Her Story
About Shrutee
Shrutee Shauraya is an accomplished healthcare analytics leader and the Associate Director of APEX Market Access and Patient Services at AbbVie. Her 12-year professional journey is a masterclass in determination, technical adaptability, and impactful storytelling through data.
🚀 The Professional Journey
Shrutee’s career began in India in 2013 after earning her bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ramaiah Institute of Technology. She joined Mu Sigma Inc., quickly establishing a strong baseline in decision science, machine learning, and healthcare analytics across multiple global industries. Driven to expand her horizon, she made the bold pivot to move to the United States, earning a master's degree in Business Analytics from Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business.
In 2018, Shrutee joined AbbVie. Recognizing her unique ability to combine advanced analytics with business intelligence, she steadily advanced through five key roles spanning payer insights, U.S. specialty market access, supply chain analytics, and trade analytics, culminating in her promotion to Associate Director in June 2026. Today, she leads the high-stakes analytics and insights that shape trade and channel strategies across major portfolios like immunology and neuroscience, ensuring commercial strategies directly improve patient access and affordability.
🛠️ Technical Agile & Future-Focused
Shrutee is known for her technical agility, utilizing statistical modeling, data visualization, and cloud environments like Microsoft Azure and Dataiku. As artificial intelligence transforms healthcare, she remains at the forefront, actively integrating modern AI agents to solve complex business challenges and accelerate executive decision-making. Her excellence has been consistently validated by peers, earning her dozens of internal excellence awards and multiple elite leadership nominations. Beyond AbbVie, she lends her strategic guidance globally as an Advisory Board Member for a startup incubator.
⚓ Guided by Core Values
What truly defines Shrutee beyond her technical expertise is her commitment to continuous learning and a deeply rooted set of personal values:
- Accountability: She practices radical ownership, remaining fiercely dedicated to the outcomes of her work, her team, her family, and her friends.
- Transparency: She champions an open, clear-conscience approach to data and communication, building unshakeable trust across complex, cross-functional partnerships.
- Acceptance: Anchored in humbleness, she openly embraces the fact that she doesn't know everything. She views every mistake, challenge, and diverse perspective as a vital learning opportunity to foster team growth.
Ultimately, Shrutee’s journey reflects an unwavering willingness to embrace new challenges, resulting in a leader who effectively bridges the gap between sophisticated data science and improved patient experiences.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Shrutee
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to
- My courage to stand again after falling
- My curiosity to learn new and
- Belief of family and friends for my limitless future
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Advocate for your own work and back yourself. If you don’t do it , do not expect others to do it for you
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Be curious to learn constantly, be yourself as there is reason for each of us to belong.
Have courage to be wrong and encourage the mindset. Mistakes are normal. Be path breaker not to disrupt but to change the mindset and challenge status quo
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
- Data is growing exponentially. We need right and standardized data governance across the world to collect, store and share data
- We need coordinated and aligned efforts to track, minimize misinformation or mis utilization of existing data and work with rapid growth of AI and AI platforms
- Transparency in true need, usage and financial implication of using AI and Agents
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Accountability – for my work, to my team, family and friends
Transparency for clear conscience and foster trust
Acceptance: I am human, I do not know everything. Accept learnings, mistakes, challenges and others and yourself
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