Position: Senior Director Global Analytics & Insights Oncology – Secondment/Fixed-Term Contract

Period: 10 months from approximately Jan 2027 to Oct 2027

Location: Cambridge, UK  

Competitive Salary & Excellent Company Benefits

Business Area – Oncology Business Unit (OBU) 

We’re all here to make an impact – to achieve our bold ambition of eliminating cancer as a cause of death.

In the Oncology Business Unit we relentlessly follow the science, challenging the status quo to deliver more effective treatments to patients in need. Our commitment means we purposefully push back the limits of knowledge to change the practice of medicine. To ensure no patient is left behind, no matter what stage of disease.

Fast-paced and ever-changing, it takes agility and responsiveness to stay committed in our pursuit of excellence. We work with focus and a sense of urgency to tackle the unanswered questions – innovating, challenging accepted norms, quick decision-making and taking smart risks. A place of trust, it’s an opportunity to take accountability, be brave, speak up, step up and disrupt to change the game for Oncology, now and in the future.

What you'll do

The Global Analytics & Insights mission is to improve the quality of the decisions taken on our assets and across our Disease Areas through the provision of excellent market, customer and competitor analytics.  This role will focus on the Lung and BiSp franchises and lead a programme of insight and analysis to support clinical development through commercialization in prioritized indications.

Analytics

• Work with data experts to conduct analysis of complex datasets, including electronic medical records, claims data, and quantitative survey raw data
• Share your commercial and strategic acumen with data experts- and ‘ask the right questions’, to generate actionable insights to inform strategic decisions

Insights

• Design strategy-shaping qualitative and quantitative market research – to build our deep customer understanding
• Lead insights synthesis process (with support from broader team) – connecting dots and looking for patterns / disconnects between all our analytics and primary market research materials and datasets

Forecasting

• Ensure every assumption is deeply interrogated – with primary and secondary data and RWD analytics.
• Direct forecast analysts to build and manage patient flow forecast models, and lead delivery of outputs for forecasting cycles

Performance

• Co-Lead KPI development, in partnership with commercial - identifying best measures to assess delivery of commercial strategy.  Ensuring they are measurable (data limitations), and actually drivers of business
• Analyze in-market performance – including source of business - to identify growth opportunities

General

• Move between being deep in data, to communicating findings in a succinct way that is tailored to the altitude of the stakeholder
• Possess or develop deep tumour knowledge – becoming an expert in your designated tumours (which may include lung, BTC, HCC, HNSCC, cervical) 

Essential

• Advanced degree in science, mathematics or data-related field / MBA
• Substantial relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry or consultancy  
• AI expertise
• Qualitative and Quantitative market research experience
• Oncology Experience

Desirable:

• Knowledge of real-world datasets such as Flatiron & IQVIA
• Commercial brand strategy experience

Interested? Apply now!

Applications closing date: 22 October 2026

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