Senior Analytics Lead – End-to-End Modeling & Impact

Novartis Group Companies; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 328,000; Full time

Job summary

The Novartis Group of Companies seeks an Associate Director, Advanced Analytics & Modeling, to lead end-to-end analytical engagements across launches, therapeutic areas, and enterprise initiatives. You will champion methodological depth while collaborating with the Hyderabad team and senior stakeholders.

Role emphasizes problem framing, model selection, execution quality, and executive-ready recommendations, with hybrid/remote options and travel as defined by management.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Decision Science, Commercial Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Econometrics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.
• Demonstrated depth in at least one area such as promotion effectiveness, ROI/response-curve analysis, resource optimization, causal inference, segmentation, or predictive modeling.
• Demonstrated experience leading analytical work from problem framing through to executive recommendation.
• Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or similarly complex data-rich commercial industry experience preferred.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and translating them into an integrated view of performance or opportunity.
• Experience partnering directly with business stakeholders and presenting analytical findings to senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Member of a bench of five Associate Director-level Advanced Analytics Leads, deployed against priority enterprise, launch, portfolio, and in-market work as directed by the ED and capability Directors.
• Supports three capability areas: Promotion Effectiveness, Measurement & Resource Optimization; Key Drivers & Action Planning Analytics; and Predictive Modeling & Precision Health.
• Holds a primary capability home providing methodological depth, while contributing across the other capability areas as demand and priorities shift.
• End-to-end accountability for assigned analytical engagements - from problem framing through executive-ready recommendation - under the methodological direction of the relevant capability Director.
• Directs and quality-assures analytical execution carried out by Hyderabad team members on assigned engagements; no direct reports.
• Applies and contributes to enterprise analytical standards and reusable approaches; does not set them.

Skills

Advanced Analytics

Data Science

Decision Science

Marketing Analytics

Econometrics

Operations Research

Stakeholder Engagement

Executive Presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Pandas Python Library

Python

R Programming

SQL

Job description

The Novartis Group of Companies seeks an Associate Director, Advanced Analytics & Modeling, to lead end-to-end analytical engagements across launches, therapeutic areas, and enterprise initiatives. You will champion methodological depth while collaborating with the Hyderabad team and senior stakeholders.

Role emphasizes problem framing, model selection, execution quality, and executive-ready recommendations, with hybrid/remote options and travel as defined by management.