Global Insights, Analytics, and Forecasting Lead, CVRM Early Assets and Business Development

Posted date Aug. 10, 2026 Contract type Full time Job ID R-257914

Why choose AstraZeneca Spain?

AstraZeneca Spain is a rising force in our global business. With headquarters in Madrid and our global hub in Barcelona, we’ve become an important international centre of excellence in the fight against critical disease. Boasting vibrant universities and business schools, the Barcelona ecosystem is a place where scientists can thrive. We attract a diverse workforce from across the globe, shining a beacon for innovation in a country that’s committed to clinical development.

We invite you to bring your talents to Barcelona where our respiratory medicine R&D and Global Marketing centre offers opportunities in R&D, IT, Commercial and HR. Or join us in Madrid and shape our growth in our BUs (Respiratory, Oncology & CVRM ), and a range of Corporate functions. Additionally, you can find sales roles throughout the country. Together, we’re contributing to a world-leading pipeline of therapeutics and delivering life-changing medicines to patients.

Who do we look for?

Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca Spain, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Alongside technical expertise, colleagues have the resilience, energy and collaborative mindset to change lanes, work with different teams and start projects from scratch.

Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Madrid or Barcelona, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.

Success Profile

Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.

Diverse collaborators

This is a speak-up culture that values collaboration. You’ll proactively bring your unique perspectives, experiences and skills to the table and seek the same from others. With our international team composition and the need for fast-paced collaboration, you’ll always be building new connections with colleagues.

Cutting-edge innovators

When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that embraces digital technology and data to transform the way we work and the work we do. Every day, you’ll help make history, empowered to ignite your creativity and build something enduring.

Resilient trailblazers

Here, the answers aren’t always available. So, you’ll need to bring a fearless, self-starter mindset to navigate uncharted territories. You’ll harness your ceaseless energy to discover and make the necessary connections with colleagues to shape the future and achieve maximum impact.

Agile movers

Seize ownership and excel with autonomy to enjoy the constant rush of ground-breaking discovery. Your ability to anticipate sudden shifts and adapt swiftly will prove critical as you make your mark in an environment that rewards initiative and resilience.

Responsibilities

Job ID R-257914 Date posted 08/10/2026 Location: Barcelona - Spain (3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home)

At AstraZeneca, we're not afraid to do things differently. We're resetting expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're establishing new ways to work, with ground-breaking and cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together.

The BioPharmaceuticals unit (BBU) of AstraZeneca focuses on development and commercialization of AstraZeneca’s Respiratory, Immunology, Cardiovascular, Metabolic, Renal, and Infectious Disease therapeutic areas. Global Insights and Business Excellence (GIBEx) is a strategic function critical for enabling success in the growth of the BBU business. Our ambition is to build an industry-leading organization, empowering our Commercial teams through the generation of compelling evidence and insights, while ensuring they have the tools and skills to deliver impactful launches that change the practice of medicine for the benefit of patients. Within GIBEx, the Insights, Analytics, and Forecasting (IA&F) function supports both the US and Global organizations and is structured by therapy area: Respiratory & Immunology IA&F, and CVRM (Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolic) IA&F.

Team Overview

The Global CVRM IA&F Early Assets and Business Development team serves as a strategic business partner to the CVRM Early Commercial & Strategy group and the R&D Global Product Teams, providing market insights that drive key commercial investment decisions and therapeutic area strategy development.

Together we strive to uncover deep customer insights to drive improved decision-making and business impact. We are looking for leaders who have the passion to drive business results and bring innovation to what we do for greater impact.

Job Description

The CVRM IA&F Early Assets and Business Development Lead is expected to provide leadership and strategic direction to deliver competitive advantages through the application of end-to-end insights, analytics, and forecasts across the Global markets to support AstraZeneca’s industry-leading CVRM pipeline. Our mission as a team is to improve the quality of the company’s investment decisions to support corporate growth targets. To achieve this, the CVRM Early Assets IA&F team is tasked with delivering excellence in market research, customer and competitor insights, data analytics, and forecasting.

In addition to strong analytical and forecasting skills, the CVRM Early Assets and Business Development Lead should have excellent communication skills with a demonstrated track record of effective business partnership as demonstrated by material business impact and influencing. This position may be required to manage contractors and consultants to complete projects, but will have no direct reports. The candidate will also be required to continuously evaluate new quantitative analytics methods, technologies, and datasets.

