Senior Data Analyst
Contract: 9 months
Location: Bridgewater, NJ
Schedule: 40 hours, Onsite
Pay: $82/hr - $85.71/hr (DOE)

The Planet Group is seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Data Analyst to support the management, documentation, data lineage tracking and delivery of data-driven initiatives supporting Commercial Effectiveness, Market Access and Marketing teams. The consultant will report to the Associate Director, Commercial Data Enablement, and collaborate closely with IT, business stakeholders, and the change advisory board to ensure commercial KPIs, business requirements, and project deliverables are accurately defined, documented, and implemented.

Senior Data Analyst Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer, marketing or life sciences majors. Masters preferred.
• 10+ years of working experience
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills with ability to own and follow through on initiatives assigned.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate business and IT teams through requirement gathering and UAT execution.
• Strong understanding of commercial data environments, including Specialty Pharmacy (SP), Claims, Specialty Distributor (SD), and HUB data.
• Hands-on experience with linking data sets using (Snowflake) and SQL.
• Familiarity with commercial data concepts (Rx claims, patient journey).
• Proficiency with JIRA and Confluence for project tracking and documentation.
• Experience with BI tools (Qlik, Tableau, Power BI) for KPI visualization and Agentic AI for driving autonomous commercial workflows is preferred.
• Experience in Marketing Analytics and Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) is preferred.
• Exposure to global commercial and medical affairs teams (e.g., US, Europe, Japan) is preferred.
• Understanding of data cataloging, metadata management, or data quality frameworks is preferred.

• Partner with Commercial Effectiveness, Market Access, and IT stakeholders to document business requirements for data and analytics initiatives.
• Facilitate requirement walkthroughs, impact assessments, and coordination across IT, business, and vendor teams.
• Leverage data expertise to depict data lineage for business rules using Snowflake and to brainstorm using data flow charts.
• Maintain and update KPI documentation, ensuring alignment across data sources, definitions, and reporting tools.
• Ensure documentation and requirements are properly stored, version-controlled, and accessible in Confluence.
• Perform quality assurance checks and execute validation of data across Snowflake, SQL Server, and BI environments.
• Perform UAT testing ensuring business requirements are met to serve stakeholder needs and to help deliver patient outcomes.
• Support project lifecycle activities, including requirements review, sign-off, and successful UAT completion.
• Drive consistent processes for change control, release validation, and stakeholder communication