Senior Analyst – Advanced Analytics

Job title: Senior Analyst – Advanced Analytics

• Hiring Manager: Team Lead Commercial Analytics
• Location: Hyderabad
• % of travel expected: Travel required as per business need if any
• Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi Global Hub (SGH) is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions​. SGH strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations​ in Sanofi, Globally.

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 “Senior Analyst – Advanced Analytics”
• 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 across different franchises.
• The core of the role is to be a trusted business partner having deep data mining expertise and a strong advanced analytical skill set.
• The role will partner with the GBU Business Transformation team to support with advanced data analysis, Model building, Promo-Mix modelling, Insights, generating reports, and presenting the insights or output to senior Leadership

• People:
  • Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders within the allocated GBU and tasks with an end objective to develop model 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: 25%

• Performance:
  • Hands on modelling in support of GenMed, Specialty Care, CHC, Pasteur resource allocation work
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of various promotion and marketing programs leveraging secondary data sources
  • Marketing mix model / Promotion response model / ROI analysis
  • Impact of channel dynamics: Field Force/Multi-Channel Modelling (New Commercial Model)
  • Optimizes promotion resource allocation
  • Scenario-Based Simulation
  • Other analyses include customer segmentation, market performance analysis/trend Break detection, pricing analysis, web-analytic tools
  • Develops new methodologies/software solutions
  • Creates, maintains, updates, and evolves Marketing Mix Models Globally
  • Responsible for consistent metrics as inputs and outputs of the models
  • Quantitative Strategy Consultant partner with a broad range of internal cross-BU client teams across regions to deliver and advise seamless solutions across the most specific marketing and sales issues facing a client
  • Engage with lead Global Service Hub lead to formulate and apply state-of-the-art management science approaches (Resource Allocation) to define the need from the clients
  • Integrate output from the Global Analytic CoE to support Regional Strategy issues working with the Global Service Hub lead
  • Subject Matter Expert in Marketing Mix implementation
  • Strong healthcare industry knowledge and experience
  • Ability to assimilate multiple sources of information into actionable insight for business issues
  • Strong working knowledge of relevant data sources and ability to search for new and informative sources.

• 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 made by the medical/ field writing group, including scientific documents and clinical/medical reports
  • Contribute to overall quality enhancement by ensuring high scientific standards for the output produced by the medical/ field writing group; and
  • Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with all applicable standards
  • Refresh report on frequency/cycle basis (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually), along with QC checks for each refresh
  • Use latest tools/technologies/methodologies and partner with internal teams to provide support on all sort of regular and adhoc business analytics activities like build, maintenance, and enhancements of such systems
  • Ability to work cross-functionally, gather requirements, analyse data, and generate insights and reports that can be used by the GBU
  • Work collaboratively with the stakeholder teams to prioritize work and deliver on time-sensitive requests
  • Be able to provide and defend gathered intelligence, methodology, content, and conclusions to the global leadership in a clear, concise format
  • Performance indicators: Feedback from stakeholders on satisfaction with deliverables Adherence to plan/calendar
  • Weightage: 25%

About you

• Experience:
  • 4+ years of experience in a Pharma and/or CPG Data Science/Management Science setting.
  • Heavy Quantitative Analysis - State-of-the-Art Quantitative Skills
  • Economics Background a plus (i.e., Phd preferred)
  • Niche Modeling Consulting Background
  • Experience in Pharma Sales and Marketing Strategy Modeling
  • Advanced Econometric/Statistical modeling skills
  • Experience with SAS programming
  • Proficient in R and/or Python programming
  • Strong work ethic
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Manage project, work with statistical consultants
  • Interact with quantitative business analysts
• Demonstrated leadership and management in driving innovation and automation leveraging advanced statistical and analytical techniques.
• People management experience by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training associates; conflicts or complaints resolving ability from stakeholders and associates.
• Supervising project activities and ensuring it is properly provisioned and staffed.
• 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; 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:
  • Proactive and self-motivated
  • Manage ambiguity
  • Challenge conventional wisdom
  • Broad and deep understanding of Pharma Sales and Marketing
  • In depth knowledge of multiple therapeutic categories
  • Experience in Management Science (Marketing Mix, Promotion Response, Segmentation/Predictive Analytics, & Forecasting) in a pharmaceutical company, consulting
  • Proficient of programming languages (e.g. SQL, SAS, Python, R, VBA)
  • Experience using analytical platforms (e.g. Databricks, Jupyter Notebook, SQL developers, SPSS, SAS, CART/machine learning, Access etc)
  • Proficient with pharmaceutical and commercial data sources and/or CRM data systems (e.g. IQVIA, Symphony, Komodo, Veeva, Salesforce)
  • Experience of using analytical tools like Power BI, Qliksense, Tableau, Smartsheet, and Alteryx etc;
  • 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 and ensuring high quality data output with strong quality assurance
  • 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: Advanced degree in areas such as Finance/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