Senior Director Insights & Analytics, Asundexian

Bayer•Hanover Township, NJ

12h•Onsite

About The Position

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice. Senior Director Insights & Analytics, Asundexian The US Asundexian Business Analytics & Insights Lead drives high quality decisions critical to the US business through insight generation, activation and business analyses. This leader is responsible for providing strategic thought leadership and serving as the trusted advisor to the Asundexian Product Squad by ensuring research and analyses are aligned and relevant to the Product’s strategic priorities. This leader is also responsible for leading a cross-functional team with skilled roles that may include integrated analytics, market research, forecasting, digital and field analytics. They will develop strong insight and analytic competencies and drive the Business Analytics & Insights vision to further advance our capabilities and create competitive advantage for US Pharma. Key business analyses should also contribute to business topline and profitability. This is a Whippany, NJ site based opening.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree is required
Relevant experience in pharma / healthcare commercial market intelligence (primary research, secondary research, third party data analytics, vendor management, etc.)
Strong knowledge of the US Healthcare environment across multiple segments and brands pertaining to Bayer’s global business
Record of professional success, demonstrated through above average performance reviews, promotions, and relevant "extracurricular" activities/ engagements
Strong analysis and synthesis skills, including experience in facilitating insight generation
Thought leadership as expressed and displayed on leading industry panels, speaker engagements and/ or widely recognized publications
Comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of, and experience with relevant pharmaceutical data sources including sales data sources such as Iqvia, Komodo, Symphony, laptop/iPad detailing, Specialty Pharmacy data, formulary
Strong verbal and written communication skills, as demonstrable in oral management presentations, succinct PowerPoint stories and layout, as well as structured syntheses and recommendations
Effective project management skills, as demonstrated by on-time, onbudget project delivery
Demonstrated leadership skills, including team leadership, thought leadership, and leadership awareness

Nice To Haves

Post-graduate degree (Master’s/Ph.D.) in Health-Economics, Statistics, Management Science, Business, Marketing, or related field preferred
8+ years of overall work experience.

Responsibilities

Own insights generations and key Market Intelligence deliverables for the Business:
Generate insights through synthesis of multiple sources to drive Product growth
Be accountable for all major deliverables e.g. pilot effectiveness, situation analyses, forecasting, analytics and reporting
Identify, recommend and lead appropriate market research studies and analyses to support brand and channels
Ensure success and completeness of commercial analytics projects • Partner with Pharma leadership to help identify KPIs and set goals
Provide relevant insights and support Data team in data strategy definition.
Be a primary point of contact and key advisor to the business
Ensure effective cross-functional communication and alignment on commercial analytics and insights
Partner with Finance to help generate forecast by proving insights and model assumptions (as relevant)
Represent Business analytics & insights team at Product leadership forums and bring Voice of Customer perspective
Curate Product Squad relationship and receive & distribute brand requests within Business analytics & insights
Provide relevant insights and support brand strategies development (e.g.: brand plan, forecasts)
Drive Product innovations by using analytics to uncover business opportunities.
Partner with global stakeholders:
Serve as a liaison between local brand and global business analytics & insights
Ensure global strategy/ initiative adaption to local market and implementation by providing inputs and ensuring alignment with LMR.
Develop talent and competencies and manage the US Product business analytics & insights team:
Manage and develop talent in US Product Business analytics & insights team -Identify gaps in skill sets and competencies, provide training and ensure necessary resources/staffing of the organization
Lead performance evaluations and development plan discussions; identify training plans for the group
Drive and direct US Business analytics & insights vision, strategy and team capability development
Develop integrated US brand market research plan and align with global to ensure there are no redundancies
In partnership with Product Squad head, develop and manage annual budget
Develop and implement strategies for use of key agencies, vendors and contractors to support portfolio expansion
Team Lead for portfolio Business analytics & insights projects responsible for collaborating with cross-functional team to deliver unified solutions
Cross functional Business analytics & insights representative in initiatives that spread across Products
Lead and track zero based market research budgets