Manager, Emerging Insights and Pipeline Analytics

About the Department

The Finance and Operations dept. brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance and Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

As a member of the Strategic Market Intelligence team, the primary purpose of this role will be to become a value-added partner to the Cardiovascular and Emerging Therapies cross functional teams through data driven analytics and insight generation. The role will entail working closely with cross functional teams and multiple levels of management. The position will mainly support Emerging pipeline therapeutic areas with holistic analytics that would support future business strategy, market shaping efforts and pre-launch planning for pipeline assets. The Emerging Insights and Pipeline Analytics Manager will also work close with data strategy partners to in and effort to conduct in-depth analytics, working with various data sets and systems leveraged across CI&A, with the ability to deliver clear, concise and actionable insights Develops evidence-based communications materials including slides, reports and dashboards reflecting clear and concise conclusions and recommendations for key stakeholders. Works in a fast-paced environment.

Relationships

This position will report to the Associate Director, Strategic Market Intelligence. Working relationships with pipeline business unit partners across the organization and close collaboration commercial insights and analytics partners to ensure alignment on relevant business issues and priorities, along with consistency in reporting. External relationships may include secondary data vendors, consultants, and information technology developers.

Essential Functions

• Data Mining / Analytics in support of market insights
  • Conducts hypothesis-driven investigations into detailed physician-level, patient-level and transactional-level data, to gain business insights from various customer perspectives (HCPs, patients, payers) independently or in collaboration with data partners. Work with large datasets to uncover market trends and opportunities. Interpret and contextualize analytical findings, leading to distinct and actionable business implications. May require utilizing tools beyond Excel, such as SQL, Python, R, or specialized data analysis software for in-depth analysis. Ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of data and output
• Systematic Monitoring of Business and Market Trends and Development and Actionable Insights
  • Leads the development and refinement of timely, on-going analysis and reporting to concisely communicate relevant business issues through ad-hoc reporting or periodic market reporting. Identify business opportunities and problems that can be solved using data analysis. Pro-actively streamlining processes and deliverables based on business impact/needs. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to understand their data needs and objectives

• Communicating insights to business partners
  • Translating data insights into actionable recommendations that drive strategic decision making. Effectively communicating insights and analysis to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through the use of visualizational tools . Gathering feedback to further refine and enhance analytical output to best align with business needs

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from accredited institution required.
  • Master’s degree in business analytics, finance, engineering, data science, or related field. MBA, MSc or MPH preferred
• 5 Years of relevant experience in sales analysis, forecasting, finance, pricing, or other related areas
• Experience in pharmaceutical analytics preferred
• Expertise with IMS data and other secondary industry sources is required
• Strong knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools is required (Excel, SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, R, or similar
• Strong attention to detail, quality control and problem-solving using big data
• General coding experience highly preferred
• Experience in handling large data sets and relational databases
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Project Management expeirence
• Innate intellectual curiosity, demonstrated desire to take initiative, and ability to think creatively to solve complex problems
• Outstanding team- and business partner facing communication skills. Strong project management skills

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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