/Neuroscience
**Location**: Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/563877689799886
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f287f0b2-3ea

## Description

We are seeking a seasoned leader to serve as the Global & US Head of Insights, Analytics & Forecasting. In this role, you will shape how AstraZeneca makes high-stakes investment decisions across an evolving portfolio.

With a rare dual remit spanning Global and US, you will integrate inputs from US operations, global functions, and regional/marketing company teams into a unified, authoritative single source of truth. As a trusted partner to senior executives, you will anticipate needs, orchestrate integrated insights, analytics, and forecasting, and turn complexity into clarity that guides therapy-area strategies and enterprise-wide decisions.

Leading from the front, you will build future-ready capabilities, inspire high-performing teams, and drive the commercial transformation that will define AZ's competitive edge over the next decade.

**Accountabilities:**

- Lead Global and US insights, analytics, and forecasting to inform long-, mid-, and near-term plans, early investment choices, lifecycle strategy, and quarterly reviews.

- Translate complex analytics into clear strategic options and trade-offs for senior stakeholders.

- Oversee industry-leading insight programs that combine primary research, secondary data, and competitive intelligence to surface unmet needs and patient-journey drivers.

- Ensure all research meets compliance and ethical standards and generates actionable findings for portfolio and brand decisions.

- Own transparent, patient-based revenue models that guide portfolio and investment decisions and align with clinical and commercial strategies.

- Drive innovation (predictive modeling and automated insight extraction) and embed these capabilities into decision making.

- Integrate Global strategy, US priorities, and Regional market dynamics into a cohesive view; create feedback loops so each informs the other and resolve tensions when they arise.

- Run an agile operating model with clear prioritization and resource allocation; manage budgets and vendor partners, deciding when to build in-house vs. outsource.

- Inspire, develop, and retain a geographically dispersed team; foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.

**Essential Skills/Experience:**

- BSc/BA degree in business or related discipline

- 8+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries including 5+ years in commercial, market access or insights, analytics or forecasting with global and US

- Extensive People management experience

- Experience building and optimizing teams and commercial capabilities

**Desirable Skills/Experience:**

- Advanced degree preferred (e.g., MBA, MPH, PharmD, PhD)

- Proven success leading large, geographically dispersed teams (40+ direct and indirect reports) through transformation and growth

- Experience in therapy areas aligned with AstraZeneca’s Biopharmaceutical division

## Skills

### Required
- BSc/BA degree in business or related discipline
- 8+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries
- Extensive People management experience
- Experience building and optimizing teams and commercial capabilities
- Advanced degree preferred (e.g., MBA, MPH, PharmD, PhD)

### Nice to have
- Proven success leading large, geographically dispersed teams (40+ direct and indirect reports) through transformation and growth
- Experience in therapy areas aligned with AstraZeneca’s Biopharmaceutical division