Major Accountabilities

The ideal Insights Manager candidate is a strategic thinker with a strong analytical mindset who can see beyond the numbers to uncover actionable business insights. The candidate possess a blend of technical expertise, commercial acumen, and leadership skills to drive advanced analytics, optimize data infrastructure, and translate complex datasets into meaningful recommendations that influence business decisions.

Strategic Insights & Decision Support

• Go beyond reporting numbers—translate complex data into meaningful, actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making, optimize brand performance, and refine customer engagement strategies.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance analytical capabilities, leveraging AI-driven insights and advanced analytics to support brand and therapeutic area strategies.
• Provide a holistic, integrated view of the business by merging multiple data sources, uncovering deeper commercial implications, and identifying emerging market opportunities.
• Develop predictive models to anticipate market shifts, HCP engagement trends, and sales performance, supporting commercial excellence initiatives.

Performance Monitoring & Market Intelligence

• Analyze market trends, competitor movements, and brand performance within the assigned TA, ensuring insights are leveraged to optimize brand strategies.
• Monitor product launches for early signs of under- or over-performance, predicting uptake vs. plan and providing actionable recommendations.
• Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of analytics reporting, integrating all relevant data sources for comprehensive brand and TA reviews.
• Partner with Customer Insights and Engagement Manager to merge market intelligence with field performance data, providing a well-rounded business perspective.

Data Strategy & AI-Driven Solutions

• Oversee data pipelines, architecture, and infrastructure (e.g., data warehouse/lake, BI tools) to ensure timely, accurate, and secure data flow.
• Implement and maintain best practices for data quality, governance, and metadata management to ensure reliable analytics.
• Design, pilot, and scale AI-driven models and solutions, including predictive analytics, machine learning pipelines, and process automation, to enhance commercial decision-making.
• Drive the adoption of emerging technologies that add strategic or operational value, such as churn analysis, next-best-action recommendations, and AI-powered insights.

Collaboration & Operational Excellence

• Manage relationships with IT and external vendors to keep analytics platforms up to date, scalable, and aligned with business needs.
• Oversee the Hyderabad team to ensure smooth operations while retaining full ownership of AI and analytics strategy.
• Ensure compliance with all local, regional, and global reporting guidelines, tracking agreed KPIs and maintaining analytics best practices.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• University degree (ideally master’s) in Data Science, Business Management with focus on analytics, or a related field
• Full professional proficiency in English, proficiency in German (min B2), French is a valuable advantage
• 5+ years of experience in data science, business management with analytics focus, or a related field, ideally within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare industry
• Ability to connect data to business outcomes, looking beyond raw numbers to identify key trends, opportunities, and risks
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen with an understanding of market dynamics, competitor behavior, and customer engagement trends within the pharmaceutical or healthcare space
• Proficiency in programming languages such as SQL, Python, or R, along with experience using data platforms like Snowflake is a valuable advantage
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Proven ability to excel in fast-paced environments while managing multiple stakeholders effectively

To ensure a successful match for this role, we kindly ask that candidates only apply if:

• You have prior experience in a similar position, ideally within the health care industry
• You are proficient in the required programming languages
• You are comfortable conducting a job interview in German

Why Novartis?

Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that

change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? http://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and Rewards:

Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: http://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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