About the Department

　　At Novo Nordisk, our Finance and Operations team is the engine that elevates holistic commercialization of our products. The Finance and Operations team works closely with the business 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. We regulate accounting, uphold workplace safety, manage our supply chain and sampling, support technology, provide commercial operations, insights & analytics, maintain our facilities and assure 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 the opportunity for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to realize your potential?

　　The Position

　　The Senior Manager, Commercial Insights & Analytics, provides insights and analytics expertise, primarily through the analysis of complex data, to help guide Novo Nordisk on portfolio, franchise, and brand strategy development and execution. This individual primary role will be in support of a new therapeutic area for Novo Nordisk (MASH, Metabolic-dysfunction associated steatohepatitis) though part of a team that provides analytical support to a portfolio of products across other therapeutic classes such as Diabetes and Obesity/Weight Management. The Sr Manager is responsible for providing holistic, insight-driven consultation and evidence-based strategic and tactical guidance to all levels of marketing. In addition to Marketing, partners with other Commercial Insights & Analytics (CI&A) and broader Finance & Operations (F&O) functions to ensure proper alignment and impact on NNI business.

　　Relationships

　　Reports to a Director of Semaglutide Anaytics in CI&A and will act on behalf of this role in certain situations. Has indirect management responsibility, in the form of coaching and mentoring, for developing members of the team responsible for data and analytics. Also has frequent interaction with NN India team (Global Business Services, GBS) insights & analytics colleagues. In addition to internal relationships mentioned above, external relationships include interactions with professional services, secondary data vendors and consultants.

　　Essential Functions:

　　COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION:

　　Development and execution of content with clear storylines, grounded on holistic business concepts and communicates key conclusions and business recommendations/implications (what/so what and now what) to business partners and peers through formal and informal channels

　　Analytical thinker and creative problem solver, ability to influence others with verbal and written communication

　　Crafts clear narrative, uses it to develop own perspective and recommendations, even if others may disagree, and takes a stand and is able to effectively push back

　　DATA & PROCESS MANAGEMENT:

　　Contributes to hypothesis driven investigations into detailed channel dynamics, prescriber, patient and transactional data.

　　Maintains and develops (in close collaboration with internal IT) databases and analytic applications in environments such as Tableau, Excel, and/or other proprietary environments.

　　Leverages internal data systems and tools to efficiently maintain data and reporting processes to minimize manual data updates.

　　Supports and develops analyses for team and business partners and other business groups (e.g. identification of key performance indicators/leading indicators, ad-hoc customer segment-level reports and trend reports for internal teams).

　　MARKET RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP:

　　Contributes to qualitative and quantitative marketing research projects through collaborating with data trends (i.e. prescriber, patient, payer data) to inform targeting and recruitment

　　IN-DEPTH DATA ANALYTICS IN SUPPORT OF CUSTOMER INSIGHTS:

　　Conduct in-depth longitudinal patient analytics to understand business drivers and solve for tactical and strategic brand challenges/opportunities utilizing prescription, diagnostic, lab data assets

　　Supports development of distinct, actionable business recommendations and implications. Support insights and analytics team with the development and design of key lines of investigation via custom analysis and assessments utilizing relevant and appropriate data sources and business resource

　　Supports the development of recommendations via presentations with clear storylines to communicate key conclusions and actionable recommendations through formal and informal channels

　　Supports the refinement of timely, on-going analysis and reporting to concisely communicate relevant business issues

　　Works with Commercial Insights & Analytics and Marketing leaders in the development, maintenance and update of national-level business and market tracking analyses

　　Proactively streamlines and documents processes supporting the generation of business insights and tracking reports.

　　LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT:

　　Ensure alignment of initiatives to company’s overall vision aligned to the business strategic focus areas and departments goals

　　Advocate and be a champion of our team, business partners and customers, demonstrate inherent interest in people, intense curiosity to decipher and understand data, human behavior and desire to drive insights into action

　　Works well under pressure, with initiative to take on unfamiliar tasks

　　Physical Requirements

　　10-20% overnight travel required.

　　Qualifications

　　Bachelor's degree required. Focus in Business, Math, Science, or Engineering preferred. MBA or advanced degree preferred.

　　At least eight (8) years of relevant work experience.

　　Strong analytical, quantitative, and qualitative analysis skills required.

　　Knowledge and understanding of national and subnational IQVIA datasets and/or other secondary industry sources highly preferred

　　Experience with/working knowledge of multiple business analysis software platforms (e.g. Tableau, Qlik, SAS, R, Python) strongly preferred

　　Experience in mathematical modeling for prediction, clustering and classification

　　Strong Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Access) skills.

　　Strong knowledge of/familiarity with IQVIA LAAD; prior experience with EMR data preferred

　　Creative problem solving; ability to organize/manipulate data and see big picture from scattered pieces of information

　　Strong writing, presentation, project management skills required.

　　Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects with conflicting deadlines

　　Positive and eagerness to learn, collaborate and partner with internal business colleagues

　　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.

　　If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.