Global Insights & Forecasting Leader (CVRM)

at  AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.
Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.

TEAM OVERVIEW

The Global Insights, Analytics & Forecasting team serves as a strategic business partner to the Global Commercial Biopharma Business Unit, providing market insights that drive launch and in-line brand performance, global strategy and key commercial investment decisions.
Together we strive to uncover deep customer insights to drive improved decision-making and business impact. We are looking for leaders who have the passion to drive business results and bring innovation to what we do for greater impact.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred (Master’s, MBA, or PhD)
• Proven experience leading qualitative and quantitative primary market research
• Strong revenue forecasting experience using epidemiology-based methodologies.
• Familiarity with medical claims (open or closed) or electronic health record databases, IQVIA Rx and sales data, and other syndicated data.
• Proficiency in extracting and interpreting insights from large longitudinal data sources, such as Claims, EMR and other patient level data sets.
• Experience with MS Office products - Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Advanced modelling skills using Visual Basic, Power BI, SQL+ R or Python are desirable.

OUR ROLE

The Global Insights & Forecasting Leader is encouraged to provide leadership and strategic direction to deliver competitive advantages through the application of end-to-end insights, analytics, and forecasts across both the Global markets to support AstraZeneca’s industry-leading AstraZeneca pipeline. Our mission as a team is to accelerate business impact through insights and capability transformation. To achieve this, the team is tasked with delivering excellence in market research, customer and competitor insights, analytics, and forecasting.
This role works closely with Therapy Area Commercial, CI, Finance, Commercial Excellence, Medical, Market Access and Pricing, and other senior business partners throughout the organisation.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as functional subject matter expert in established market and disease areas of interest to the Global Commercial team.
• Summarize and present findings through various communication channels; be able to “tell the story” to senior commercial and clinical partners.
• Construct patient-based forecast models in Excel that leverage credibly bold and ambitious data inputs synthesized from a variety of primary and secondary sources, and benchmarked against internal and external analogs.
• Champion the use of local customer insights in strategic and operational decisions across the business.
• Identify and prioritize enhancements and new analytics capabilities. Can lead the development, deployment, and embedding of such capabilities across the organization.
• Instill and reinforce a culture of continuous improvement, learning, testing, and deployment of new capabilities for the business
• Access and evaluate appropriate information via a variety of internal and external tools and sources.
• Supervise the external environment to stay up to date on leading analytics and forecasting capabilities, both within and outside of pharma, which can be applied within the organization.