Associate Manager - Pipeline Analytics

About the Department 

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

As a key member of the Strategic Market Intelligence team within the Enterprise Insights department, this role is designed to support the business through data-driven analytics and insight generation. The position involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams and various management levels to support data driven insight generation. The role also involves conducting in-depth analytics in partnership with data strategy teams, utilizing various data sets and systems within the organization to deliver actionable insights. Additionally, requirements include developing evidence-based communication materials such as slides, reports, and dashboards, providing clear recommendations for business partners. This position requires the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Relationships

This position will report to an Associate Director of Strategic Market Intelligence. Extensive interaction with the Novo Nordisk analytics community data strategy and IT.  Other areas of collaboration include but aren’t limited to Finance, Marketing, Market Research, Market Access Strategy and Global Functions. External relationships include secondary data vendors and information technology developers.

Essential Functions

• Analysis
  • Analytical thinker and creative problem solver, ability to influence others with verbal and written communication
  • Develop presentations with clear storylines, grounded on insights and holistic business concepts and delivers clear conclusions and recommendations founded in rational business sense and own perspective and understanding of findings, stands and defends own position and rational
  • Pioneer new ways to generate analytical insights through a deep understanding of existing data assets
  • Establish effective partnerships by working closely and collaboratively with business partners and associates to ensure holistic, well designed, and integrated insights to provide pragmatic recommendations based on:
    • thorough analysis of internal and external business issues and environmental factors
    • careful assessment of available data and determination of knowledge gaps
    • translating data and information into trends with business
    • taking initiative and follow-through on insights to maximize results and knowledge base
  • Inform and shape the development of business strategy and tactics for key brands and customers, as well as identify and implement best practices for developing highly impactful insights
  • Explore new tools to gain greater efficiencies in deriving analytical insights
  • Utilize existing analytic tools including Python, R, Alteryx, etc. to derive insights from complex data sources
  • Collaborate closely with privacy and compliance to appropriately analyze patient-level data compliantly
  • Gain insights into consumer behavior by building expansive data models incorporating disjointed data sets
  • Democratize analytical developments to the broad Novo Nordisk analytics community
  • Identify gaps in current analytical pathways and recommend enhancements to better inform strategic and tactical decision making
  • Demonstrate competencies across descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analytics
  • Link analytic priorities to organizational strategy to effectively demonstrate business impact in recommendations to key stakeholders
• Collaboration
  • Work seamlessly with cross functional team members
  • Share learnings with all members of analytics community
  • Develop close and impactful relationships with data governance, patient privacy, and compliance departments
  • Effectively work with Data Strategy and IT to ensure data and technical resources are available for data exploration
  • Develop productive working relationships with cross functional analytics teams

• Communication
  • Develop impactful story lines to drive business decision making

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor 's degree in Math, Science, Statistics, Computer Science or Engineering required; a master’s degree is highly preferred
• A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in analytics required; master’s degree may satisfy years of experience requirements
• Experience with statistical programming language (SQL, Python, R) required
• Experience with BI tools is required (Tableau, Qlik, Power BI preferred)
• Experience with IQVIA, Komodo, or Symphony and other secondary industry sources is required
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required, along with an innate curiosity

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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