US_ED, Analytics & Insights

BoehringerPRD•Johns Creek, GA

About The Position

The Executive Director, Data, Analytics & Insights is responsible for driving, identifying, delivering and communicating external and internal analytics, insights, measurement and best practices that influence strategy and enable actionable, quality, timely and executable commercial strategies. This position will be responsible for delivering market research, forecasting, analytics insights, data governance, data spend, and data ingestion in support of strategy and advice to inform and influence commercial direction, launch preparation and execution, as well as long-range planning. They will achieve this by effectively leading a team of highly skilled, highly trained individuals; further supplemented with outside resource support, as needed. This position will serve as Global Capability Lead for Analytics Function worldwide. As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Business, Marketing, Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field with a minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressive experience of which at least ten (10) years were leading technical teams or people.
A master’s degree is required.
Experience working in a global environment required.
Demonstrated ability to lead an organization and work in a matrix environment; contracting and negotiation skills; to strategically identify, analyze, and interpret internal and external data and develop innovative solutions; to manage detailed project plans, manage multiple priorities, and communicate clearly (verbally and in writing) to Senior Management; to partner well with others as well as influence multiple audiences.
Demonstrated understanding of business processes, forecasting / financial modeling, IT systems, contract management and administration; and project management.
Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to manage a team of individuals required.
to coordinate large groups.
Solid understanding of database design and structure, including infrastructure design and development of data models.
Extensive background in data mining and analysis.
Demonstrated understanding of business processes, forecasting / financial modeling, contract management and administration; and strong project management skills.
Ability to develop strong relationships and collaboration across multiple departments in a multi-cultural environment.
Highly analytical and expert in one of the following: Market Research, Competitive Intelligence, ROI, Modeling and other analytic support.
Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to manage a team of individuals required.

Nice To Haves

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

Responsibilities

Provide direction and guidance to the forecasting teams (e.g., Finance, Commercial Supply Chain and Marketing) that provides design, development and execution of forecasting models for marketed products in support of short and long term planning for the commercial business.
Set strategic direction to forecasting techniques and analysis that best serve Commercial Business needs.
Provide channel, brand and gross to net forecasts.
Lead forward looking Market Research plans based on key business needs across business segments.
Responsible for providing technical guidance and set standards for methodologies, ensure high quality deliverable, efficiency and applicability of research.
Understand and draw insights on competitive landscape, present analyses and recommendations needed to guide high-level decisions affecting Commercial Business steering.
Lead and provide direction for cross functional scenario analysis and competitive response modeling in the Pet business segment.
Guide leadership by providing insights using advanced analysis across brands relative to marketing and Distributor issues including performance tracking, promotional mix optimization modeling, behavioral segmentation, portfolio optimization and use of varied data sources to optimize promotional and resource allocation for AH business segments.
Provide direction and oversight to drive insights using leading edge ROI/Impact and reporting analyses across all species.
Responsible for data specification that encourages desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of data and information.
Drive new data technologies and synergies between information in order to create better deliverable to the business.
Partner with IT, Sourcing and other key stakeholders to identify and manage key data sets to enable business insights and decisions. This is inclusive of data strategy, governance, stewardship, quality and warehousing.
Lead 'After Action Review' meetings on data impacts and outages across organization inclusive of next steps and prevention/elimination recommendations.
Manage outside spend for data products as well as third party labor across all species and within AH Customer Experience.
Responsible for delivering substantial information to business leaders in the organization that helps them make sound business decisions.
Provide complex customized reports with business insights that provide information of key and dynamic business issues and trends.
Support field force and brand teams with relevant insights for day-to-day activities.
Build, lead and manage a team of high caliber professionals.
Ensures that the team is staffed with qualified, highly motivated talent.
Inspires ownership, accountability, initiative, and engagement within the entire team by regularly communicating BI's vision, business objectives, performance outcomes, and future action steps.
Actively develops people within their organization, and supports learning opportunities and encourages others to own their careers and take full advantage of BI career development offerings.
Drives performance management of all personnel including all disciplinary action to ensure personnel are meeting or exceeding expectations in their roles.
Constantly innovate and drive consistency to ensure that best in class methods /techniques/practices are being applied in each of the functional areas of this COE.