Associate Commercial Insights & Analytics Director

Associate Director, Commercial Insights & Analytics

International Operations, Zurich

The Position

We are looking for a commercially minded, analytically rigorous Associate Director to join the Commercial Insights & Analytics function in International Operations -Strategic Office Corporate Affairs team. This role sits at the intersection of strategic intelligence and senior stakeholder partnership, translating complex market data into clear, decision-ready insights that shape diabetes brand strategy and portfolio priorities across IO markets.

You will act as a trusted insights partner to the IO senior stakeholders, own the IO in-market forecasting project design and execution, and lead the competitive intelligence agenda. The position will be based in Zurich Switzerland.

Responsibilities

Drive IO In-Market Forecasting

• Own end-to-end in-market forecasting for IO, including methodology design, assumptions governance, and delivery of robust market projections.
• Partner with Business Finance and Commercial teams to align forecasts with ABP/RE planning cycles and ensure alignment on key assumptions.
• Continuously improve forecast accuracy through data quality enhancement, model refinement, advanced tool utilization and integration of leading indicators.

Senior Management Insights Partnering

• Serve as the primary insights partner to IO senior leadership, proactively surfacing market intelligence to support strategic decision-making and investment prioritisation.
• Translate complex insights into executive-ready narratives and conduct fact-based business cases, including materials for investor relations, board reviews, and cross-functional planning cycles.

Diabetes Insights Expert

• Act as the dedicated insights partner for the IO diabetes brand team, providing deep analytical support across the portfolio lifecycle, with market data, market research, and commercial analytics.
• Drive situational analysis for diabetes brand strategy — synthesising patient, prescriber, and market dynamics to identify opportunities, risks, and strategic imperatives.

Market Performance KPI Guidance

• Define and govern the IO market performance KPI framework, ensuring consistent measurement and interpretation of market performance across affiliate markets.
• Proactively review and upgrade performance dashboards and reporting cadences for senior leadership, enabling rapid identification of performance trends.
• Provide guidance to affiliates on KPI interpretation, benchmarking, and data standards.

Competitive Intelligence

• Drive the IO competitive intelligence agenda closely collaborating with HQ CI team, with the focus on activating and synthesizing affiliate intelligence

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in business discipline e.g. Economics, Statistics, Business Analytics, etc
• 8+ years of experience in market insights, analytics, or commercial intelligence within the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry
• Strong commercial analytical ability to run business case formulation, forecasting modelling, and synthesise complex, multi-source data into clear executive narratives and strategic recommendations.
• Strong expertise in pharmaceutical market analytics, including IQVIA data, patient-level analytics, primary market research, and forecasting methodologies.
• Deep understanding of the diabetes and GLP-1 competitive landscape.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders
• Highly adaptable with the ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced and evolving operational environment
• Professional level written and spoken English

Desirable:

• Experience with forecasting tools, BI platforms (e.g. Tableau, Power BI), or advanced analytics techniques.

Your new department

As part of International Operations, you will join our largest operational unit. Covering 194 countries and 95% of the world's population, more than 18,000 of us work passionately to serve 35 million patients each day. With a promise to outperform the competition, we continue to be the growth driver for Novo Nordisk, and to improve health at scale across the globe.

Within IO, you will be part of the Commercial Insights & Analytics team – a tight-knit group of five talented colleagues based in Zurich who deliver top-class insights and analytics that inform decision-making at IO leadership level. The pace is high, the stakes are real, and the work you produce will directly shape how we grow our diabetes portfolio across our most strategically important markets.