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Summary
The ideal location for this role is East Hanover, NJ site but remote work may be possible (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. If associate is remote, all home office expenses and any travel/lodging to specific East Hanover, NJ site for periodic live meetings will be at the employee’s expense. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the hiring manager. This position will require 15% travel.
Lead two critical capability areas within Advanced Analytics & Modeling (AA&M): enterprise Key Drivers Analytics (KDA) capability and the Associate Director team that scales across the portfolio providing Advanced Analytics solutions.
As KDA capability owner, apply advanced multivariate and diagnostic methods to explain what is driving performance across brands, markets, accounts, customers, and geographies, and translate that evidence into clear, prioritized actions.
As leader of the Associate Director team, deploy analytics talent across Precision Health, Integrated Promotion Mix Modeling (IPMM), KDA, AI & Unstructured Intelligence, and ad-hoc priorities set quarterly by the Executive Director, AA&M, so the AA&M portfolio delivers decision-ready evidence at scale.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the enterprise KDA (Key Driver Analytics) capability, including roadmap, methodologies, standards, governance, and delivery across priority business decisions.
- Lead and develop a team of Associate Directors, ensuring high-quality execution, talent growth, and effective deployment against enterprise priorities.
- Drive an integrated US-Hyderabad operating model, partnering with Advanced Analytics leadership to align roadmap, capabilities, capacity, and delivery.
- Lead end-to-end advanced analytics engagements, including business problem framing, hypothesis development, analytical design, model validation, insight generation, and recommendations.
- Define and execute multivariate driver analyses, segmentation, archetyping, diagnostic assessments, and scenario modeling to identify factors influencing business performance.
- Translate analytical insights into actionable recommendations, decision frameworks, and performance improvement strategies that drive measurable business impact.
- Prioritize capability investments and analytics initiatives based on strategic value, business needs, capacity, and organizational objectives.
- Partner cross-functionally with Customer & Patient Intelligence, SPT, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless execution, scalability, and adoption of analytical solutions.
- Establish and maintain standards for analytical rigor, validation, reproducibility, compliance, responsible AI, documentation, and quality assurance.
- Build reusable analytical assets, methods, and best practices while enabling Hyderabad teams to independently deliver increasingly complex and scalable KDA solutions.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in advanced analytics, data science, decision science, or commercial analytics in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or comparably complex industry experience.
- Previous experience leading a team, directly or indirectly
- Executive communication, stakeholder influence, and capacity management.
- Demonstrated leadership of driver, segmentation, diagnostic, or performance analytics programs that informed business action.
- Experience leading analytical programs from business-question framing through executive recommendation, adoption, and impact measurement.
- Experience leading analytics professionals, deploying talent flexibly across priorities, and delivering through globally distributed teams.
- Key-driver analysis, multivariate modeling, segmentation and archetyping, performance diagnostics, and scenario analytics.
- Working fluency across adjacent methods (predictive, patient analytics, IPMM/ROI, causal inference) sufficient to lead a flexible team.
- Strong judgment on correlation vs. causation, uncertainty, confounding, data limitations, and practical significance.
- Statistical programming and reproducible analytical workflows.
Desirable Requirements:
- Launch, account, subnational, or access analytics.
- Partnering with technology or platform teams to productize analytical solutions.
Novartis Compensation Summary:
The salary for this position is expected to range between $194,600.00 and $ 361,400.00
The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.
Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.
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? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)
EEO Statement:
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Accessibility & Reasonable Accommodations
The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to us.reasonableaccommodations@novartis.com or call +1(877)395-2339 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Summary
The ideal location for this role is East Hanover, NJ site but remote work may be possible (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. If associate is remote, all home office expenses and any travel/lodging to specific East Hanover, NJ site for periodic live meetings will be at the employee’s expense. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the hiring manager. This position will require 15% travel.
Lead two critical capability areas within Advanced Analytics & Modeling (AA&M): enterprise Key Drivers Analytics (KDA) capability and the Associate Director team that scales across the portfolio providing Advanced Analytics solutions.
As KDA capability owner, apply advanced multivariate and diagnostic methods to explain what is driving performance across brands, markets, accounts, customers, and geographies, and translate that evidence into clear, prioritized actions.
As leader of the Associate Director team, deploy analytics talent across Precision Health, Integrated Promotion Mix Modeling (IPMM), KDA, AI & Unstructured Intelligence, and ad-hoc priorities set quarterly by the Executive Director, AA&M, so the AA&M portfolio delivers decision-ready evidence at scale.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the enterprise KDA (Key Driver Analytics) capability, including roadmap, methodologies, standards, governance, and delivery across priority business decisions.
- Lead and develop a team of Associate Directors, ensuring high-quality execution, talent growth, and effective deployment against enterprise priorities.
- Drive an integrated US-Hyderabad operating model, partnering with Advanced Analytics leadership to align roadmap, capabilities, capacity, and delivery.
- Lead end-to-end advanced analytics engagements, including business problem framing, hypothesis development, analytical design, model validation, insight generation, and recommendations.
- Define and execute multivariate driver analyses, segmentation, archetyping, diagnostic assessments, and scenario modeling to identify factors influencing business performance.
