Manager - Business Analytics

Job title Manager - Business Analytics

Location Hyderabad

% of travel expected Travel required as per business need

Job type Permanent and Full time

About the job

Go-To-Market Capabilities (GTMC) is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in Hyderabad, India and is set up to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions​. GTMC strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations​ in Sanofi globally.

At our Sanofi we are leveraging analytics and technology, on behalf of patients around the world. We are seeking those who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making that will allow us to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats. Within our Insights & Analytics organization we are transforming to better power decision-making across our end-to-end commercialization process, from business development to late lifecycle management.

Deliverables support planning and decision making across multiple functional areas such as finance, manufacturing, product development and commercial. In addition to ensuring high-quality deliverables, our team drives synergies across the franchise, fosters innovation and best practices, and creates solutions to bring speed, scale and shareability to our planning processes.

We are looking for a Manager to support our reporting team. Robust analytics and reporting is a priority for our businesses, as the product potential has major implications to a wide range of disciplines. It is essential to have someone who understands and aspires to implement innovative analytics techniques to drive our insights generation across GBU.

Main responsibilities:

The overall purpose and main responsibilities are listed below:

• At our Sanofi we are leveraging analytics and technology, on behalf of patients around the world. We are seeking those who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision making that will allow us to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.

• Within our commercial Insights, Analytics, and Data organization we are transforming to better power decision-making across our end-to-end commercialization process, from business development to late lifecycle management.

• Deliverables support planning and decision making across multiple functional areas such as finance, manufacturing, product development and commercial.

• In addition to ensuring high-quality deliverables, our team drives synergies across the franchise, fosters innovation and best practices, and creates solutions to bring speed, scale and shareability to our planning processes. As we endeavour, we are seeking a dynamic talent for the role of “Manager”

• We are looking for a team member to support our analytics team based out of US. Robust analytics is a priority for our businesses, as the product potential has major implications to a wide range of disciplines.

• It is essential to have someone who understands and aspires to implement innovative analytics techniques to drive our insights generation.

• People:

Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders within the allocated GBU and tasks – with an end objective to develop report and analysis as per requirement

Collaborate with global stakeholders for project planning and setting up the timelines and maintaining budget

Performance indicators: Feedback from (end stakeholders) on overall satisfaction, Weightage: 20%

• Performance:

• Ability to translate business question to analytical requirement and work on it to develop reports/decks with minimum supervision.

• Carry out adhoc analysis

• Experience working on patient analytics report and dataset such as LAAD (life cycle claims) and data from Speciality distributor, Speciality Pharma, and patient Hub.

• Develop a deep understanding of internal customers' data and analytical needs focusing on the customer-facing model

• Monitor the external environment to stay up to date on the latest therapeutic area research and clinical development, as well as competitor landscape, and summarize and present findings through various communication channels

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

• Create robust data analysis models taking into consideration key data, insights, trends, and assumptions around patient flow, market dynamics, competitive landscape, payer mix, supply chain inventory fluctuation, etc.

• Evaluate and determine the optimal method(s) for data analysis, considering the context of the data, availability of data, the degree of accuracy required for the process/decision-making, and the timeline available.

• Contribute to evolving our offerings and improving efficiency of repeated /routine processes through standardization/ automation of various offerings, models, and processes.

• Will assist in managing business rules, definition and KPIs for reporting and insight.

• He/she will ensure on time and accurate delivery of all analytics and dashboard requirement by collaborating with relevant stakeholders

• He/she will ensure dashboards and metrics are maintained as per requirements

• Responsible for access management of all trackers (Smartsheet, Excel, other Software) and Dashboard

• Ensuring data consistency across all dashboards and analytics requirements

• Pro-actively identifying analytical requirements

• Building advance tools, automatization and/or improvement processes for analytical and other needs

• Collaborates with Digital to enhance data access across various sources, develop tools and process to constantly improve quality and productivity.

