Data and AI Strategy Lead

Data and AI Strategy Lead 

Position Summary 

Come join a growth engine as a leader in our Data & AI Practice! Inizio Advisory & Putnam Associates continue to advance our Commercial Life Sciences Data, Analytics and AI Team and Solutions.  We are looking for an experienced innovator and senior leader to join Data Strategy, Analytics and AI Practice.   

This leadership position will focus on strategizing, designing, and delivering enterprise-grade Data and AI solutions that leverage complex healthcare datasets and AI platforms to drive business transformation.  

This Strategy role will lead a growing matrixed Data Science and AI Team to help clients identify the right healthcare datasets to meet their business strategy or answer key questions. This leader will both strategize and support client initiatives to transform fragmented data silos into AI and Analytics ready data to deliver actionable insights that drive measurable impact across the product lifecycle, from clinical to commercial. Our practice builds trusted data foundations to apply AI algorithms and machine learning for product forecasting, provider segmentation, patient identification, and customer engagement to name a few. 

The Data and AI Strategy Lead will be part of Innovation and Growth, Data/AI Practice and responsible for client business development within the practice area.  They must effectively identify potential client engagements, qualify leads, and drive the business development process.  They will write and submit project proposals, develop and deliver capability presentations, and respond to prospective client needs.  They are responsible for developing intellectual thought leadership for the company and for enhancing their practice area within the firm.  They are also responsible for building and enhancing existing client relationships and for overseeing client project teams as well as collaborating with other practice areas (commercial, medical affairs, pricing and access, Portfolio/BD&L, transformation and insights).  

With data strategies grounded in Putnam’s scientific rigor and therapeutic expertise, we bring clarity to complex data (e.g. claims, Rx, genomic, lab, customer engagement) leveraging AI proprietary tools and analytics platforms that empower faster decisions and long-term brand growth.  

Responsibilities and measurements of success include but are not limited to:  

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