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  • Posted: Feb 17, 2020
    Deadline: Feb 25, 2020
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    Aspen has a proud heritage dating back more than 160 years and is committed to sustaining life and promoting healthcare through increasing access to its high quality affordable medicines and products. Aspen has a market capitalisation of approximately US$10 billion, is the largest pharmaceutical company listed on the JSE Limited (share code: APN) and rank...
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    Business Analyst

    MAIN DUTIES:

    The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

    • Partner with all business areas to understand and deliver strategic performance insights and key analytics solutions, either through on an ad-hoc, monthly or quarterly basis
    • Support business KPI’s by identifying data needs and delivering value cases to drive business value creation
    • Business lead on the acquisition, management and deployment of information for sales and marketing.
    • Build automated, scalable and thoroughly documented reporting solutions.
    • Ensure the work delivered is accurate, of high quality, and delivered on time.
    • Directs and works with technical teams in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical system or model outcomes
    • Supports cross-functional teams such as SFE, sales, marketing and finance, on day-to-day execution of projects
    • Coordinate cross-divisional operations analyses by providing common methodology, definitions and standard analytic approaches
    • Work closely with IT to provide appropriate data and tools for the analytics team to be successful
    • Nurture and promote the adherence to BI governance standards within the organization
    • Duties include communication, outreach and training to various stakeholders throughout the business, as well as management of outside services (e.g., vendors)
    • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) regarding business analytics and intelligence in terms of methodology and technology
    • Explore and propose new tools, methodology and practices enabling standardisation of procedures and their related reports for the various sales divisions
    • Have a complete and thorough understanding of the scope of the business
    • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with diverse groups including business associates, technical associates and leadership
    • Excellent interpersonal, team-building and communication skills
    • Can understand all aspects of the business and work in partnership with other departments to achieve the company goals.
    • Influence and lead teams based on SME functional skills and abilities
    • Ability to work cohesively with the Information Technology and Business Intelligence departments
    • Process skills that allow optimal liaison with key internal customers across business units
    • Able to communicate positive and negative information when required
    • Superior critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Able to manage self and environment through ambiguous and conflict situations
    • Core deliverables would be:
    • Sales and marketing brand targets
    • Incentive calculations (Quarterly)
    • Data validation on all external and internal data audits / models
    • Liaison with commercial functions on all aspects relating to analysis, reporting, training requirements etc.
    • Monthly market performance reporting
    • Ad-hoc executive and non-executive data analysis and reporting
    • Deep dive analysis to support key strategic projects

    Requirements

    ATTRIBUTES

    • Strategy Planning
    • Curious / Enquiring Mind
    • Information seeking
    • Initiative
    • Logical thinking
    • Accurate and attention to detail
    • Methodical
    • Self-motivated
    • Team Player
    • Imaginative
    • Open-minded and flexible
    • Analytical
    • Applies entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
    • Excellent communicator
    • Tenacity
    • Professional presentation
    • Positive impact
    • Influencing
    • Confidentiality
    • Empathy
    • Customer focused
    • Interpersonal sensitivity
    • Patience and level headed
    • Cultural sensitivity

    SKILLS

    • Ability to understand business strategies, tactics and how data driven insights align
    • Strong analytical, strategic, and creative problem-solving skills
    • Ability to formulate hypotheses, search for patterns, and find the story in the data
    • Demonstrates the ability to turn data driven insights into actionable ways to drive business results
    • Demonstrates sound business sense and acumen
    • Understanding of commercial processes and approaches
    • Able to proactively identify business opportunities and communicate it into the commercial functions
    • Apply principles of logical thinking to solve practical problems
    • Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities
    • Ability to develop and deliver compelling executive-level presentations
    • Quick learner/creative thinker/self-starter
    • Demonstrates a calm head during periods of high pressure and stress
    • Ability to perform optimally under pressure and strict deadlines
    • Process skills that allow optimal liaison with key internal customers across business units
    • Ability to work cohesively with the Information Technology department counterparts.
    • Able to communicate positive and negative information when required.
    • Strong conflict resolution abilities
    • Excellent interpersonal, team-building and communication skills
    • Exceptional stakeholder management that leads others through positive “win-win” influencing
    • Self-motivated, curious, and critical thinker
    • Distinguishes between personal, divisional and Enterprise objectives and responds accordingly
    • Superior written and verbal communication skills and the ability to simplify complex data-driven insights
    • Takes accountability for personal performance and results

    QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

    • Matric
    • Tertiary qualification e.g. Business Science, B. Comm., CIMA
    • 3+ years’ experience in data analytics
    • 3+ years of Pharmaceutical experience (sales and marketing)-preferred
    • Expert skills in
    • Qlikview and other interactive BI dashboard tools
    • Microsoft suite (Excel advanced)
    • Powerpoint
    • Navigation of WWW
    • Proven track record and customer service experience
    • Experience of having operated in a complex matrix organisation

    KNOWLEDGE

    • Have a complete and thorough understanding of the scope of the pharmaceutical market
    • Industry
    • Competitors Corporations
    • Therapeutic areas
    • Brands
    • Market data and data methodologies
    • Systems (BAAN) and data analytics / BI Tools (Qlikview)
    • Analytics and proficiencies in Microsoft
    • Strategy development
    • Commercial operations and processes (Sales, Marketing, Key Accounts) and impact on business
    • Budget process and target setting

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Aspen Pharma Group on aspen.mcidirecthire.com to apply

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