Team Lead – Business Analytics

Job title Team Lead – Business Analytics

Hiring Manager Group Lead, 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) Hub 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 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 franchises, fosters innovation and best practices, and creates solutions to bring speed, scale and shareability to our planning processes.

We are looking for a Lead to support our analytics and reporting team. Robust analytics and reporting are priorities for our businesses, so it is essential to have someone who understands and aspires to implement innovative analytics techniques to drive insights generation across the GBUs.

Key Responsibilities

This role will be responsible to create synergies and provide functional and operational direction to multiple processes across the various GBU operations and therapy areas, so that the cost savings are achieved with deliveries optimized through multi-layered teams.

• Act as a strategic thought partner to Business Analytics operations across GBUs

• Lead the US Advanced Analytics team – this involves end to end project & people management as well as stakeholder management.

• Develops and maintain expertise on key trends / developments in the industry

• Provide strategic inputs to the deliverables and ensures delivery as per plan with accuracy

• Identify areas for innovation and implement the same

• Leads teams of business analytics professionals

• Quantitative Strategy Consultant partner with a broad range of internal cross-BU client teams across regions to deliver and advise seamless solutions across Resource Optimization and Performance Analytics to the stakeholders

• Evaluate the effectiveness of various promotional and marketing channels leveraging Market mix modelling. Lead predictive analytics projects across verticals to generate actionable insights.

• Coach and develop team; Mentor the team on day to day as well as exceptional cases/ situations

• Monitor progress of work and provide solution to issues and queries

• Resource and back-up planning for business continuity

• Share best practices and serve as a change agent and facilitator for operational excellence

• Support delivery of projects in terms of resourcing, quality, timeliness, efficiency, and high standards for deliverables made by the teams

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

• Lead and implement operational excellence projects within the team in alignment with overall direction from senior leadership using appropriate process improvement tools

• Ensure creation and development of tools, technology and process in order to constantly improve quality and productivity

• Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders with an end objective of client delight

Technical skills

·       Expert in end-to-end delivery of Marketing Mix Modelling projects, predictive analytics & advanced analytics (in-depth knowledge of data processing pipelines, modelling methodologies, optimization methodologies etc.)

·       Capable of working on multiple projects simultaneously 

·       Hands-on experience of using analytical tools like Python, SQL(Snowflake), advanced Excel (including VBA)

·       Experience with US Specific pharmaceutical

·       Understanding of pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing functions is preferable

Experience 10+ years of relevant work experience, with a solid understanding of principles, standards, and best practices of Pharma Commercial Analytics.

Education Bachelors or Masters degree in areas such as Information Science/Operations/Management/Statistics/Decision Sciences/Engineering/Life Sciences/ Business Analytics or related field.

Soft skills

• Strong leadership skills, learning agility, ability to manage ambiguous environments and to adapt to changing needs of the business

• Good interpersonal and negotiation skills

• Strong presentation skills

• Team player who is curious, dynamic, result oriented

• 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 analytical techniques

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and conflicting priorities

• Highly proficient in Stakeholder Management, Project Management and People Management

Languages Excellent English communication skills – written and spoken

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!