Associate Director - EMEA Regional Analytics

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IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics, and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward.

Applied Data Science Center (ADSC) & Strategic Analytics & Insights (SA&I)

A core part of R&D Solutions, ADSC harnesses our global healthcare insights, working closely with our clinical and therapeutic experts to power evidence-driven design, speed site activation and recruit the right patients, faster. We’re using big data and advanced analytics to derive insights that transform clinical development and bring new medicines to patients faster through successful trial delivery.

This multi-functional team is an innovation for our business, requiring entrepreneurial and independent thinking to build our capability. Unique and with a global view, we revolutionize the clinical research industry.

ADSC SA&I Team is focused in leveraging analytics and using a consultative approach to develop insights that inform strategic and operational decision-making and drive unified clinical development strategies and solutions from pre award through trial execution.

Principal Accountabilities:

As Associate Director, EMEA Regional Analytics, you will serve as the primary liaison between ADSC Strategic Analytics & Insights and IQVIA R&D Solutions' organizations and related external organizations primarily in EMEA to drive digital innovations. You will balance your analytics, technology, and healthcare consulting experience.

Embedded in the R&D Solutions’ key business processes, you will lead business stakeholder engagements to identify and prioritize business problems to be addressed with data analytics. You will oversee 5 local direct reports and several offshore resources in the design, development and delivery of data analytics solutions to address identified business problems, working with other SA&I team members, e.g. ASL (Analytics Strategy Lead) as needed. This role is a key interface between stakeholders and ADSC Strategic Analytics & Insights and must have the ability to interpret requests and provide insights to support the overall business needs.

Specific activities include:

• Embedded in the R&D Solutions’ key business processes, identify and prioritize business problems to be addressed with data analytics
• In collaboration with ASLs and R&D Solutions business owners, build country-/region-level analytics team capabilities that will develop and deliver clinical analytics leveraging country-level IQVIA data assets to support R&D Solutions needs
• Develop and execute the regional team’s strategies aligned with the wider SA&I and ADSC strategies
• Support business partnership and empower data-driven decisions by working with structured and unstructured data sets, building analytics solutions, and advising business stakeholders on data solutions development
• Lead data innovation task force and guide the development and delivery of high value and differentiating analytic insights to enhance trial strategy and execution
• Translate and communicate results, recommendations, and opportunities to improve data solutions to internal and external leadership with easily consumable reports and presentations
• Stay updated on IQVIA offerings and newly acquired assets for developing R&D Solutions opportunities and identify new areas of growth, outside the scope of existing solutions, e.g. data exploration, data acquisition, visualization
• Proactively continue to strengthen subject matter expertise within business partnership
• Direct analytical methodology research, project execution, streamlining processes and efficiencies

Qualifications and capabilities:

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A Master’s degree in Statistics, Science, Economics, Business, Computer Science or a related field
• At least five years of relevant quantitative experience analysing data
• Experience working with large volumes of complex health data
• A good understanding of data modelling, visualization
• A solid understanding of data science, ML / AI with a sound foundation in statistics
• Strong people and performance management experience
• Ability to bridge the technical expertise of data engineers and data scientists with the operational expertise of business functions and business leaders
• Strong understanding of local / regional health sector and data
• Demonstrated project leadership
• Strong interpersonal skills, communication and presentation skills
• Local language skills, to an advanced level (spoken and written), with complete fluency in English.

We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people. Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and

Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there!

We invite you to join IQVIA™.

At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 67,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.