This role is dynamic, fast-paced, highly collaborative, and covers a broad range of strategic topics that are critical to our business. You will join BA colleagues worldwide that are constantly supporting business transformation through their proactive thought leadership, innovative analytical capabilities and their ability to communicate highly complex and dynamic information in new and creative ways
Forecasting Excellence
Provide thought leadership to commercial leadership, providing expert opinions on the impact of market and competitor events as risks and opportunities to their forecasts
Develop forecast models for the valuation of internal pipeline assets, external opportunities and lifecycle programs for the global and regional organizations
Design and develop tools to enable business analytics and commercial colleagues in conducting forecasting analytics
Advise senior commercial leaders and business analytics leads on best forecasting practices and implement best practices to meet business objectives
Manage forecasting vendor partners on leading technical development of forecasting assets
Performance Measures
Ability to effectively partner with various stakeholders on developing comprehensive forecast models that are adaptable and comprehensive in their ability to answer business questions
Client and Business Analytics Partner Feedback
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Advanced (MA, MS, PhD, etc.) degree in a quantitative discipline (computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, engineering, or finance)
5+ years’ experience developing and managing forecasting projects/assessments within the pharmaceutical sector
6-10+ years of strong multi-disciplinary analytics experience, with a preference for experience in the pharmaceutical industry or management consulting
6-10+ years of experience in people management, talent development and senior stakeholder interaction
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Background in consulting and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing strongly preferred
Strong communication skills
Strong team player, ability to maintain strong cross-functional and cross-team ties to influence colleagues outside direct reporting structure.
Technical skills and competencies:
Strong strategic, conceptual and analytical thinker with the ability to lead and build relationships with partners to quickly understand business strategies, identify analytics needs and designs effective solutions.
Proven ability to recognize interactions between insights, identify trends, proactively recognize future business needs and link them to current and future analytics.
Strong quantitative modeling skills (Excel/Excel VBA, SAS and/or R)
Professional Characteristics:
Exceptional communicator: Can understand, translate, and distill the complex, technical findings of the team into commentary that facilitates effective decision making by senior leaders; can readily align interpersonal style with the individual needs of customers
Highly collaborative: Shares responsibility and credit; develops self and others through teamwork; comfortable working in global environment and across time zones
Strong Project Manager: Clearly articulates scope and deliverables of projects; breaks complex initiatives into detailed component parts and sequences actions appropriately; develops action plans and monitors progress independently
Influencer: Clearly articulates expectations, capabilities, and action plans; actively listens with others’ frame of reference in mind; appropriately shares information with team; favorably influences people without direct authority
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
5% travel
Expected to participate in meetings in NY HQ and global time zones as necessary
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