COMPLETE Associate Director, Analytics – US Rare Diseases - Cambridge

Associate Director, Analytics – US Rare Diseases

DESCRIPTION:

The Associate Director, Analytics - US Rare Diseases (RD) will be responsible for creating, measuring, and tracking the key performance metrics for the RD franchise.  This person will be an integral partner to the business operations and the US commercial teams.  Key components to this role will include developing and monitoring KPIs, highlighting issues, investigating, and interpreting data, and communicating findings to leadership to drive business decisions. In addition, this role will be involved with validating effectiveness of commercial strategies and tactics and providing recommendations around new performance metrics to track. The position will report to Director, Commercial Strategy & Insights – Rare Diseases and will be in Cambridge, MA.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Partner and work closely with Senior Leadership/Functional heads to understand their business reporting and analytics/KPI needs.

• Participate in weekly meetings to review key updates and continue to understand areas of focus, while proactively providing research grounded insights

• Provide daily/weekly reporting of key performance indicators for Rare Diseases

• Generation & management of brand specific dashboards and reporting. Liasoning with Analytics vendors as needed.

• Provide weekly/monthly reporting on overall BU performance and market trends as well as analytics that provide insightful and objective commentary.

• Perform ad-hoc queries for BU leadership across all functions (sales, patient services, etc.); be an internal expert and resource to Business.

• Recommend tools / platforms to improve business productivity and enhance capabilities.

• Define and evaluate needs and solutions in business areas while enhancing services to Rare Diseases team based on customer feedback.

• Understand/define/refine customer segments and develop strategies, based on insight into customer behaviors.

• Ensure pre-launch/launch excellence in preparation of new product launches.

• Partner with market research, forecasting as well as internal ops teams to create comprehensive monthly trends and insights report to address the current state of the business.

• Coordination with data management to ensure insights are based on reliable, high-quality information.

 BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Engineering or related discipline

• Minimum of 7+ years of Pharmaceutical Commercial Analytics/Forecasting or Sales Operations experience is required

• Strong proven team leadership, analytical and communication skills required

• Thorough knowledge of and a high skill level in analytics

• Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

• Possess very strong strategic awareness skill set

• Demonstrated the ability to work in a matrixed environment with many cross-functional partners

• Ability to understand and influence decisions

• Ability to interact and communicate with all levels in the organization

• Promotes a good working relationship with supervisors, co-workers and staff

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Excellent presentation skills

• Self-starter. Proactive in nature, actively participates and self-motivated

• Expertise with data visualization/business intelligence tools (e.g. Qlikview, Tableau)

• Experience with pharmaceutical data sources (e.g., IMS, WK, Syndicated data sources)

• Excellent project management skills with demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects and priorities

PREFFERED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree or MBA preferred

• 2+ years of Consulting Experience

• Experience in Experience in Rare Diseases or Specialty Care

• Superior analytical skills with proficiency in a broad range of data analysis tools (SQL, SAS, Alteryx, Python, R)

• Experience using analytical platforms (e.g. Databricks, Jupyter Notebook, SAS Studio, SQL developers)

• Experience working with CRM data systems like Salesforce, Cognos, Veeva, etc.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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