Senior Director, Market Analytics Business Insights
Posted Sep 3, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
This role leads analytics and business insight for a neuroscience business unit and advises commercial executives. Walk me through advising a senior leader on a decision using analysis.
What they are checking: Whether they have actually influenced an executive decision with analysis, showing they can advise senior leaders and not just produce reports.
How do you build an analytics team that leaders come to rather than work around?
What they are checking: Whether they can build a team that leaders trust and seek out, by being reliable, fast and genuinely useful to the business.
What would you do
You'd synthesize and connect insights across functions into an integrated view. How do you reconcile findings that point in different directions?
What they are checking: Whether they can make sense of conflicting findings and give leaders one clear view, rather than handing over separate, contradictory reports.
You'd prioritize the unit's analytical initiatives. How do you decide what not to do when every request has a sponsor?
What they are checking: Whether they can say no to sponsored requests with clear reasoning, keeping the team on the work that matters most to the business.
An executive has already decided and wants analysis to support it. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they keep analysis honest when a senior leader wants support, because analytics loses its value once it only confirms decisions.
You'd work across global pipeline work as well as the business unit. How do you balance a long-horizon pipeline question against this quarter's brand question?
What they are checking: Whether they can balance long-term pipeline work with urgent brand questions, so neither one quietly starves the other.
This is based at Mettawa leading a business unit's analytics teams. What would you want to know about the teams and the portfolio before you took it?
What they are checking: Whether they ask about the teams, talent and portfolio they would inherit, which shows they plan before they commit.
About the work
The posting says you translate brand business problems into clear analytical paths. Take a brand problem you have seen and show me how you would frame it analytically.
What they are checking: Whether they can break a messy brand problem into clear questions, data and methods, which is the skill this role depends on.
What is distinctive about the analytics a neuroscience brand needs compared with another therapeutic area?
What they are checking: Whether they really know neuroscience markets, like long diagnosis journeys and specialist prescribers, rather than applying generic analytics.
How do you drive operational excellence in an analytics function — what actually improves?
What they are checking: Whether they can name concrete improvements, like faster delivery or reusable data assets, rather than talking about excellence in general terms.
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