Director, Advanced Analytics & Modeling Key Drivers Analytics (KDA) and CoE Lead

Novartis Group Companies; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 361,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Group of Companies in East Hanover, NJ seeks an Associate Director to lead the enterprise Key Driver Analytics (KDA) capability and manage a cross-functional team delivering advanced analytics at scale. The role spans US-Hyderabad operations, guiding analytics strategy, governance, and adoption of insights across brands and markets.

The position requires 8+ years in analytics within pharma/healthcare, strong leadership, stakeholder influence, and expertise in multivariate modeling and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years in advanced analytics, data science, or decision science in pharma/healthcare.
• Experience leading teams and driving analytics programs end-to-end.
• Executive communication, stakeholder influence, and capacity management.
• Experience leading analytics professionals across globally distributed teams.
• Proven ability in driver, segmentation, diagnostic, or performance analytics.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise KDA capability, including roadmap, standards, governance, and delivery.
• Lead and develop a team of Associate Directors for enterprise priorities.
• Drive a US-Hyderabad operating model and align roadmap and delivery.
• Lead end-to-end analytics engagements from framing to recommendations.
• Define multivariate driver analyses, segmentation, and scenario modeling.
• Translate insights into actionable recommendations and decision frameworks.
• Prioritize analytics investments based on value and capacity.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure scalable adoption of solutions.
• Establish standards for rigor, validation, and reproducibility.
• Build reusable analytical assets enabling Hyderabad teams to scale.

Skills

Executive communication

Leadership

Driver analytics

Multivariate modeling

Segmentation

Forecasting / scenario analytics

Statistical programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Job Description Summary

#LI-Hybrid

The ideal location for this role is East Hanover, NJ site but remote work may be possible (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. If associate is remote, all home office expenses and any travel/lodging to specific East Hanover, NJ site for periodic live meetings will be at the employee's expense. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the hiring manager. This position will require 15% travel.

Lead two critical capability areas within Advanced Analytics & Modeling (AA&M): enterprise Key Drivers Analytics (KDA) capability and the Associate Director team that scales across the portfolio providing Advanced Analytics solutions.

As KDA capability owner, apply advanced multivariate and diagnostic methods to explain what is driving performance across brands, markets, accounts, customers, and geographies, and translate that evidence into clear, prioritized actions.

As leader of the Associate Director team, deploy analytics talent across Precision Health, Integrated Promotion Mix Modeling (IPMM), KDA, AI & Unstructured Intelligence, and ad-hoc priorities set quarterly by the Executive Director, AA&M, so the AA&M portfolio delivers decision-ready evidence at scale.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the enterprise KDA (Key Driver Analytics) capability, including roadmap, methodologies, standards, governance, and delivery across priority business decisions.
• Lead and develop a team of Associate Directors, ensuring high-quality execution, talent growth, and effective deployment against enterprise priorities.
• Drive an integrated US-Hyderabad operating model, partnering with Advanced Analytics leadership to align roadmap, capabilities, capacity, and delivery.
• Lead end-to-end advanced analytics engagements, including business problem framing, hypothesis development, analytical design, model validation, insight generation, and recommendations.
• Define and execute multivariate driver analyses, segmentation, archetyping, diagnostic assessments, and scenario modeling to identify factors influencing business performance.
• Translate analytical insights into actionable recommendations, decision frameworks, and performance improvement strategies that drive measurable business impact.
• Prioritize capability investments and analytics initiatives based on strategic value, business needs, capacity, and organizational objectives.
• Partner cross-functionally with Customer & Patient Intelligence, SPT, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless execution, scalability, and adoption of analytical solutions.
• Establish and maintain standards for analytical rigor, validation, reproducibility, compliance, responsible AI, documentation, and quality assurance.
• Build reusable analytical assets, methods, and best practices while enabling Hyderabad teams to independently deliver increasingly complex and scalable KDA solutions.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in advanced analytics, data science, decision science, or commercial analytics in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or comparably complex industry experience.
• Previous experience leading a team, directly or indirectly
• Executive communication, stakeholder influence, and capacity management.
• Demonstrated leadership of driver, segmentation, diagnostic, or performance analytics programs that informed business action.
• Experience leading analytical programs from business-question framing through executive recommendation, adoption, and impact measurement.
• Experience leading analytics professionals, deploying talent flexibly across priorities, and delivering through globally distributed teams.
• Key-driver analysis, multivariate modeling, segmentation and archetyping, performance diagnostics, and scenario analytics.
• Working fluency across adjacent methods (predictive, patient analytics, IPMM/ROI, causal inference) sufficient to lead a flexible team.
• Strong judgment on correlation vs. causation, uncertainty, confounding, data limitations, and practical significance.
• Statistical programming and reproducible analytical workflows.

Desirable Requirements:

• Launch, account, subnational, or access analytics.
• Partnering with technology or platform teams to productize analytical solutions.

Novartis Compensation Summary:

The salary for this position is expected to range between $194,600.00 and $ 361,400.00

The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.

Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.

US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

EEO Statement:

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Accessibility and reasonable accommodations

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Salary Range

$194,600.00 - $361,400.00

Skills Desired

Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Value Creation, Change Management, Curious Mindset, Data Governance, Data Literacy, Data Quality, Data Science, Data Strategies, Data Visualization, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Learning Agility, Machine Learning (ML), Machine Learning Algorithms, Mentorship, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Organizational Awareness, Stakeholder Engagement, Statistical Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Vision Planning, Visualizations