Strategic Insights Lead

Strategic Insights Lead

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website.

This position is based in Northbrook, Illinois. Hybrid work from certain states may be permitted in accordance with Astellas' Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. Candidates interested in hybrid work are encouraged to apply.

Purpose :

The Strategic Insights Lead is a senior leader reporting to the Head, Customer Engagement Excellence. This leader is both visionary and results driven with a track record of success transforming similar organizations into customer focused teams delivering critical "run the business" insights e.g. market intelligence, competitive insights, and forecasting - while building leading capabilities for the future. Global Insights function is core to our ability to deliver growth, enable innovation, and drive operational excellence across all regions and therapeutic areas.

This role will be accountable for building people capabilities covering a broad range of activities at the global, regional and local levels that include but are not limited to brand team performance, competitive intelligence, customer insights, forecasting, impact analyses, and omnichannel execution. This leader brings a mix of advance technical skills along with an innate ability to coach and direct his people on ways to work with a variety of stakeholders e.g. marketing, medical affairs, market access, global brand strategy, corporate strategy, new product portfolio, finance, development - while consistently delivering results.

This leader will take pride in people development. With a team of ~100 across 26 regions / markets, the Strategic Insights Lead will be expected to continuously enhance the performance through technical skill improvements, stakeholder management, coaching and thought leadership development. Their teams support the insight and analytics of stakeholders in markets and above, requiring this leader to operate at levels of the organization and across the brand life cycle.

Essential Job Responsibilities :

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute the global vision for insights aligned with corporate strategy and long-term growth objectives.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, enabling data-informed decision-making across market, market access, medical affairs, new product portfolio, global brand, finance and corporate functions.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting, forecasting, and insight generation.
• Thought leader responsible for defining the standards, processes and future capabilities needed to enhance our use of insights leading to decisions that better informed by data.
• Interfaces closely with other teams across local, regional and global teams including local brand teams, asset maximization teams and hubs to ensure best practices and top skills are applied to key activities.

Value Delivery Insights

Local Brand Team / Market Insights

Team & Capability Development

Stakeholder Engagement