The Sr. Manager, Commercial Analytics, US Oncology drives commercial analytics for key brands and tumors within the US Oncology portfolio. As a valued partner to the business, you will collaborate with marketing & sales partners to identify key business questions and address with innovative, analytical approaches to improve the lives of patients and enhance commercial effectiveness. 

Working collaboratively with Insights, Advanced Analytics, Forecasting, Finance, Market Access and Data Management, you will lead the design and delivery of outstanding analysis and synthesis of data to derive critical insights into brand performance & underlying drivers to advise commercial strategic decision-making. With your experience leading large-scale datasets and conducting sophisticated quantitative data analysis, you will drive the collection, interpretation and synthesis of a variety of healthcare and performance data by using pioneering analytical tools and resources to deliver actionable recommendations in support of marketing and customer-facing teams to drive business growth. 

With your project management experience and leadership demeanor, you will efficiently triage execution of key projects to analytics resources to ensure impactful delivery of business results, optimizing execution across key vendor partners and elevating team members’ output. 

Your eye for business and curiosity will allow you to develop a deep knowledge of brands, customers and market environment to be a proactive, strategic partner. In addition, your ability to fluidly connect the dots between strategy and technical analysis enables you to synthesize business implications. Your experience in communicating to collaborators will allow you to deliver compelling, succinct storytelling and impactful data visualization to influence senior leadership with confidence. 

This highly consultative role reports to the Senior Director, Commercial Analytics and Forecasting. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

Lead objective quantitative analysis and synthesis of key insights across different data sources to deliver actionable recommendations in support of critical business workstreams 

Serve as an expert resource on the scope, interpretation, and nuances of internal secondary data, particularly medical and pharmacy claims, with the ability to retrieve, organize and analyze large datasets as needed 

Create insightful reports and compelling presentations that clearly and succinctly highlight the actionable insights combined with business implications/strategic & tactical options 

Identify business needs proactively through observed data trends and build research/analysis with foresight as a trusted business partner 

Collaborate cross functionally with customer facing teams, internal insight colleagues, data management, and finance to prioritize projects and systematically address business questions 

Develop analytics plans that focus resources and drive business growth in consultation with key business partners 

Be responsible for and optimize outsourced vendor partners and consultants to deliver executional excellence 

Performance/Metric development, tracking, and cross-brand best practice sharing, including identifying & driving reporting efficiencies and automations to ensure team members can invest time in addressing high-value business questions 

Provide methodological support and guidance across various workstreams as needed, building the skills of teammates and nurturing a culture of continuous improvement 

Role Requirements: 

Bachelor’s degree 

Proven experience in insights, commercial analytics or data science roles 

Ability to clean, wrangle, and transform large, complex data sources, using fit-for-purpose data analysis techniques to generate robust insights 

Strong analytics capability, critical thinking and discernment to understand and interpret ambiguous information from multiple sources, stitching together findings into a clear narrative for business users 

Good presentation skills with the ability to explain concepts or plans in a simple concise manner 

Ability to lead without authority 

Demonstrated ability to build trust with customers and impactfully collaborate across groups of a diverse set of backgrounds and skills 

Ability to provide informational and analytical support for leadership in a timely and effective manner through seamless integration with other members of Insights and Analytics 

Comfort with ambiguity with the ability to challenge traditional thinking to solve problems 

Strong familiarity with secondary patient-level data sources (IQVIA, Symphony, Flatiron, etc.) 

Strong Microsoft Office skills: Excel, PowerPoint 

Desired Experience: 

Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, Statistics, Engineering, or Economics) 

Pharmaceutical industry, management consulting experience, or equivalent analytic experience at academic settings, ideally in oncology 

Hands-on experience to manipulate secondary patient-level data sources (claims and Electronic health record data) to extract detailed patient and physician information or experience in guiding analytic projects using such data 

Experience in presenting to large teams with senior members 

Familiarity with BI visualization tools (Qlik, MicroStrategy, etc.) 

Project / Program management expertise 
 

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