Associate Director, Business Analytics

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Associate Director of Business Analytics, are to:

• Serve as proactive, consultative business partner who interfaces with key stakeholders (brand leadership and sales leadership) and anticipates data analytics needs;  
• Proactively identify business opportunities and insights through secondary data mining; collaborate with the brand Ecosystem team to develop and implement secondary data analyses to drive brand growth and field execution;  
  • Prioritize and flex as business priorities evolve in a fast paced environment; act with a sense of urgency;  
  • Perform adherence, compliance, days of therapy analyses and other longitudinal Patient Journey analytics;  
  • Perform field focused subnational analyses (both pre planned and ad hoc);  
  • Develop and publish KPIs & metrics to track brand strategy, tactics, and market performance;  
  • Develop new reports as necessary; collaborate with the Data team to standardize and operationalize new reports;
  • Collaborate with the Data team on Data acquisition strategy and Data stewardship. Own business rules for brand centric and field centric analyses;  
  • Support opportunity assessments, situation analyses, trend identification, market sizing, and competitive landscape research.
• The primary location for this role is Whippany, NJ.  Relocation assistance will be offered for this role.
• Visa sponsorship may be offered for this role. 

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree;
• Relevant work experience, including US based experience in Healthcare Analytics or similar;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, as demonstrable in oral management presentations, succinct PowerPoint stories and layout, as well as structured syntheses and recommendations;
• Expert level competency in Excel;
• Some experience programming in SAS and SQL; 
• Self-starter, flexible and adaptable to changing business priorities, collaborative and collegial;  
• Strong analytical & quantitative skills with the ability to independently conduct data mining and to translate analysis to actionable insights and recommendations;  
• Experienced in identifying and retrieving appropriate datasets and analyzing secondary data sources (e.g. Symphony, Optum, Specialty Pharmacy data, etc.);
• Expert in handling and analyzing various healthcare data types (e.g., patient longitudinal, claims data, distribution, sales, demand, units and promotion);
• Record of professional success, demonstrated through above average performance reviews, promotions, and relevant "extracurricular" activities/engagements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of relevant full time work experience, including 5 years of recent experience in US Healthcare Analytics;
• Understanding of specialty pharmacies data;
• Programming/Coding proficiency strongly preferred (e.g. SAS, SQL, etc.);
• Understanding of statistical tools and/or data science experience;
• Rare disease and/or cardiovascular disease data experience.

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