Associate Director, GDO Trial Performance Intelligence & Strategy

Goals

The Associate Director, Trial Performance & Intelligence Strategy, will support the operationalization of insights that enhance business decision-making, with the aim of improving trial delivery, helping reduce costs, and strengthening the quality of trial execution.

• Partner in shaping and executing the trial performance intelligence strategy for GDO by contributing to prioritized KPI, benchmark, and measurement frameworks that support trial delivery and portfolio decision-making.
• Lead the development and refinement of business intelligence capabilities and reporting approaches that improve data ingestion, integration, interpretation, and usability for trial performance insights.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights and leadership-ready outputs that support timely decision-making by R&D stakeholders and study teams.
• Drive the operational application of insights within study planning and execution to improve cost, quality, and speed outcomes within the assigned scope.
• Build effective partnerships across internal stakeholders such as CSSE, GCDO, CSCS, TAUs, CROs, and related R&D functions to align on priorities, encourage adoption, and sustain use of insights.

Accountabilities

• Support the execution of trial performance intelligence strategy by contributing to the definition and application of standardized KPIs, benchmarks, and success measures aligned to GDO and R&D priorities.
• Lead analysis of trial performance at the portfolio or program level to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and key drivers of outcomes, and recommend prioritized actions to improve performance.
• Lead operational trial intelligence, reporting, and data visualization support for internal initiatives and strategic projects, serving as the escalation point for emergent issues while driving cross-functional coordination, timely execution, and measurable impact.
• Proactively surface both tactical and longer-term trial performance needs by assessing business impact and partnering with stakeholders to clarify requirements and opportunities.
• Contributes to prioritization of trial performance and intelligence initiatives by helping assess value, feasibility, and alignment to GDO and R&D strategy.
• Embed trial performance insights into study planning, execution, and reporting to improve cost, quality, and speed outcomes within assigned scope.
• Translate business and scientific questions into insight-driven analyses and outputs that are aligned to stakeholder needs and decision-making timelines.
• Generate and apply actionable insights from diverse data sources to support study planning, execution, reporting, and operational decision-making across GDO and R&D.
• Partner effectively with global stakeholders and functional leaders including GDO, DQS, TAUs, CROs, and other R&D functions to align on insights, drive adoption, and ensure consistent use of performance outputs.
• Promote a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement by encouraging data-driven behaviors and adoption of performance insights across teams.
• Partner with data governance teams and business stakeholders to promote data quality, stewardship, and trusted data use in support of decision-making across GDO.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors' Degree or international equivalent in Life Sciences, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8 or more years of applicable business intelligence, and/or drug development experience; global experience and experience in drug development strongly preferred.
• Experience in people leadership, managing global teams and coordinating collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between business requirements and data required.
• Experience working with IT partners and vendors for business solutions desired.
• Strong strategic thinking, planning, execution, and communication skills, ability to act at operational and strategic levels.
• Global/international experience required, including ability to collaborate with colleagues and staff in other locations.
• Operational experience in pharmaceutical drug development with significant direct exposure to clinical development.
• Healthcare business acumen with a comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry highly advantageous.