Director, Data & Analytics – Pharma/Biotech at JSR Tech Consulting in Pennington, NJ

Job description

• Location: Pennington, NJ
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid
• Employment Type: Contract/Contract-to-Hire
• Travel: Up to 20% domestic travel

Responsibilities

• • Serve as the business owner and subject-matter expert for commercial data assets and related analytics capabilities.
• • Lead the acquisition, integration, governance, quality, and optimization of claims, laboratory, CRM, patient-pathway, provider, media, omnichannel, and other third-party data.
• • Establish data standards, business rules, documentation, governance processes, and quality measures that improve data consistency, accessibility, integrity, and compliance.
• • Develop analyses supporting launch readiness, brand planning, market assessment, patient identification, patient journeys, commercial effectiveness, and performance monitoring.
• • Create dashboards, reports, KPIs, and executive-ready presentations that translate complex findings into clear business recommendations.
• • Own and optimize a modern commercial analytics environment that may include Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Veeva CRM, Veeva Network, Veeva OpenData, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and visualization tools.
• • Partner with Commercial, Market Access, Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Finance, IT, and executive stakeholders to translate business questions into scalable analytics solutions.
• • Manage analytics and technology vendors, project plans, deliverables, service levels, budgets, and timelines.
• • Evaluate new data, visualization, automation, and AI capabilities that can improve decision-making and operating efficiency.

Requirements

• • Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Information Systems, Business, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• • MBA, MS, MPH, or comparable advanced degree preferred.
• • Eight to ten years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare analytics, commercial operations, business intelligence, or a related function.
• • Demonstrated experience with healthcare claims, laboratory, patient-level, provider-level, and commercial data.
• • Experience with healthcare data products such as Komodo, Quest, Veeva Compass, Definitive Healthcare, IQVIA, Symphony, or comparable sources.
• • Experience managing cloud data and analytics infrastructure, ideally including Snowflake and modern integration tools such as Fivetran or dbt.
• • Strong dashboard and data-visualization experience using Power BI, Tableau, or a comparable platform.
• • Working knowledge of pharmaceutical commercialization, patient-journey analytics, market access, and product-launch planning.
• • Proven project and vendor management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• • Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical audiences.
• • Ability to work independently and move quickly within a lean, high-growth, pre-commercial environment.

Skills

Required

• Data analytics
• Data governance
• Data integration
• Data quality
• Project management
• Vendor management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Independent work