US Brand Analytics Manager

At AstraZeneca, we're not afraid to do things differently. We're resetting expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, ground-breaking and cutting-edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. 

Global Insights, Analytics & Commercial Excellence (GIACE) is a strategic function, critical for enabling success in the growth of the BBU business. Our ambition is to build an industry-leading organization, empowering our Commercial teams through the generation of compelling evidence and insights, while ensuring they have the tools and skills to deliver impactful launches that change the practice of medicine for the benefit of patients. Within GIACE, the Insights & Analytics function is organized across two teams and supports both the US and Global organizations: Respiratory, Immunology & Vaccines Insights, Analytics & Forecasting and CVRM Insights, Analytics and Forecasting (Cardiovascular, Metabolic, Renal).

Team Overview 

The aim of the Insights, Analytics, and Forecasting teams is to establish industry-leading capabilities across the core areas of analytics, forecasting, reporting, business planning, and insight capabilities. It will leverage, reapply, and advance standard methodologies in capabilities and operations from Global and US more broadly across geographies the insights, analytics, and forecasting teams also strives to scale and deploy these capabilities in a highly efficient manner so that continuous innovation can be pursued.

The Insight, analytics and forecasting teams’ partner to drive portfolio and brand strategy and performance. Together we strive to uncover deep customer insights in order to drive improved decision-making and business impact. We are looking for leaders who have the passion to drive business results and bring innovation to what we do for greater impact.

About the role:

The Brand Analytics Manager is expected to provide leadership and strategic direction that delivers competitive advantage through the application of end to end analysis and insight across both Global and the US market. We are looking for a dynamic leader who can pioneering and embed leading-edge analytic techniques, and generating local market knowledge which lead to superior fact-based decision-making. The role will support the BBU in the identification, development and evaluation of new practices, whether sourced internally or externally. Further, they must be able to identify, develop and lead the implementation of new analytic capabilities across the organization.

As a Brand Analytics Manager, you will be responsible for providing analytical expertise to the Commercial Organization, driving strategic and operational excellence. This is a hands-on analytical role and as a proactive internal consultant to the Early Commercial Strategy team, the Commercial Analytics Manager will support and design commercial solutions, enabling data-driven decisions that are based on rigorous analysis and best available information. A high level of proficiency in syndicated and custom, primary and secondary data, for both predictive and prescriptive analytics is required. The Commercial Analytics Manager will coordinate the procurement of various datasets, design and implement analytical solutions in support of Business Opportunities, Market Opportunity Sizing, HCP & Patient Opportunity Identification, Smart Business Experiments (Test & Learn), Market Simulation & Patient flow modelling among other business critical analyses. This role works closely with Insight, Early Commercial Strategy, Medical, Epidemiology, Medical & Payer Evidence, Market Access, Forecasting, and other Commercial Operations business partners.

In addition to strong analytical skills, the Commercial Analytics Manager should have excellent communication skills with a demonstrated track record of effective business partnership as demonstrated by material business impact and influencing. This position may be required to manage contractors and consultants to complete analytical projects, but will have no direct reports. The candidate will also be required to continuously evaluate new quantitative analysis methods and technologies.

Role & Responsibilities:

Utilize medical claims and laboratory data to estimate market sizes for internal pipeline assets facing milestone investment decisions, or external business development opportunities

Serve as subject matter expert in translating patient journey through analytics to improve operations and decision making to better support early asset decision making

Summarize and present findings through various communication channels; be able to “tell the story” to senior stakeholders

Champion the use of local customer insight in strategic and resourcing decisions across the business

Identify and prioritize enhancements and new analytic capabilities. Can lead the development, deployment, and embedding of such capabilities across the organization.

Instills a culture of continuous improvement, testing, and deployment of new capabilities for the business

Develop innovative analytical practices to create and sustain competitive advantage.

Access appropriate information via a variety of tools and sources

Responsible for recruiting, training, managing, coaching and developing a team of analysts

Capability in applying deeper technical skills and knowledge that is shared across the functional area (, deep knowledge of key data sets, modeling capabilities, etc.)

Demonstrate a high level of understanding of the points of integration of our work and that of our colleagues.

Monitors the external environment to stay up to date on leading analytic capabilities, both within and outside of pharma, which can be applied within the organization

Requirements:

Quantitative Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required in one of the following or related fields: Engineering, Operations Research, Management Science, Economics, Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science or Data Science. An advanced degree is preferred (Master’s, MBA or PhD).

2+ years of experience in Pharmaceutical / Biotech / Healthcare analytics or secondary data analysis. 

2+ years of experience in application of advanced methods and statistical procedures on large and disparate datasets, specifically:

Statistical Analysis & Modelling: Design of Experiments, Time Series, Regression, Applied Econometrics and Bayesian methods.

4+ years of recent experience and proficiency with SQL + (Python or R)

Knowledge of big data technology - Hadoop ecosystem (Cloudera distribution - Impala, Hive, Hbase, Spark, MapReduce etc.,) is a plus.

Familiarity with medical claims (open or closed) databases, and IQVIA Rx and sales data

Working knowledge of data visualization – MicroStrategy, Tableau, PowerBI, Qlikview, D3js or similar tools.

Experience in MS Office products - Excel and PowerPoint skills required.

Proficiency in manipulating and extracting insights from large longitudinal data sources, such as Claims, EMR and other patient level data sets.

Expertise in managing and analyzing a range of large, secondary transactional databases is required.

Occasional travel may be required.

Desirable skills & experience:

Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a significant number of business leaders and cross-functional business partners.

Strong communication and influencing skills with demonstrated ability to develop and effectively present succinct, compelling reviews of independently developed analyses infused with insight and business implications/actions to be considered.

Strategic and critical thinking with the ability to engage, build and maintain credibility with Commercial Leadership Team.

Strong organizational skills and time management; ability to manage diverse range of simultaneous projects.

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AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing .

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