Associate Director- Business Insights & SFE Digitalization

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

As the Business Insights & Platform lead will improve commercial excellence by building company-level insights and leverage digitalization & AI capabilities to align with the company’s mid-term strategy and business model evolving.  The role will closely with IBEX & Digital, SFE  BP, GMO, Compliance, HR, and Finance BP,  and review with senior leaders.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Business Insights Generation:

• Generate executive dashboard and conduct deep and company-level insights for senior stakeholders that connect market dynamics, access, performance, patient journeys to TA and portfolio strategy, establish knowledge-based data pool that match to life cycle and product strategy, synthesize leading indicators and causal drivers into risks, and recommendations on decision making.

2. Strategy Aligned Digitalization & AI Solutions:

• Design and transforming digitalization & AI solutions that operationalize the company’s operating model and next 1–3 year business priorities; Ensure the company’s business review logic and decision framework embedded into the AI platform for insights generation automatically

3. Internal & External Data Governance & Reporting:

• Establish data souring strategy and governance for internal data and external sources ensuring standards for master data management, data quality, privacy, and compliance; Generate multi-dimension reporting.

4. Cross-functional Partnership and Change Management

• Co-create plans with Sales/Marketing/Medical/Compliance/HR/Finance BP; lead pilots and scale-up with clear milestones.
• Drive change management, training, and field adoption; capture feedback for continuous improvement.

5. People Leadership

• Build and develop a high-performing SFE team; set goals, coach, and manage performance and succession.
• Success metrics: improvement in productivity and goal attainment; data quality and dashboard adoption; on-time delivery of key initiatives; zero compliance incidents.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Education: Bachelor’s degree or above; preferred in Statistics, Data Science, Medical or related fields.

2. Experience: 8–12 years in SFE/Sales Operations/Commercial Analytics with 3–5 years of team leadership; healthcare/pharma experience and consulting experience preferred.

3. Skills and Knowledge:

• Strong analytics and business insight; ability to translate data into strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Strong strategic thinking and story-telling ability
• Strong cross-functional influence, stakeholder management, and program management; effective communication in complex, ambiguous settings.
• Solid understanding of compliance, risk, and change management in a regulated environment.

4. Leadership: Track record of building teams, setting standards/methodologies, and driving adoption at scale.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.