- Translate analytical insights into actionable recommendations, decision frameworks, and performance improvement strategies that drive measurable business impact.
- Prioritize capability investments and analytics initiatives based on strategic value, business needs, capacity, and organizational objectives.
- Partner cross-functionally with Customer & Patient Intelligence, SPT, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless execution, scalability, and adoption of analytical solutions.
- Establish and maintain standards for analytical rigor, validation, reproducibility, compliance, responsible AI, documentation, and quality assurance.
- Build reusable analytical assets, methods, and best practices while enabling Hyderabad teams to independently deliver increasingly complex and scalable KDA solutions.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in advanced analytics, data science, decision science, or commercial analytics in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or comparably complex industry experience.
- Previous experience leading a team, directly or indirectly
- Executive communication, stakeholder influence, and capacity management.
- Demonstrated leadership of driver, segmentation, diagnostic, or performance analytics programs that informed business action.
- Experience leading analytical programs from business-question framing through executive recommendation, adoption, and impact measurement.
- Experience leading analytics professionals, deploying talent flexibly across priorities, and delivering through globally distributed teams.
- Key-driver analysis, multivariate modeling, segmentation and archetyping, performance diagnostics, and scenario analytics.
- Working fluency across adjacent methods (predictive, patient analytics, IPMM/ROI, causal inference) sufficient to lead a flexible team.
- Strong judgment on correlation vs. causation, uncertainty, confounding, data limitations, and practical significance.
- Statistical programming and reproducible analytical workflows.
Desirable Requirements:
- Launch, account, subnational, or access analytics.
- Partnering with technology or platform teams to productize analytical solutions.
Novartis Compensation Summary:
The salary for this position is expected to range between $194,600.00 and $ 361,400.00
The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.
Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.
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? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)
EEO Statement:
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Accessibility & Reasonable Accommodations
The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to us.reasonableaccommodations@novartis.com or call +1(877)395-2339 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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in analytics lead jobs.
- 5 or more years of experience in analytics, data science, or a related field
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language such as Python or R
- Experience with business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI
- Demonstrated ability to translate data findings into business recommendations for non-technical stakeholders
- Experience designing and interpreting A/B tests and statistical experiments
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, economics, or computer science
Tips for Your Analytics Lead Job Search
Quantify impact on your resume
Analytics lead roles demand evidence of business outcomes, not just technical tasks. Replace descriptions like 'built dashboards' with the decision they enabled or the metric they moved. Hiring managers distinguish leads from individual contributors by the scope of measurable influence you demonstrate.
Highlight cross-functional leadership explicitly
Many analytics lead candidates bury stakeholder work inside project bullets. Dedicate a clear resume section or summary line to the teams you partnered with, the business questions you owned, and how you translated data into decisions for non-technical audiences.
Target openings by analytics maturity level
An analytics lead at a startup building infrastructure differs sharply from one at an enterprise optimizing existing systems. Read job descriptions for signals like 'greenfield,' 'scale,' or 'modernize' to match your experience to where the company actually is, not where they want to be.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists analytics lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a portfolio of analytical decisions
Interviewers for lead roles ask how you framed a problem, not just how you solved it. Prepare two or three concise case narratives covering the business context, your analytical approach, the recommendation you made, and what happened after it was acted on.
Negotiate scope before negotiating title
In analytics lead offers, the team size, tool budget, and reporting structure shape your day-to-day more than the title does. Before accepting, ask directly who you will influence, what decisions you will own, and whether the role has a path to managing people if that matters to you.
Analytics Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most analytics leads?
The companies hiring the most analytics leads right now include JPMorganChase, ProcDNA, and Deloitte, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations consistently account for the largest volume of analytics lead postings.
How many analytics lead jobs are remote?
About 82% of analytics lead openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making it one of the more location-flexible senior individual contributor roles. Sub-areas like marketing analytics, product analytics, and data strategy tend to have the highest share of remote arrangements, while roles requiring embedded collaboration with operations or supply chain teams skew toward on-site or hybrid.
How do you become an analytics lead?
Start by building deep proficiency in SQL, a scripting language like Python or R, and at least one business intelligence tool. Seek out projects where you own a business question end-to-end rather than executing assigned tasks. Develop a habit of presenting findings to non-technical stakeholders and documenting the decisions your analysis influenced. From there, target roles that explicitly require cross-functional ownership or people mentorship to formalize your leadership scope.
Can you get hired as an analytics lead without prior leadership experience?
Yes, especially if you can demonstrate informal leadership through your portfolio. Employers often promote strong individual contributors into lead roles when candidates show evidence of mentoring peers, driving analytical frameworks adopted by a team, or owning a domain independently. Framing past project work around influence, stakeholder alignment, and scaled impact matters more than a prior title that included the word 'lead.'
What does the analytics lead interview process look like?
The process typically includes a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on past analytical projects and leadership approach, a take-home or live technical assessment covering SQL and possibly Python or statistics, and a final panel with cross-functional stakeholders. Many employers add a presentation round where you walk through a past analysis or a case study, emphasizing how you communicated findings and drove a business decision.
Where can I find and apply to analytics lead jobs?
You can find and apply to analytics lead jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the available listings, find the roles that match your experience and the type of work you want to do, and apply directly to each one that fits.
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