Business Insights Manager and Launch Excellence Lead - SA at AstraZeneca

What you’ll do?

The Business Insights Manager and Launch excellence lead will Plan, direct, and oversee a wide range of analyses, related to the current and future business of the company. Often works with both internal and external stakeholders to perform complex analyses. Proactively interacts with senior commercial leaders to ensure plans are updated. Involved in medium and long-range initiatives including Launch Excellence.

Some areas of focus for this role will include:

• Proactively identify business information needs/issues.
• Provide brand/market evaluation and interpretation and provide business insights and competitive / market intelligence in aiding strategy decisions by using internal and external datasets.
• Leads the Operational Planning Process, providing analytical expertise to the commercial teams, driving strategic and operational excellence.
• Prepares outputs of the process and participates in presentations and recommendations to leadership through data interpretation, visualization, and insight generation to support business-critical decisions.
• Leads the portfolio prioritization process within the brand team and in support of the TA.
• Coordinates launch excellence processes for new products/indications, by collaborating with launch leads and cross-functional squads, ensuring strong governance, pre- and post-launch for best-in-class launches.
• Leads patient flow modelling, patient analytics and forecasting models to support in-market cases / new product launch viability assessments.
• Partner with the commercial team, producing brand volume forecasts, and consulting with the team to manage risks and opportunities for the business, leading to objective and accurate forecasts supported by insight & analytics.
• Develop and maintain market research budgets for the brand team, also determining primary market research design and overseeing project/vendor management when needed.
• If this sounds appealing, please read on to understand the experience and skills we’re looking for…

ESSENTIAL SKILLS and EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Completed Bachelor’s degree (Statistics or Mathematics with Statistics Specialization advantageous)
• 4+ Years Pharmaceutical marketing and/or sales experience essential
• 5+ years' experience in Business Intelligence environment or experience in analytics/data science/insights/strategy will be advantageous
• Thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical business (including commercial and development) as well as product life cycle management.
• Knowledge of strategic planning processes and proficiency in data analysis tools such as Power BI, QlikView and others.
• Thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical business (including commercial and development) as well as product life cycle management
• Business acumen: A good understanding of the business domain, industry trends, and the ability to align data insights with business objectives.
• Communication Skills: Effective communication skills to translate technical findings into understandable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret complex data and provide actionable insights.
• Comfort with ambiguity/uncertainty and ability to lead teams through situations by providing clarity, structure, and focus.
• Knowledge of strategic planning processes and proficiency in data analyis tools such as Power BI, Qlikview and others.
• Excellent strategic thinking & influencing skills, project management skills, strong interpersonal,, organizational relationship building, and consulting skills.
• Cross-functional team or matrix working experience.