The Strategic Data Initiatives Manager is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of a portfolio of high-priority strategic data initiatives across Europe, originating from the 2025 Data Strategy Program. The role focuses on identifying data opportunities, supporting pilot initiatives (PoCs), and contributing to the development of new data-driven services in response to evolving client questions, emerging data sources, and EU regulatory change.
The position requires strong analytical capability and the ability to translate complex data, stakeholder input, and market needs into clear priorities and actionable outcomes that support commercial and strategic objectives.
This is a great opportunity for someone with 3–5 years of experience who is looking to deepen their exposure to healthcare data, analytics, and strategy, while working on innovative and high-impact projects in a fast-evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities – Data Access, Negotiation Support & Implementation
- Support the coordination of data supply negotiations enabling access to data on innovative channels, including public, private, and third-party sources.
- Support the execution governance following agreement, coordinating implementation across countries, functions, and stakeholders.
- Manage risks, dependencies, and execution timelines across negotiation-to-delivery phases.
- Identify and assess relevant data sources (e.g. open data, APIs, public registries, third-party datasets) and define cost-effective, scalable approaches to data access and integration.
- Execute strategic data initiatives identified through the 2025 Data Strategy Program.
- Help translate evolving client questions, regulatory developments, and data access opportunities into prioritized execution plans.
- Contribute to the delivery of defined Quick Win initiatives, including new data services covering market access, net expenditure, treatment guideline, and shortages-related intelligence topics.
- Focus on rapid execution, proof of value, and readiness for pilot-phase commercialization.
- Coordinate delivery across initial pilot countries and support preparation for subsequent scale-up.
- Support the expansion of shortages-related services, building on existing and newly developed capabilities, including the Shortages Transparency Platform (STP).
- Contribute to the development of advanced capabilities such as predictive shortage insights, supply vulnerability assessments, and geographic expansion of shortages monitoring.
- Support definition and prioritization of shortages-related service roadmaps aligned with client needs, regulatory evolution, and data availability.
- Collaborate with data, analytics, and technology teams to translate insights into scalable service enhancements.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses to support initiative prioritization, platform evolution, roadmap definition, and delivery decisions.
- Develop insights to support internal discussions, senior stakeholder engagement, and value demonstration.
- Produce analytical outputs supporting thought leadership, external presentations, and stakeholder discussions, including shortages-related topics.
- Synthesize complex data, regulatory inputs, and stakeholder perspectives into clear, structured narratives that inform execution.
- Translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations through close collaboration with analytics, data science, and technology teams.
- Execute the Private and Rx e-commerce data access roadmap, leveraging best practices from advanced markets.
- Assess scalability, regulatory constraints, and commercial applicability across European countries and beyond.
- Support commercialization of new data assets and services during the pilot phase, including shortages-related offerings.
- Partner with regional and key account teams to enable early revenue realization and pilot proof points.
- Support development of client propositions, analytical narratives, and go-to-market materials.
- Ensure pilot learnings are captured to inform scalable commercial and operating models.
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree a plus.
- 3–5 years of experience (post-university) in healthcare consulting, analytics, or a related field.
- Experience supporting analytical projects or early-stage initiatives (e.g., problem structuring, discovery phases, pilots/PoCs) rather than large-scale program delivery.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with data, generate insights, and translate them into actionable recommendations.
- Ability to work in fast-paced, unstructured environments with multiple stakeholders.
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to contribute to client discussions and internal problem-solving.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to pharmaceutical context (product launch, reimbursement, supply chains).
- Familiarity with European healthcare systems, data environments, or regulatory frameworks.
- Experience in data-drivendecision making, including developing insights or supporting evidence-based decision-making.
- Exposure to data access, data partnerships, or data commercialization topics is a plus.
- Experience working with digital, private, or public data sources.
- Interest in healthcare/life sciences and motivation to build sector expertise.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking.
- Ability to synthesize data and stakeholder input into clear insights.
- Ability to translate analysis into compelling, structured narratives.
- High degree of ownership, accountability, and execution focus.
- Commercial awareness and customer-centric mindset.
- Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, international environment.
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