• Performance indicators: Adherence to timeline, quality target

• Weightage: 50%

• Process:

-       Support delivery of projects in terms of resourcing, coordination, quality, timeliness, efficiency, and high technical standards for deliveries

-       Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with all applicable standards

-       Use latest tools/technologies/methodologies and partner with internal teams to continuously improve data quality and availability by building business processes that support global standardization

-       Ability to work cross-functionally, gather requirements, analyse data, and generate insights and reports that can be used by the GBU

-       Performance indicators: Feedback from stakeholders on satisfaction with deliverables

-       Weightage: 20%

• Stakeholder:

-       Work closely with global teams and/ external vendors to ensure the end-to-end effective project delivery of the designated publication/medical education deliverables

-       Work collaboratively with the stakeholder teams to prioritize work and deliver on time-sensitive requests

-       Performance indicators:

-       Feedback from stakeholders on satisfaction with deliverables

-       Weightage: 10%

About you

• Experience: 6+ years relevant work experience with solid understanding of principles, standards, and best practices of Dashboard development, Reporting, Insight Generation and story telling . In-depth knowledge of Rare disease and  common databases like IQVIA, APLD, LAAD, Speciality Pharma and Distributor, Claims data etc. Other highly relevant experiences include: HCP and account valuation, segmentation, field promotional activities KPIs

• Soft skills: Strong learning agility; Ability to manage ambiguous environments

• Soft skills: Strong learning agility; Ability to manage ambiguous environments, and to adapt to changing needs of the business; Good interpersonal and communication skills; strong presentation skills a must; Team player who is curious, dynamic, result oriented and can work collaboratively, proactively; Ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment; Ability to operate effectively in an international matrix environment, with ability to work across time zones; Demonstrated leadership and management in driving innovation and automation leveraging advanced statistical and analytical techniques

• Technical skills:

• Expert in Relational database technologies and concepts
• Strong project management abilities; capable of prioritizing and handling multiple projects simultaneously 
• Experience of developing and managing dashboards and reports
• Excellent planning, design, project management and documentation skills
• Excellent management of customer expectations, listening, and multi-tasking skills.
• Working experience of using analytical tools like PowerBI, SQL, Snowflake, Smartsheet, advanced excel (including VBA), etc
• Experience of developing and managing dashboards
• Excellent planning, design, project management and documentation skills
• Excellent management of customer expectations, listening, and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to take initiative, follow through, and meet deadlines as necessary while maintaining the quality
• Experience with pharmaceutical data sources and CRM data systems (e.g. IQVIA, Symphony, Komodo, Veeva, Salesforce)
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear and actionable pharma insights and perform adhoc analytics
• Expert knowledge of Excel and proficiency in VBA
• Experience of developing and managing dashboards
• Project management abilities; capable of prioritizing and handling multiple projects simultaneously
• An aptitude for problem solving and strategic thinking
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear and actionable insights
• Proven ability to work effectively across all levels of stakeholders and diverse functions
• Solid understanding of pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, supply chain and marketing functions
• Demonstrated leadership and management in driving innovation and automation leveraging advanced statistical and analytical techniques
• Ability to take initiative, follow through, and meet deadlines as necessary while maintaining the quality
• Proficiency of programming languages SQL, SAS mandatory and  Python, R, VB good to have
• Strong experience using analytical platforms (e.g., Databricks, IICS, Snowflake)
• Experience with pharmaceutical data sources and CRM data systems (e.g. IQVIA, Symphony, Claims data, LAAD, Speciality Pharmacy and Distributor data)
• Expert knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and proficiency in VBA
• Experience of developing and managing dashboards and reports
• Project management abilities; capable of prioritizing and handling multiple projects simultaneously
• An aptitude for problem solving and strategic thinking
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear and actionable insights
• Proven ability to work effectively across all levels of stakeholders and diverse functions
• Solid understanding of pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, supply chain and marketing functions
• Demonstrated leadership and management in driving innovation and automation leveraging advanced statistical and analytical techniques

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in areas such as Information Science/Operations/Management/Statistics/Decision Sciences/Engineering/Life Sciences/ Business Analytics or related field (e.g., PhD / MBA / Masters)

• Languages: Excellent knowledge in English and strong communication skills – written and spoken

• Other Requirement: This role is a sole contributor focused on development, delivery and communication of insights

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!