Senior Manager, Portfolio Analytics

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Summary: This is an individual contributor role responsible for driving commercial assessments for assets of interest, maintaining active list of potential targets for Business Development and portfolio opportunities by consolidating data and insights from multiple sources, and building newer capabilities for efficiency gains. The right candidate should have deep expertise on pharmaceutical forecasting and commercial analytics, hands-on expertise to build excel-based forecasting models from scratch and exposure to SQL/ VBA/Python/ and other coding/ reporting platforms.

Roles and Responsibilities

• •Pharmaceutical forecasting SME will be expected to utilize advanced forecasting techniques, statistical models, and simulation methodologies to provide actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making and optimize business performance across BMS.
  •Enhance & transform existing tools/ frameworks/ forecasts/ analysis through advanced excel/ VBA and coding skills (Python/ SQL)
  •Broader understanding of disease area landscape/ helps in validating our company strategy for portfolio choices
  •Demonstrate strong PoV on asset/ companies of interest
  •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze relevant data, market trends and historical performance
  •Prepare and present forecast reports, dashboards and presentations to communicate findings, insights and recommendations to stakeholders at various levels of the organization to align forecasts with business goals and strategies
  •Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging methodologies and best practice forecasting and simulation in the biopharma industry
  •Provide training, guidance and mentorship to junior analysts and team members as required
  •Provide significant input into and communicate diplomatically regarding performance reviews, promotions and compensation actions for team members
  Strive to create standards for dataset usage through central repositories, cross team collaborations

Experience

• •We welcome a bachelor’s or master’s (MBA preferred; quantitative area)
  •10+ years pharmaceutical commercial analytics or forecasting  experience
  •Experience operating successfully in a complex organizational environment
  •Experience interacting with senior management, understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling their insight/ analytical information requirements
  •Hands-on expertise in pharmaceutical forecasting and commercial analytics, modeling platforms, Advanced Excel & VBA , data manipulation software and visualization tools (e.g. Tableau,, Python, SQL, PowerBI, etc.)
  •Awareness of Pharma datasets (Evaluate Pharma, DRG, Biodmedtracker, IQVIA, Pharmaprojects, Alpha sense) will be a plus

Skills and Competencies

• •Strong verbal/written skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with senior leadership
  •Strong project management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead diverse teams and manage a heavy workload
  •Strong creative problem-solving skills and business acumen, with the ability to identify key findings from disparate data sources to provide recommendations
  •Strong analytical skills with knowledge of qualitative design, data analysis and applied statistics
  •Ability to work in matrix organization

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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