Associate Director, Neuroscience Data Strategy

Experteer Overview

You’ll translate scientific priorities into a multi-year roadmap, build data products, and manage data partnerships to enable scalable research. This is an opportunity to shape data-enabled neuroscience programs at a global pharma leader.

• Translate R&D neuroscience priorities into a multi-year data roadmap
• Prioritize data initiatives based on clinical impact, regulatory readiness, speed to insight, and ROI
• Define success metrics and maintain the data roadmap with Neuroscience DSDH organization
• Lead end-to-end data-centric discussions across neuroscience programs (e.g., RWE studies, registries, biobanks, data platform builds, analytic model deployment)
• Partner with sub-teams driving data ingestion, curation, transformation and linkage across EHR, claims, genomic, imaging, and registry sources to create data products
• Orchestrate vendor and external data partner relationships, managing scopes, SLAs, and expectations
• Present insights and recommendations to senior leadership, guided by data-driven insights
• Collaborate with clinical, regulatory, and commercial functions to ensure data quality, reproducibility, and impactful outcomes

• 8–10+ years of experience in pharma/biotech R&D or commercial with significant exposure to procurement and/or data strategy
• 6+ years of experience with an advanced degree
• Hands-on experience with real-world data
• Experience with R, Python, or another coding language
• Direct involvement with Neuroscience collaborations or programs
• Deep understanding of neuroscience clinical care, endpoints, staging, biomarker/genomic data, and RWE regulatory landscape in neuroscience
• Experience designing observational studies, cohort design, causal inference methods, survival analysis; ability to discuss limitations
• Proven track record negotiating and managing commercial data providers and research vendors
• Strong ability to translate complex technical work into business recommendations for cross-functional and senior stakeholders
• Proven leadership of small multidisciplinary teams and influence without formal authority
• Pragmatic problem solving and ability to deliver usable outcomes quickly and iteratively
• Strategic thinker who connects tactical work to long-term business goals
• High standards for data quality, reproducibility, and documentation
• Collaboration and stakeholder management across clinical, regulatory, and commercial functions
• Comfort working in ambiguity and shaping new capabilities at scale

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