Director, Omnichannel BU Analytics Lead

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, USA - North Carolina - Durham
Posted Date: Mar 3 2023

Director – Omnichannel BU Analytics Lead

Are you a strategic and inventive analytics professional interested in driving performance through the effective use of digital and media channels within the business? At GSK, we are focused on being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and ensuring that we do the right thing to help patients in need. We are accelerating our digital journey to maximize all channels for impact and to create more personalized experiences to drive change. This role is critical to this journey and is a key leadership role within new Omnichannel pods that are being established. You have a great opportunity to lead and drive change that will have meaningful impact on patients’ lives.

The Director of Omnichannel Analytics will work on the Vaccines Insights & Analytics team to lead the development and execution of commercial analytics to optimize digital and omnichannel campaigns/tactics, including customer segmentation strategy, appropriate KPIs, etc. This role will influence and drive digital strategy and MCM tactics required for digital marketing, digital optimization, and digital customer experience. As part of the Omnichannel Pod team that brings together Marketing, Sales, and Technology leads, this role will lead and influence decisions for customer segmentation strategy, critical learning agendas aligned with top priorities, appropriate KPIs and measurement plans to understand effectiveness, and pull through of experimentation practices for continuous learning to understand impactful customer experiences.

You will need a strategic, inquisitive mindset and keen business acumen matched with strong leadership and communication skills on top of your strong analytics experience and expertise to be successful in this role. You will be expected to collaborate, communicate, and influence stakeholders in a variety of functions, including business unit leadership (Sales and Marketing), other Commercial Insights (CI) teams (including Forecasting, Advanced Analytics, and Data Strategy), and partners in US Digital and Tech.

Key responsibilities include:

• Create and lead implementation of a digital analytics plan and own the experimentation learning agenda aligned to key business questions and priorities. Determine impact and effectiveness through omnichannel messaging and tactics with the intended audience.
  • This will include deliverables such as customer targeting for digital/omnichannel tactics, campaign effectiveness measures including appropriate KPIs, investment guidance through impact measurement and ROI, and optimal future investment recommendations. It would also include analytics or methodologies aligned to pilots, experiments, or hypotheses, including customer segment level deep-dive analytics (behavioral analysis, predictive analytics).
  • Work across the CI BU Team, including Business Analytics, Brand Performance, and Market Research, to align analytics measurement plan to brand KPIs
• Actively participate in the newly formed Omnichannel Pod team to influence, shape, and deliver the omnichannel customer strategy including the measurement plan for faster, better, and impactful decision making. Synthesize data / insights (from market research and voice of customer) and effectiveness measures against our intended audience for omnichannel messaging, share key findings and recommendations, and influence decisions for better customer experience and customer behavior change.
• Effectively collaborate and partner across the CI Business Analytics function, with other BU Omnichannel Analytics Leads, and with the Advanced Analytics CoE, for execution and pull through of next gen analytics for industry leading omnichannel measurement. Ensure best practice standards for experimentation are pulled through and applied. Drive effective, timely, data and insight-driven decision making with key stakeholders within the BU to transform the customer experience through omnichannel tactics and deliver improved business performance.
• Continuously and proactively communicate with key commercial partners in sales and marketing, including BU leadership teams.
• Lead, at times hands-on, the development of algorithms, code, hypotheses, models, and solution frameworks for new & unstructured business problems, driving effective application and value of advanced analytics. Effectively partner with the Advanced Analytics CoE to ensure that capabilities and best practices for usage within the BU are fit for purpose and address critical BU priorities. Seek to automate and industrialize solutions for providing predictive insights and prescriptive actions to various commercial teams (Marketing, Sales, other).
• Coach and mentor team members. Lead and oversee contractors/vendor resources and external partners in the scoping, experimental design, execution, and interpretation of key analysis initiatives. Manage offshore analytics workbenches.
• Continuously identify opportunities to:
  • Bring outside-in thinking: What are other industries and pharma companies doing as a way of best practice understanding and development
  • Increase efficiencies through process and analytics automation, as well as partnering with US Digital and Tech teams ensuring trusted data availability

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences and Operations Research, Statistics, Finance/ Economics or related
• Professional experience in marketing analytics, full-time employment in mid-large organizations, or in leading global management consulting firm, with focus on Marketing and Customer Analytics, ideally in U.S. commercial pharma
• Expertise with digital channels and measurement
• Experience with customer journey, customer experience, and/or voice of customer analytics
• Experience with marketing fundamentals & frameworks that can be applied to solve analytical problems
• Experience with R or Python and SQL
• Experience with accessing databases for appropriate data, manipulating, and integrating data from disparate sources, and effectively evaluating data for appropriate analytics method application
• Experience with statistical modeling and experimental design with A/B testing measurement
• Experience implementing and using analytics, testing, and personalization platforms (e.g., Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Target, Optimizely, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. in Computer Sciences and Operations Research, Statistics, Finance/ Economics, Analytics or related) or MBA with quant emphasis
• Experience in multiple commercial analytics functions with biopharma such as DTC analytics, media analytics, digital campaign analytics, customer segmentation and targeting, ROI measurement, A/B testing, resource allocation and optimization
• Communication and presentation skills as evidenced through impactful presentations
• Mastery of R and Python and working in DataBricks
• Experience working within the Microsoft Azure cloud environment
• Experience with visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, etc.
• Experience leading and driving change in a highly matrixed organization
• Comfort with ambiguity to propose solutions; Agility and flexibility to thrive in times of change
• Experience leading without authority and effectively influencing senior stakeholders
• Methodological hands-on mastery of relevant analytical approaches and models, including segmentations, clustering methods, promotional response, marketing mix, customer propensity, experimentation standards and methods, web and digital analytics, optimization analytics, and customer journey analytics

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