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About the role:
The Global Analytics & Insights mission is to Disease Areas through the provision of excellent market, patient, customer and competitor understanding. This role will focus on the preparation for commercial launch phase, and involves improving the quality of the decisions taken on our assets and across our delivery of forecasting and analytics activities, as well as primary market research.
You'll become a core member of a team of high performing tumour experts (e.g. lung cancer) and functional experts (qual, quant, advanced analytics, forecasting), and will be trained and mentored to develop this expertise yourself. You may lean more towards quantitative activities, and but will also be interested in digging into the market and customer dynamics that drive the numbers.
You'll be part of a team that embraces the use of advanced analytics to uncover deep and rich learnings, and that also embraces the use of psychological tools to unlock the deeper drivers of human behaviour. And you'll be working on new indications for some of AstraZeneca's leading oncology drugs.
Main Responsibilities:
Insights: develop deep customer understanding, to support commercial strategy development. Includes developing insights plans, identifying insights gaps, leading qual & quant market research, leading synthesis sessions, and developing slides to capture the storyline in a simple and clear way – as part of core team with GA&I Central Hub members.
Forecasting: deliver robust valuations for your brand or indications. Includes using secondary data to identify analogues and to build market landscapes, analysing data from many sources to support assumptions (such as epidemiology, duration of treatment), developing simple slides to communicate data, and working with forecasting agency to make updates to models – as part of core team with GA&I Central Hub members
Essential Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or above in social sciences, psychology, or qualitative / quantitative / psychological research methods
2+ years of forecasting & analytics experience in pharma industry or consulting sphere
Curious mind, and ability to connect dots and synthesise insights
Experience in advanced forecasting, quantitative primary research, primary and secondary data analysis
Strong proficiency in Excel, excellent numerical and analytical skills
Pharma experience
Desirable Requirements:
Experience with a strategic consultancy
Experience working in brand strategy or commercial launch setting
Master's degree in one of fields named above
RWE analysis experience (e.g. claim data analysis, ATU analysis); Oncology experience
Expertise in statistical analysis tools, and data visualization
Oncology experience
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Date Posted 29-Apr-2024
Closing Date 09-May-2024
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