Manager- MRCI

Job title: Market and CompetitorInsightsManager

• Hiring Manager: Global Key Asset Insights & Analytics Hub Lead, Market and Competitor Insights Hub Lead
• Location: Hyderabad
• % Of travel expected: Travel required as per business need, if any
• Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

Strategic context:

As part of GTMC, Insights & Analytics Capabilities delivers best-in-class and transformative insights and innovative tools and methods that actionably fuel Sanofis strategic business decisions, processes and deliverables. In doing so, our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready?

Overview:

At Sanofi, we are leveraging analytics and technology on behalf of patients worldwide. We seek passionate individuals who use data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats. Within our commercial Insights, Analytics, and Data organization, we are transforming to better power decision-making across our end-to-end commercialization process, from business development to late lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities:

Analytics and Insights Generation:

• Execute global market research projects and manage a consistent, timely market research process across global products.
• Finalize questionnaires, develop recruiting lists, aggregate data, interpret results, cross-reference secondary sources, and report findings.
• Deliverables support planning and decision-making across multiple functional areas such as finance, manufacturing, product development, and commercial.

Innovation and Best Practices:

• Drive synergies across the franchise, foster innovation and best practices, and create solutions to bring speed, scale, and shareability to planning processes.
• Implement innovative analytics techniques to drive insights generation across different franchises.

Stakeholder Management:

• Maintain effective relationships with end stakeholders within the allocated GBU and tasks, with an end objective to develop education and communication content as required.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders for project planning, setting up timelines and maintaining budgets.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations to support decision-making.

Project Management:

• Drive and lead project management through various phases, including kick-off, execution, insight generation, and data visualizations.
• Collaborate with research vendors and Sanofi and Regeneron market research leads to develop and share final reports and provide recommendations.
• Monitor MR spend to ensure it remains within budget and establish guidelines based on historical spend by the product lifecycle.

Quality Control and Compliance:

• Ensure high scientific standards for the output produced by the medical writing group.
• Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with all applicable standards.
• Refresh reports on a frequency/cycle basis (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually), along with QC checks for each refresh.

Performance and Reporting:

• Refresh existing reports and identify improvement opportunities in reporting and BI tools.
• Create dashboards to synthesize and visualize key information and enable business decisions.
• Develop deal tracking analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Enhance data access across various sources, develop tools, technology, and processes to improve quality and productivity.

Performance Indicators:

• Adherence to timelines and quality targets.
• Feedback from stakeholders on overall satisfaction and deliverables.
• Achievement of project milestones and adherence to budget.

About you

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in pharmaceutical product market research and commercial analytics.
• In-depth knowledge of common databases like IQVIA, APLD, Citeline, Evaluate, