Associate Director, Strategic Insights

Associate Director, Strategic Insights

Job Summary:

The Strategic Insights team enhances the way in which Syneos Health shows up in front of commercial customers by providing insights derived from research, data analysis, and internal collaboration. The role will work daily on strategy development for new business opportunities, including market landscape analysis, team sizing and targeting, and customer-facing pitch delivery in Europe. The role will also work closely with many groups and individuals across the enterprise and provides broad exposure to the strategic and operational opportunities facing the leading pharmaceutical companies and Syneos Health.

This is both a strategic and analytical role that reports to the Sr. Director, Strategic Operations Insights

Essential Functions:
As a key foundation for the Commercial Organization, you will:

• Collaborate with Business Development and Commercial Leadership executives to develop proposals and pitch decks for client presentations, including delivery of analytic / strategic elements in pitch meetings
• Partner extensively with operational business partners and subject matter experts to combine perspectives and reach alignment across BD, Operations, and Finance on executable strategies
• Use primary and secondary market research data, business insights, competitive intelligence tools, information gathered from Syneos Health subject matter experts, and previous enterprise experience to develop value-creating solutions designed to address client needs
• Leverage insights to make actionable recommendations tied to Syneos Health Commercial offerings, identifying the ‘so what’ and ‘now what’
• Provide ongoing consultative support to the Commercial Business Development team by analytically enabling efforts to identify opportunities and build partnerships with key client organizations that drive revenue growth for Syneos Health
• Develop succinct cogent overviews of therapeutic areas, product promotional strategies, and pharmaceutical company challenges/opportunities
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and integration across Commercial, including providing navigation to information and sources of expertise
• Respond to ad hoc information/analytic requests from the Commercial community
• Work on a nimble, entrepreneurial team, within a matrixed organization

Required Qualifications:

• Professional business experience required in one of the following: solutions-oriented secondary research, analytics, consulting, or business development within the pharmaceutical/biotech industry
• Knowledge of and/or experience with general prescribing patterns, patient pathways, and access considerations in multiple European commercial pharma markets
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, preferably in Business, Marketing or Life Sciences. Master's or other advanced degree preferred (MBA, MPH, PhD, etc.)
• Analytical, solutions development, and structured problem-solving experience, preferably within the context of internal or external consulting/advisory support
• Excellent critical-thinking skills and ability to deconstruct complex problems that fall outside of standard operating procedures
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; familiarity with basic statistical modelling concepts
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Strong time management skills with the ability to support multiple competing priorities
• Intuitive and self-directed with the ability to work independently, as well as with groups
• Knowledge of common pharmaceutical data sets including sales, Rx, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including tact, discretion, and ethics

Preferred Qualifications:

• Consultative/client services experience strongly preferred
• Experience navigating large data sets
• Experience with creating content for external customer-facing delivery
• An entrepreneurial spirit, a desire to innovate and create, and comfort in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health? We partner with industry experts to solve and execute against today’s toughest commercialization challenges facing the world’s leading healthcare companies. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities on our Commercial Operations and Leadership teams. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients’ lives around the world.

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