Associate Director, Market Access Data Science & Analytics

Purpose

The Associate Director, Market Access Data Science & Analytics, part of Bayer’s Commercial Data Solutions team for US Market Access, conducts in-depth analysis of sales, patient engagement, payer and operations data. Collaborating with Insights & Analytics, Market Access, and Patient Services teams, they help guide business decisions that improve both financial results and patient outcomes across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Leverage Market Access data expertise to understand strategic business priorities, develop overarching data strategy to address key business questions.
• Design and implement practical data-driven solutions to facilitate analysis of payer behavior, specialty pharmacy dynamics, and the patient journey.
• Develop quantitative frameworks tailored to Market Access, including models analyzing payer impact, formulary change effects, PA/SP restrictions, co-pay dynamics, and analytics for affordability programs.
• Apply advanced statistical techniques to quantify payer mix, payer behavior shifts, rebate utilization, SP adherence patterns, and patient journey frictions.
• Build optimization algorithms to support contracting strategy, copay programs, distribution models, and affordability programs.
• Enable data-driven decisions by aligning data sources to business needs, key questions, and ensuring their accessibility for analysis and reporting.
• Agregate data and perform analyses from various critical commercial data assets, including sales, syndicated claims, marketing, patient services, and HP-PBM invoices to generate Market Access Insights.
• Develop, standardize, and manage comprehensive business rule documentation from both technical and business perspectives.
• Accountable to drive quality and stability of data for key business KPIs.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree combined with over 10 years of relevant experience is required.
• Extensive experience in US pharma industry, with deep hands-on expertise in market access data and analytics.
• Strong hands-on experience with commercial pharmaceutical data, including SP/SD/sales datasets, syndicated claims, access data such as DRG and MMIT, patient service platforms like Relay Health, BlinkRx, CoverMyMeds, Connective Rx, as well as formulary and related datasets.
• Expertise to developing analytics pipelines (Python/SQL/Snowflake) for ingestion, transformation, modeling, and visualization.
• Developed analytic models for payer behavior shifts, rebate utilization, patient journey frictions, and SP adherence patterns.
• Demonstrated proficiency in designing, implementing, and overseeing data quality frameworks for commercial data assets.
• Strong influencing, networking, and stakeholder management skills within a matrix organization.
• Skilled in written and verbal communication to influence action and achieve project success through collaboration.

Benefits

• Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $115,072.00 - $172,608.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant).
• Other benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

Contact Us

• Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com