Global Head of Analytics Strategy, Solutions & Insights (m/f/d) (Various Locations, AT, BE, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, NL, PT)
Professional | Permanent | Full-time | Mobile Work
Are you an entrepreneurial thinker? Do you want to join a dynamic team with a strong sense of purpose that thrives on finding new ways to tackle challenges? Then our Commercial, Marketing & Sales team is the right place for you: whether you’re passionate about Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Commercial Excellence or Sales. We analyse the market to find out exactly what patients need, and then we provide pain treatments that improve their lives – while creating value for Grünenthal. We strive to make progress towards our vision of a world free of pain – every single day, one patient at a time. We’d love you to help us make a powerful impact on the lives of people living with pain around the globe.
What the job looks like As part of your day-to-day responsibilities, you will:
- Own and lead the company’s global commercial data and analytics capability, ensuring data is easy to access, reliable, and truly useful for decision making.
- Transform today’s fragmented and manual data landscape into an integrated, automated analytics platform that supports brands, countries, and leadership teams.
- Define a pragmatic, multi year analytics roadmap that fits a mid size pharmaceutical company — balancing innovation, speed, scalability, and cost.
- Ensure commercial data (sales, CRM, omnichannel, patient, market research, etc.) is consistently collected, integrated, and governed across key markets.
- Move the organization beyond basic reporting toward predictive and action oriented insights (e.g. forecasting, targeting, scenario planning).
- Translate complex data into clear insights, decision rules, dashboards, and playbooks embedded into daily commercial workflows.
- Build analytics products and simple self service tools that support brand teams, country leadership, and the field force.
- Establish strong data governance, quality, privacy, and compliance standards in collaboration with IT, Legal, and Compliance.
- Build and lead a high performing analytics team, while improving data literacy across commercial teams.
- Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing fast, high quality analytics to support key business decisions.
What you’ll bring to the table To make the most of this role and truly thrive, you should have:
- An advanced degree in data, analytics, computer science, statistics, or a related field; an MBA or pharma specific qualification is a plus.
- 15+ years of experience in data and analytics, including senior leadership roles within pharmaceutical or life sciences commercial environments.
- A proven track record of leading data transformation initiatives, from architecture and engineering to advanced analytics adoption.
- Strong hands on understanding of cloud data platforms, data engineering, BI/visualisation, and advanced analytics (e.g. SQL, Python, Power BI).
- Deep knowledge of pharma commercial operations, including sales, marketing, omnichannel engagement, market access, and brand planning.
- Experience working with key pharma data types and platforms (e.g. sales data, CRM, patient level data, marketing automation systems).
- Solid understanding of data governance, master data management, and healthcare data privacy requirements.
- A strategic yet pragmatic leadership style, able to connect technical solutions with real business needs.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics to non technical stakeholders and executives.
- Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop high performing teams and drive change in complex organizations.