Senior Director, Global Analytics & Insights, Cell Therapy

AstraZeneca; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca in South San Francisco seeks a Senior Director to lead Global Analytics & Insights for the Cell Therapy Enterprise, partnering with cross-functional leaders to shape portfolio strategy and long-range plans from development through commercialization.

The role requires deep therapy area knowledge, executive engagement skills, and the ability to translate data into strategic guidance for priority assets, indications, and market access considerations.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in science, mathematics, or MBA required.
• Minimum 6 years of analytical and market research experience in pharma or consulting.
• Excellent communication and executive engagement skills.
• Experience in strategy roles within pharmaceutical or life science consulting.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio-wide, cross-indication analysis and strategic projects with cross-functional partners.
• Shape portfolio strategy, asset development plans, and long-range business planning.
• Lead cell therapy insights and support clinical development, indication strategy, and future commercialization.
• Develop objective quantitative analyses and business cases for cell-therapy specific considerations.
• Manage relationships with external market research vendors and explore advanced analytics.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Executive engagement

Strategy experience pharma

Data-driven decision making

Pharma consulting experience

Education

Advanced degree in science or mathematics or MBA

Job description

At AstraZeneca, every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives every day. Each of us believes that science can change lives and to deliver this takes many people with many skill sets. When we deliver a life-changing medicine, that success comes from the combined efforts of all our people.

Within the AstraZeneca Cell Therapy Enterprise, our ambition is to realize the full potential of cell therapy for people living with cancer, immune-mediated and rare diseases around the world. This unit has responsibility for the value chain from discovery through to late-stage development and commercialization. We are rapidly progressing a broad pipeline of cell therapies in collaboration with AstraZeneca's Therapeutic Area Units.

The Global Analytics & Insights mission is to improve the quality of decisions for our assets and across our disease areas by providing high-quality market, customer, and competitor analytics. The Senior Director, Global Analytics & Insights, Cell Therapy, will report to the Global Commercial Head, Cell Therapy, and lead a program of insights and analysis for the Cell Therapy Enterprise, supporting priority assets from clinical development through commercialization across prioritized disease areas. In addition, the role will provide deep insights and strategic direction in support of enterprise-level initiatives and key commercial decisions.

Who You Are

You bring an independent, objective, and future-oriented point of view- comfortable building the analytical foundation for a new modality rather than inheriting an established one. You move fluidly between rigorous quantitative analysis and clear, senior-level storytelling that changes minds.

Responsibilities

Portfolio-wide, cross-indication analysis and strategic projects

• Act as the Global Analytics & Insights point of contact for the Cell Therapy Enterprise, partnering with cross-functional leaders and priority markets to shape portfolio strategy, asset development plans, and long-range business planning.
• Build personal and institutional knowledge of key disease areas in the space, including HCP and patient insights, market dynamics, competitive landscape, and key implications on the AZ portfolio.
• Lead strategic projects across the cell therapy portfolio in partnership with Cell Therapy Enterprise leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Serve as a cell therapy insights expert, building the capabilities, evidence, and market understanding needed to support clinical development plans, asset prioritization, indication strategy, and future commercialization.

Global Analytics & Insights lead for priority cell therapy assets and indications

• Develop a deep therapy area knowledge bridging from clinical development through to commercialization.
• Uncover deep strategic understanding of patients, markets, collaborators, competitors, and brands to drive competitive advantage now and for the future.
• Partner strategically with Global Commercial, R&D, Medical, Regulatory, Market Access, and Operations teams, bringing objective insights to key asset and portfolio decisions.
• Provide an independent view in decision-making bodies with an external perspective and a future-oriented focus.
• Integrate insights from clinical, market, customer, competitor, access, and treatment-delivery sources to inform target product profiles, development choices, indication sequencing, portfolio prioritization, and robust opportunity-focused forecasts.
• Develop objective quantitative analyses and business cases that reflect cell therapy-specific considerations, including eligible patient identification, referral pathways, treatment-center readiness, manufacturing capacity, vein-to-vein time, access, and scalability.
• Manage relationships and budgets with external market research, forecasting, and data/analytics vendors and partners.
• Explore advanced analytics and predictive modeling suited to cell therapy unique delivery model.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Advanced degree in a Science or Mathematics Discipline and/or MBA.
• Minimum 6 years of analytical and market research experience in the pharmaceutical/consulting industry.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with senior executive engagement and communication.
• Experience in a similar strategy role within the pharmaceutical industry or life science consulting.
• Ability to use data and analysis to affect, influence, or change the understanding of a market or customer.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Cell therapy, advanced therapies, or oncology development experience (strongly preferred).
• 4+ years of experience in a consulting, advisory, or investment firm working within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience supporting early-stage or pre-launch assets, including indication prioritization, target product profile development, forecasting under uncertainty, and commercialization readiness.
• Experience working in a global team.

At AstraZeneca, we are on a journey to bring life-saving medicines to patients. Our role in