Associate Director, D&A Strategy

MSD; Rahway (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MSD in Rahway, NJ seeks an Associate Director for Oncology Insights and Engagement - Precision Medicine within the Digital Human Health (DHH) Global Oncology Marketing Engagement team to lead data-driven insights and cross‑functional delivery.

You will partner with US and Global marketing, translate business needs into analytical plans, and quarterback end-to-end capabilities with IT, data science, and market research to inform precision medicine strategy.

Qualifications

• Act as a key contact for US and Global Precision Medicine Marketing teams.
• Translate business needs into structured analytical plans and hypotheses.
• Effectively communicate advanced analytics to stakeholders to inform decisions.
• Quarterback DHH and IT capabilities end‑to‑end with integrated outputs.
• Lead and mentor a team of Specialists, driving data visualization excellence.

Responsibilities

• Partnership with US and Global marketing: establish relationships and be a strategic thought‑partner.
• Strategic insights & analytics for Precision Medicine: generate strategy and apply AI.
• Cross‑functional collaboration and orchestration: ensure integrated delivery across teams.
• Innovation and Capability Acceleration: stay current with analytics trends and AI applications.
• Leadership and Team Development: mentor specialists and foster best practices in analytics.

Job description

Job Description

The Associate Director for Oncology Insights and Engagement - Precision Medicine will reside within the Digital Human Health (DHH) Global Oncology Marketing Engagement team. The team provides strategic thought‑partnership by understanding precision medicine priorities, developing and delivering strategic insights and analytics, and activating digital products / services to inform executive decision making and increase commercial rigor across key stages of asset development, launch planning, and market shaping.

The role will serve as the primary point of contact for US and Global Oncology Marketing team, responsible for developing and communicating data‑driven, actionable insights that enhance that enhance patient and market understanding to inform precision medicine strategy. The role will also be responsible for quarterbacking the end‑to‑end delivery of DHH and IT capabilities, and leading the activation of insights, analytics, and digital products (incl. generative and agentic AI) to support precision medicine priorities.

Critically, the Associate Director will work closely with cross‑functional DHH and IT teams (e.g., market research, forecasting, AI capabilities, data strategy) to proactively orchestrate the planning and delivery of complex analytics assessments, as well as for activation and end‑to‑end delivery of DHH and IT capabilities. The role requires connecting the dots across these capabilities to ensure that insights generation is integrated, scalable, and aligned to business priorities.

The role will also work closely with cross‑functional teams across Enterprise (e.g., clinical and discovery, medical affairs, competitive intelligence) to inform executive decision making and increase commercial rigor through all phases of pipeline asset development.

The individual in this role will be an independent contributor or lead a small global team.

Key Responsibilities

Partnership with US and Global marketing

• Act as a key point of contact for US and Global Precision Medicine Marketing teams, establishing credible relationships and being their strategic thought‑partner on relevant topics.

• Translate business needs and priorities to build structured analytical plans and hypotheses that answer business questions by providing actionable insights

• Effectively communicate advanced analytics to stakeholders to inform business decisions.

Strategic insights & analytics for Precision Medicine

• Develop and own commercial insight generation strategy and roadmap for precision medicine, applying the latest technological advancements such as AI to strengthen efficiency & productivity

• Analyze data across disparate databases/sources (e.g., biomarkers data, testing data, epidemiology data, claims/EMR data and other sources across US and exUS) to develop insights that inform commercial business questions (e.g., understanding patient journey, referral patterns, patient / HCP segmentation and market sizing)

• Ensure analytical rigor, consistency, and transparency of assumptions and methodologies.

• Integrate insights across primary market research and secondary data sources (e.g., biomarkers data, testing data, epi data, claims / EMR data, syndicated reports, ATUs, demand research)

• Develop clear, compelling data stories that translate analytics into business recommendations.

Cross‑functional collaboration and orchestration

• Quarterback DHH and IT capabilities end‑to‑end, ensuring integrated delivery across insights, analytics, and technology functions. Connect the dots across DHH and IT capabilities to deliver cohesive, decision‑ready outputs rather than siloed analyses.

• Collaborate effectively with cross functional teams with competencies in market research, forecasting, data science, data strategy, competitive insights, marketing operations, medical & clinical backgrounds, while ensuring the right capabilities are engaged at the right time.

• Align cross‑functional teams on scope, methodology, timelines, and outputs to ensure high‑quality, integrated insights delivery.

Innovation and Capability Acceleration

• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in analytical methodologies to bring new ideas forward (including application of AI) that will enhance analytic capabilities of the organization.

• Contribute to innovative experiments, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation and/or experimentation, identifying tangible and measurable criteria to make meaningful improvements to the business processes and strategies.

• Identify opportunities to embed next‑generation analytics and digital capabilities into pipeline and launch strategy development.

Leadership and Team Development

• Lead and mentor a team of Specialists and Senior Specialists (on‑shore and off‑shore), providing guidance on best practices in data analytics, modeling and data visualization, through the