Associate Director, Oncology Data Strategy and Innovation

Merck; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Competitive benefits

Salary commensurate with experience

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. is seeking an Associate Director – Data Strategy, Oncology to drive data strategy within the Digital Human Health (DHH) DSPI team in Rahway, NJ.

You will partner with commercial stakeholders to shape data assets across HCP, payer, and patient domains and lead cross-functional collaborations to enable oncology data solutions. The role focuses on understanding the oncology data landscape, identifying gaps, and executing plans to acquire or partner for assets, including 1st/3rd

Qualifications

• Strong business acumen with a keen ability to understand how data (HCP, consumer, payer, patient, account, engagement, etc.) can be leveraged to inform critical commercial decisions and actions.
• Proven ability to analyze and assess the commercial value of data assets.
• Strong business acumen necessary to understand business stakeholders (marketing, sales, account management, operations, etc.) needs.
• Proven potential to effectively collaborate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Intellectual curiosity and ability to identify innovative approaches to addressing data needs.
• Excellent presentation, analytics and communication skills, both written and oral, are required to synthesize key issues and communicate/persuade constituencies towards specific actions and initiatives.
• Ability to attain “trusted advisor” status with key stakeholders and business clients.
• Ability to operate in dynamic, transforming environment.

Responsibilities

• Actively maintains an understanding of the HH commercial data landscape, including assigned 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data assets, spanning HCP, consumer, payer, patient, account, etc.
• Thorough understanding of the Oncology market and understanding of the data being leveraged across various channels and third party data.
• Able to partner to enable proactive data strategy and standardizations to power Gen AI data solutions
• Experience with oncology product launches.
• Continually scans the external environment for new valuable data assets and potential data partnerships in the assigned area.
• Conducts data needs assessments in assigned areas using input from key analytics and business stakeholders, identifies gaps in current data strategy versus ideal state & prioritizes identified gaps.
• For assigned areas, builds and executes plans to fill prioritized gaps, including acquisition of new assets from external sources, or identifying partners to create needed assets, or enacting internal initiatives such as gathering new 1st party assets.
• Partners with internal team to ingest/review external data sources for use by the analytic teams
• Conducts assigned data innovation analytics including data quality assessments, fit-for-purpose analyses, and proof-of-concept use case tests.
• Works in close collaboration with the analytics, master data management teams to ensure appropriate implementation and value realization.
• Responsible for forming and maintaining productive working partnerships with assigned data providers.
• Creates an environment of high-performance collaboration by building strong cross-functional teams

Skills

Business acumen

Data valuation

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Trusted advisor

Adaptability

Education

BS in Data Science

MBA/MS/PhD a plus

Tools

EMR/EHR data

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. is seeking an Associate Director – Data Strategy, Oncology to drive data strategy within the Digital Human Health (DHH) DSPI team in Rahway, NJ.

You will partner with commercial stakeholders to shape data assets across HCP, payer, and patient domains and lead cross-functional collaborations to enable oncology data solutions. The role focuses on understanding the oncology data landscape, identifying gaps, and executing plans to acquire or partner for assets, including 1st/3rd