Associate Director, Market Access Data Specialist

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Leverage Market Access data expertise to understand strategic business priorities and develop overarching data strategies to address key business questions.
• Manage analytics and reporting to provide competitive advantage and drive Market Access profitability and access optimization.
• Assess the current landscape of data practices and build a comprehensive data strategy that defines analytics requirements and end-user reporting.
• Enable a data-driven culture with ease of access and usage; establish governance and implement best practices in data management to uphold data integrity.
• Facilitate data-driven decision making by ensuring data sources are aligned to business needs, key questions, and are readily available for analysis and reporting.
• Manage individuals and matrixed teams focused on data ingestion, data quality, data transformation, standardization, data models, analytical layers, and visualizations.
• Create, standardize, and maintain thorough business rule documentation from both technical and business perspectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Brand Insights, Forecasting, Finance, and Brand teams to understand requirements and support business growth.
• Synthesize data from multiple sources to drive Market Access insights.
• Ensure the quality and stability of data for key business KPIs.
• Develop processes and SLAs with third-party data vendors for timely and accurate data delivery.
• Champion and educate on appropriate data sources and usage to meet business objectives and compliance.
• Execute routine analytics, ad-hoc reporting, and visualizations.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree.
• Significant US Healthcare/Pharma experience with extensive knowledge in pharma Market Access data and analytics capabilities.
• Understanding of logistics & distribution processes and Specialty Pharmacy data.
• Hands-on experience with commercial pharma data such as SP/SD/Sales data, syndicated claims, access data (e.g., DRG, MMIT), patient service data (e.g., Relay Health, BlinkRx, CoverMyMeds, Connective Rx), and formulary data.
• Experience in Master Data Management, including customer, product master, affiliations, and hierarchy.
• Ability to interpret data and translate technical concepts into impactful insights and recommendations.
• Expertise in designing, building, and managing data quality frameworks for commercial data assets.
• Understanding of the commercial data landscape and experience working with data suppliers.
• Technical skills including cloud-based technology, Snowflake, SQL, and visualization tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Tellius).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for influencing and stakeholder management.

Nice to Have

• 7+ years of US Healthcare/Pharma experience with extensive knowledge in pharma Market Access data and analytics capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs.
• Relocation assistance for candidates willing to relocate to Whippany, NJ.