This role works closely with CVRM Early Commercial & Strategy, Medical, Epidemiology, HEOR, Market Access and Pricing, Clinical R&D, Finance, and other senior business partners throughout the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as commercial subject matter expert in established and emerging disease areas of interest to the CVRM Early Commercial and Strategy team.
• Summarize and present findings through various communication channels; be able to “tell the story” to senior commercial and R&D stakeholders
• Construct credibly bold and ambitious patient-based forecast models in Excel that leverage data and insights synthesized from a variety of primary and secondary sources, and benchmarked against internal and external analogs
• Responsible for commissioning and managing primary research in a way that enables actionable opportunity/strategy recommendations and informs business case generation
• Instill and reinforce a culture of continuous innovation, improvement, learning, testing, and deployment of new capabilities for the business
• Access and evaluate appropriate information using a variety of internal and external tools and data sources
• Monitor the external environment to stay up to date on leading analytics and forecasting capabilities, both within and outside of pharma, which can be applied within the organization
• Utilize electronic medical records and medical claims to estimate market sizes for business development opportunities or internal pipeline assets facing milestone investment decisions
• Champion the use of local customer insights in strategic and operational decisions across the business
• Identify and prioritize enhancements and new analytics capabilities. Can lead the development, deployment, and embedding of such capabilities across the organization.

Required experience:

• 5+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience leading qualitative and quantitative primary market research
• Strong revenue forecasting experience utilizing epidemiology-based methodologies
• Experience with MS Office products - Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Advanced modelling skills using Visual Basic, Power BI, SQL+ R or Python are desirable.
• Ability to manage a diverse range of simultaneous projects, timelines, and priorities with both internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, combined with strong leadership and interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with senior business leaders and cross-functional business partners

Additional Success Factors:

• Strategic and critical thinking with the ability to engage, build and maintain credibility with Commercial Leadership teams.
• Capability in applying and deploying deep technical skills and knowledge (e.g., modelling capabilities, CVRM disease insights, or data expertise) across IA&F functional areas
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Familiarity with medical claims (open or closed) or electronic health record databases, IQVIA Rx and sales data, and other syndicated data.
• Proficiency in extracting and interpreting insights from large longitudinal data sources, such as Claims, EMR and other patient level data sets a plus

Educational requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• An advanced degree is preferred (Master’s, MBA, PharmD, or PhD)
• 5+ years of experience in Pharmaceutical / Biotech / Healthcare analytics or secondary data analysis and forecasting
• Delivery of business cases through FRC for Ph2b/Ph3 IDs
• Creation of business cases for CDID, Ph1, Ph2a
• Opportunity to work with BD on business case development
• Opportunity to gain deeper understanding of early asset development in CVRM

Date Posted

10-ago-2026 Closing Date

30-ago-2026 AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

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Reasons to Join

Thomas Mathisen

There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.

Sales Representative Oslo, Norway There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.

Christine Recchio

Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.

Sales Representative California, United States Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.

Stephanie Ling

There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.

Sales Representative Petaling Jaya, Malaysia There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.

What we offer

We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, inclusivity, balance and sustainability. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.

An award-winning company

We're passionate about being a great place to work, and 84% of our employees would recommend us as an employer. We've been recognised as a Top Employer in Spain, an EFR Family Responsible Business, and we achieved third place in Forbes Spain's Top 50 Best Places to Work list.

Inclusive environment

Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do, and our different views, experiences and strengths enrich our culture. There's no salary gap at AstraZeneca, and the number of female employees has increased by four per cent over the last three years. We've also made all positions fully accessible.

Work-life balance

Your wellbeing means a lot to us, and we're here to support you through all of life's ups and downs. That's why we offer an unpaid leave policy, annual leave, reduced-hours timetables and a host of benefits, including a retirement plan, long service award, and health and travel insurance.

Sustainability initiatives

We're committed to harnessing the power of science to become a more sustainable business. We've reduced our carbon footprint by over 9,000 kg of CO2 over the last two years, and we lead the European GoGreen Project, which aims to introduce environmentally friendly options in our fleet of corporate vehicles.