Forecasting And Analytics Manager

Our Company

Boehringer Ingelheim is working on breakthrough therapies that transform lives, today and for generations to come. As a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, the company creates value through innovation in areas of high unmet medical need. Founded in 1885 and family-owned ever since, Boehringer Ingelheim takes a long-term perspective. More than 52,000 employees serve over 130 markets in the three business areas, Human Pharma, Animal Health, and Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing. The Canadian headquarters of Boehringer Ingelheim was established in 1972 in Montreal, Quebec and is now located in Burlington, Ontario. Boehringer Ingelheim employs approximately 500 people across Canada. Learn more at www.boehringer-ingelheim.ca .

THE POSITION

To be a key strategic business partner to Customer Marketing and the cross functional brand team. To provide specialized brand & market performance analyses, interpretation and the development of actionable recommendations that improve the effectiveness of the planning and execution of commercial strategy. Responsible for modeling and building assumption based forecasting scenarios as well as developing analytics based brand targeting and segmentation recommendations. Acts as a key strategic business partner to the cross functional Marketing team, providing actionable recommendations based on advanced analytics.

Responsibilities

• Manage the local forecasting processes for assigned therapeutic areas and brands. Work closely with Customer Marketing, Customer Insights, Sales and Market Access teams to provide assumption based forecasts for key brands. Build and model assumption based forecasting scenarios for the key forecasting cycles and brand planning and make adjustments as required throughout the year. Monitor the progress of brand forecasting on a monthly/quarterly basis and report progress/accuracy. Work with the Global forecasting team to accommodate any global forecasting requirements or processes.
• Gain a deep understanding of the business and customer and lead the team in solving critical business issues through scoping, hypotheses development, and advanced analytics. Support analysis on campaign/cycle/channel impact assessment and omni-channel mix modeling and provide data driven recommendations on how to optimize campaign outcomes. Responsible for building brand targeting and micro segmentation recommendations for brand planning.
• Foster strong working relationships with key counterparts in Customer Insights to ensure that all relevant information is incorporated and integrated into analyses and the work done in both areas is optimized and aligned
• Uncover/identify new and innovative techniques and methodologies that bring leading edge innovation to BI business analytics and the resulting strategy development.
• Serve as the brand team analytics expert, through active participation on assigned brand teams, leading the market/brand understanding for the team through insight based presentations to the team and communication that guide decisions affecting marketing or sales strategy. Provide specialized business performance analysis including statistical assessment of market actions using multiple statistical techniques/approaches such as ROI. Provide specialized analytics to assist in brand strategy decisions such as predictive modeling to identify business opportunity. Provide actionable insights and recommendations to impact strategy and planning of omni-channel activities via optimal utilization of details, samples, and other promotional resources

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields with an emphasis on statistics and business analysis would be an asset
• Demonstrated experience in the following skills would be preferred: strong quantitative analysis background, experience in working with large, complex data systems to aggregate, organize, and prepare data for use in business analysis, experience in extracting, cleaning, preparing and modeling data, and proficiency in hypotheses-driven approaches.
• Proficiency in advanced mathematics/statistics (regressions, optimization, clustering analysis, predictive modeling etc) and data mining
• Must have advanced experience modeling in Excel and communicating insights in PowerPoint
• Demonstrated business/financial acumen and the ability to understand the business issues and connect them to opportunities for analysis and modeling
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering, Science or Business discipline
• Working Knowledge of statistical applications/software (MS SQL, Oracle, SPSS, R, etc) and Adobe Workbench, Cognos Toolset are assets
• Working knowledge of Pharmaceutical industry data sources/business models is strongly preferred

WHY BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM?

With us, you can grow, collaborate, innovate and improve lives.

We offer challenging work in a respectful and friendly global working environment surrounded by a world of innovation driven mindsets and practices. In addition, learning and development for all employees is key, because your growth is our growth.

We also offer a competitive salary, generous amount of paid time off (vacation, personal days, contingency paid time off for Long Term Contract Employees), comprehensive and flexible benefits plan, Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching of RRSPs, and Employee and Family Assistance Plan, employee and leadership development programs, and programs to support overall health and wellness for employees.

At Boehringer Ingelheim we embrace diversity of perspectives and strive for an inclusive environment, which benefits our employees, patients and communities. 

Remote work options (if applicable for this role), will be addressed with candidates who are selected to participate in the interview process.

Want to learn more? Visit www.boehringer-ingelheim.ca

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We thank all applicants for their interest in our company. Please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

BI Canada is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities to support their participation in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.  If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

BI Canada COVID-19 Protocol: BI Canada is strongly committed to providing a safe work environment for employees. We understand the need to enable safe in-person interactions whether at the office, external venues or customer locations. To do this, we need to ensure workplace interactions take place in a low risk environment.

At BI Canada we have introduced a COVID protocol. As of the time of this posting, this protocol requires new and existing employees complete and submit an “Employee Confirmation Statement re: ‘Low Risk’ Status” to Human Resources

For those employees who are fully vaccinated, they can on a voluntary basis provide the company with a copy of their vaccination certificate(s) through the Confirmation Statement.

For those employees who are not vaccinated, OR, have chosen not to share their vaccination status, they will be required to take the necessary steps to prove they have tested negative for COVID (through rapid tests that will be provided by the company) no more than 48 hours before they are in an in-person meeting or interaction. Employees will be required to take the COVID test and complete a form for BI, upload a picture of the test result and submit the form automatically. This form must be completed each time an employee takes the test before an in-person interaction with a customer, colleague, supplier etc.

The successful candidate for this Job Posting will be required to complete the mandatory Employee Confirmation Statement on the first day of employment with the Company.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Applications for this position will be accepted until May 2, 2023 (6pm EST)

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Job

Analytics/Forecasting/Insights

Primary Location

Americas-CA-Ontario-Burlington

Organization

CA-Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Ltd/Ltee

Schedule

Full-time