Reference No. R2785037

Position Title: Sr. Manager, Business Analytics and Insights

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Hybrid

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.

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 Sr. Manager, Business Analytics and Insights will be responsible for the reporting and presenting of Sanofi portfolio performance and integrated insights to leadership. As a member of the Insights and Analytics (I&A) team, this individual will be an integral partner to the Sanofi brand teams, providing the collection, interpretation and dissemination of customer insights through data analytics, primary market research, and forecasting. 

This position will report to the Director, Insights and Analytics – Canada and will be based in Toronto, Canada.

Main Responsibilities:

Act as strategic partner to brand team leadership in key activities, such as brand planning, performance reviews, new indication launches, and assessment of new initiatives

Partner with brand team to develop and measure KPIs associated with brand strategy and tactics

Lead development and maintenance of KPI reports for the commercial teams

Support new launches through leadership of behavioral/attitudinal segmentation and targeting

Perform ad-hoc national and sub-national analyses to proactively identify areas of opportunities and threats, leveraging marketing tactic utilization, sales execution, and customer adoption metrics

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and communicate accurate forecasts for strategic planning and budgeting.

Partner with Finance and Market Research to design studies, analyze data, and update forecast scenarios.

Provide monthly performance updates and deliver key analyses to brand leadership, ensuring alignment with global forecast processes.

Conduct ad-hoc meetings and reviews to proactively provide data-driven insights and ensure accurate supply chain planning.

Provide data management oversight, purchasing, and stewardship for relevant datasets within the therapeutic area(s) supported

Partner with Global Market Research and Marketing teams as needed to deliver insights through market research studies

Perform other analytical analyses as needed in support of the larger Sanofi Canadian organization

About You

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

BA / BS with a minimum of 5-years of experience in pharmaceutical Brand / Advanced Analytics, Forecasting, and / or Sales Operations; equivalent combination of education (MS / MA / MBA / PhD) and / or consulting experience may be considered

Proven business acumen, with strong communication & presentation skills

Experience in one of the following: pharmaceutical forecasting, market research, epidemiology, health outcomes or analytics

Well-developed strategic thinking ability, with capacity to synthesize disparate sources of data to provide a coherent narrative and actionable insights

Strong analytical skills, with ability to design, develop, and execute analyses to answer complex business questions

Life sciences analytics experience, with understanding of best practices and ability to access and manipulate large data sets via cloud-based data warehouse / analytics platforms

Experience with programming languages (e.g., SQL, R, Python, etc.) and data science principles

Experience with key pharmaceutical data sources and analytics platforms, including:

ERP systems

Patient Support Platform data

CRM systems (e.g., Veeva, Salesforce, etc.)

Data management & analysis platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, etc.)

Data visualization / business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, etc.)

MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Master's Degree or MBA preferred

Experience in relevant Therapeutic Area

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, comfortable with ambiguity, and with a track record of delivering exceptional results 

Excellent project management and prioritization skills, able to deftly balance multiple projects / priorities 

Ability to work in a matrixed environment with many cross-functional partners to understand and influence key business decisions

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

The opportunity is a REPLACEMENT.

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants.  Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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