Senior Associate II

Department: Finance GBS

Does your motivation come from challenges and working in a dynamic environment? Do you thrive in a working environment where close collaboration with key stakeholders and strategic alignment is essential? Do you have a can-do attitude with continuous improvement as one of your career objectives? Then we might have the right position for you. Apply now and join a growing team, working in an international environment.

About the Department

Finance Global Business Services (GBS), Bangalore was established in 2007, is currently responsible for supporting Accounting, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Commercial Analytics, Financial Planning & Analytics for Head Quarters at Denmark, Region Europe, North America, International Operations & Global Service Centre Bangalore. Commercial Analytics is part of Finance GBS and was founded in June 2013 with the idea of establishing a team consisting of dedicated analytics professionals to provide the best-in-class analytical services and insights to the global organization. The main purpose of our existence is to provide superior service to our stakeholders consistently and add value to the processes in terms of standardization and efficiency.

The Position

As an Associate Business Analyst the key responsibility includes:

• Design, deliver, and execute projects focused on Commercial Effectiveness. Provide and effectively communicate qualitative and quantitative analytics to support informed decisions.
• Calculate, execute, and analyze incentive compensation (IC) plans, proactively sharing insights and observations to enhance project outcomes. Advise internal stakeholders on optimized IC system configurations, build quality control steps, and ensure optimal process performance to deliver IC reports with stringent quality.
• Maintain process documentation such as SOPs, checklists, and BRDs, establishing and adhering to best practices. Prepare marketing and financial documents for presentation to higher management on Commercial Effectiveness projects. Present business outcomes to stakeholders and ensure superior customer satisfaction by delivering high-quality support.
• Manage incentive processing and reporting according to IC calendars, including data processing, validation, calculation, and reporting. Work closely with stakeholders to gather feedback, identify development opportunities, and ensure smooth delivery of IC dashboards and pre/post-IC analytics.
• Understand business requirements and translate them into IC operations delivery requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs. Utilize strong quantitative and analytical abilities to integrate and analyze Pharma data, including sales, market, cost, and promotional data
• Handle data ingestion, metrics computation and reconciliation, reporting, workflows, target setting, and parameter setting.

Qualifications 

We expect you to hold the below skills and knowledge:

• Bachelor/Master’s/Engineering Degree from a well-recognized institute.
• Good academic track records and grades.
• From 3+ years of relevant experience in Pharma industry and consulting experience is a must.
• Ability to translate business problems into most efficient and effective analysis plan; execute the analysis including data pull, data preparation.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with different stakeholders, primarily with customers, vendors, consultants and project teams.
• Strong strategic and analytical capabilities, with demonstrated experience in analysing complex situations, collecting data, effectively synthesizing the analytics/data to form a complete, cohesive picture. Ability to customize solution on stakeholder requests.
• Proven track record developing and executing various field force commercial effectiveness projects to achieve superior results, demonstrating data-driven thinking, customer orientation, and operational excellence.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with different stakeholders, primarily with customers, vendors, consultants, and project teams. Consulting experience a plus.
• Ability to support project with collaboration, data gathering, keeping the track of milestones etc.
• Should be flexible to work around European Time Zone
• Good to have experience on Incentive Calculation tools (Javelin / Sales IQ etc) and analytical tools like Power BI, Qliksense, tableau, Alteryx etc.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.

Contact

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Deadline

 2nd December 2024.

Disclaimer

It has been brought to our attention that there have recently been instances of fraudulent job offers, purporting to be from Novo Nordisk and/or its affiliate companies. The individuals or organizations sending these false employment offers may pose as a Novo Nordisk recruiter or representative and request personal information, purchasing of equipment or funds to further the recruitment process or offer paid trainings. Be advised that Novo Nordisk does not extend unsolicited employment offers. Furthermore, Novo Nordisk does not charge prospective employees with fees or make requests for funding as a part of the recruitment process.

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.