Job Title: Manager, Advanced Analytics Dermatology, Respiratory and Gastroenterology
Location: Cambridge, MA
About the Job
We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.
Strategic Context:
Currently, Sanofi has the most robust pipeline and forthcoming product launches in the company's history. As the next phase of our Play-To-Win strategy, Sanofi must appropriately support this pipeline to materialize our vision of delivering scientific miracles to patients worldwide. Thus, modernizing the Sanofi operational structure is also required. In line with this, project DRIVE is shepherding change throughout the organization and created the development of the Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team within the company.
The new GTMC organization is charged with delivering best-in-class capabilities to bring speed and increased value to commercial operations. It will refine priorities across products, markets, and the pipeline through dynamic resources allocation and efficiencies. Silos that existed between business units as well as duplicative and overlapping resources will be replaced with standardized processes and tools. Operating with a One Sanofi mindset and entrepreneurial spirit, GTMC will accelerate and improve key capabilities to do more with less and facilitate the best-informed strategic decision making across the organization.
The GTMC organization aims to:
Centralize Go-to-Market operational tasks across GBUs
Standardize best in class capabilities, strengthen global support, and implement a better vertical reporting structure within GTMC from local to global
Define ways of working, bringing clarity on the interactions across GBUs, Digital, and Commercial executional support teams from Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency
The Manager, Advanced Analytics - Dermatology, Respiratory, and Gastroenterology will be responsible for predictive analytics, including use of AI/ML models, to assess and improve promotional effectiveness. This individual will be an integral partner to the Sanofi portfolio brand and commercial teams, helping to answer the "why" questions via drivers analyses to augment the "what" questions on brand performance.
This position will report to the Director, Advanced Analytics - Dermatology, Respiratory, and Gastroenterology and will be based in Cambridge, MA OR Bridgewater, NJ.
Main Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities include, but not limited to
Partner and work closely with Brand and Functional heads to understand their business priorities and questions
Clean, aggregate, and organize data from disparate sources and transfer it to data lakes
Apply data science techniques, such as machine learning, statistical modeling, and artificial intelligence to generate predictive insights - tactical and strategic insights to improve marketing effectiveness
Implement data modeling processes to create algorithms and predictive models and perform custom analysis enabling micro segmentation
Coordinate with data management to ensure insights are based on reliable, high quality information
Create dashboards to synthesize information and enable business decisions
Help Brand and Media teams translate budget optimization outputs into concrete action plans and recommendations (e.g., identifying root causes of Marketing ineffectiveness and associated levers of improvement)
Partner with Omnichannel and Brand Analytics leads to validate that Salesforce execution, Marketing and Media data are accurately input into MMM model
Collaborate with team of Advanced Analytics Analysts in the offshore hub, helping onboard them as we build out capabilities and partnering with them on projects.
About You
Education Requirements
BA/ BS degree and a scientific degree (either MS/ PhD) with a concentration in quantitative fields or advanced certification in modern data science/machine learning is required.
Skills and Competencies
Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a significant Data / Analytics role; relevant coursework for advanced degree in quantitative fields may be considered. High proficiency in Marketing Mix fundamentals and modelling techniques, specifically in Bayesian Marketing mix modeling is preferred.
Advanced analytical skills with programming language proficiency (e.g. SQL, SAS, Python, R, VBA)
Experience using analytical and code development platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Jupyter Notebook, SAS Studio, SQL developers, GitHub)
Familiarity with data visualization and business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
Strong strategic awareness and business acumen
Strong proven leadership, communication, and presentation skills
Demonstrated ability to work in a matrixed environment with many cross-functional partners
Self-starter, proactive in nature, and actively participates
Ability to understand and influence decisions
Relevant therapeutic area experience in pharmaceutical analytics preferred
Knowledge of segmentation, marketing mix, and adoption driver analyses preferred
Experience with pharmaceutical data sources (e.g. IQVIA, Symphony, Komodo) preferred
Soft Skills
Effectively influence in a highly matrixed international environment, with ability to work with individuals across multiple time zones.
Effectively and confidently communicate to various audiences, including senior leadership
Synthesize complex ideas to simple
Develop brand implications from CI findings, not just a summary of the data and developments
Possess strong learning agility and high degree of curiosity with a focus on detail, accuracy and problem solving
Possess strong work ethic and is personally motivated
Ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment and flex and pivot as the business requires
Why Choose Us?
Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.
Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
