Novartis
Director, Advanced Analytics & Modeling Key Drivers Analytics (KDA) and CoE Lead
$195K–$361K
Distant Employee - Distant Working Arrangement (DWA) (USA) +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Distant Employee - Distant Working Arrangement (DWA) (USA)
East Hanover (New Jersey) - Experience
- Minimum 8+ years; progressive experience in advanced analytics, data science, decision science, or commercial analytics in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or comparably complex industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field required; advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Leads Novartis’ enterprise Key Drivers Analytics capability and analytics team, delivering decision-ready analysis and recommendations across business priorities.
What you'll do
- Own KDA strategy, methods, standards, governance, and delivery; lead multivariate, segmentation, diagnostic, and scenario analyses.
- Lead and develop Associate Directors, deploying talent across portfolio priorities and coordinating the US-Hyderabad operating model.
- Guide analytics engagements from problem framing and model validation through recommendations, adoption, and measurable business impact.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or Operations Research.
- Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in advanced analytics, data science, decision science, or commercial analytics in the specified industries or comparably complex industry.
- Previous experience leading a team, directly or indirectly.
- Demonstrated leadership of driver, segmentation, diagnostic, or performance analytics programs that informed business action.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree.
- Launch, account, subnational, or access analytics; or experience partnering with technology or platform teams to productize analytical solutions.
Pay
$194,600.00 - $361,400.00 USD base salary
Tools
Statistical programming, multivariate modeling, segmentation, archetyping, scenario analytics, predictive, causal inference, IPMM/ROI
AI focus
Leads analytics work across AI & Unstructured Intelligence and establishes standards for responsible AI; AI-specific methods are not further specified.
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