BioPharma, Business Analyst

Job Summary

The BioPharma Business Analyst will have the responsibility of supporting Pharma-specific insights within the Biopharma Solutions enterprise. This role will also closely with the BioPharma Commercial team to conduct projects to support the identification of new customers, RFPs, pull information in and out of salesforce, and customer presentations.

This role will develop and maintain a thorough understanding Walgreens pharma trade and services and how Walgreens aligns to the competitive marketplace. The BioPharma Business Analyst will be responsible to analyze internal financial information, market data, and other sources of information to further develop cost and opportunity benefit analysis for recommended solutions and capabilities for Pharma accounts. This role works close closely with the Account Director and Management team on projects in strategy development, industry trends, competitive analysis, and company positioning.

This position will define and create ongoing updates and scorecards that illustrate progress against strategic objectives, top line metrics and other KPI's to demonstrate the success of the BioPharma Solutions enterprise.

Job Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains a comprehensive understanding of Walgreens biopharma business processes, services, and industry practices pertaining to acquiring a new retail and specialty products
• Monitor market research and trends, internal strategic priorities, sales pipelines, and solution portfolios to ensure alignment, integrity and quality of proposals for new RFPs.
• Ownership and management of cross-segment processes for business analysis that are established to derive value for the organization and drive growth
• Work with business stakeholders to recommend solution or business case modifications and facilitate cross-segment implementation of these changes
• Perform ad hoc analysis based on pharma requests in the sales cycle and other business needs
• Analyzes corresponding data to effectively recommend changes, enhancements, development of pharma services costs and or return on investment summarized
• Develops and presents cost-benefit analyses of proposed programs and makes specific recommendations tied to the business goals of the BioPharma Solutions enterprise
• Supports in the annual strategical planning process

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.

The actual salary an employee can expect to receive ranges between $63,000 to $121,000, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or High School/GED and at least 3 years of experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions experience in healthcare or biopharma life sciences.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and ability for ingesting and synthesizing broad and complex sets of information into recommendations that are positioned from a biopharma centric perspective
• Experience leading and managing complex projects with successful results and on-time delivery; must be customer service oriented
• Prepares and maintains daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly reporting requests
• Prepares business cases to support new investment requests (IR), strategic and other business decisions
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to work cross functionally to make ongoing improvements to the operation
• Experienced analysis capability with the ability to recognize and translate trends, market dynamics and feedback into potential Walgreens’ opportunities and headwinds.
• Strong computer skills (MS Office, collaboration software) and superior PowerPoint skills required
• Willing to travel up to 5% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)