Job Description
Associate Specialist, VID Global Marketing Engagement, DHH
Our Digital Human Health (DHH) team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally, we are inventing new ways of engaging, interacting with our customers and patients leveraging digital, data and analytics and measuring the impact.
The Associate Specialist, Vaccines Global Commercial Pipeline Analytics, DHH will be responsible for developing and delivering data and analytics, generating strategic insights, and addressing key business questions from the Vaccines Global Marketing team to inform current and future pipeline Vaccines asset and portfolio strategies. The team member will partner closely with multiple cross-functional teams, including global marketing, regional marketing, clinical, outcomes research, medical affairs, as well as across the depth of the DHH organization.
Reporting to Senior Specialist, Global Marketing Engagement, within DHH, this role will lead development of analytics capabilities for the Infectious disease and vaccine portfolio priorities enabling the Infectious disease and vaccines new asset pipeline.
The successful candidate will ’connect the dots’ across DHH capability functions like market research, forecasting, payer insights & analytics, data science, data strategy & solutions.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Portfolio analytics: Develop and synthesize commercial data and insights for cross-portfolio priorities. Conceptualize and build set of analytics capabilities and tools anchored to our marketing and launch frameworks to support decision making for Global Vaccines portfolio and assets (e.g. market and competitor landscape assessment tools, Immunization eligibilities & vaccine hesitancy factors, benchmark libraries).
- **Analytics Delivery: **Hands on analytics project delivery with expertise in data manipulation, analysis, and visualization using tools such as Excel-VBA, SQL, R, Python, PowerBI, ThoughtSpot or similar technologies and capabilities. Ability to leverage a variety of patient modeling techniques including statistical, patient-flow, and simulations-based techniques for insight generation.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with global marketing teams, DHH teams, and other cross-functional teams to inform strategic decisions and increase commercial rigor through all phases of pipeline asset development.
- Communication and Transparency: Provide clear and synthesized communication to global marketing leaders and cross-functional teams, on commercial insights addressing the priority business questions.
Required Experience and Skills:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in a scientific, engineering, or business-related field.
- Overall experience of 0-3 years, with 1+ years of relevant experience in insights & analytics, advanced analytics, market research, strategic planning, marketing, or related roles within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
- Strong problem-solving abilities, to find and execute solutions to complex or ambiguous business problems.
- Experience conducting secondary data analytics on large datasets using relevant skills e.g., excel VBA, Python, SQL
- Deep understanding and hands on expertise in commercial Vaccines data ecosystem e.g., Epidemiology datasets, Country Immunization data, PAHO/WHO, commercialization and real-world datasets
- Experience in envisioning, architecting and developing data driven tools/dashboards using visualization tools (e.g. PowerBI)
- Strategic thinker who can be consultative, collaborative and “engage as equals.”
- Strong communication skills using effective storytelling grounded on data insights.
- Hands on expertise in building patient analytics and patient journey from commercial and real-world datasets (like WHO/ World Bank Immunization Datasets, e-LAAD, Symphony, Optum etc.)
· Relationship-building and influencing skills with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
· Ability to connect dots across sources, attention to detail
Preferred Experience and Skills:
• Experience in diverse healthcare datasets, insights, and analytics
- Experience in Life Science or consulting industry
- Therapeutic area experience in ‘Vaccine-Preventable Diseases’ preferred
- Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, PharmD, PhD) preferred.
- Global exposure preferred
Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics, and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.
Required Skills:
Business Decisions, Business Intelligence (BI), Cross-Functional Collaboration, Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Digital Analytics, Forecasting, Infectious Disease, Insight Generation, Machine Learning (ML), Marketing, Patient Flow, Relationship Building, Software Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Insights, Strategic Planning, Waterfall Model
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05/14/2026
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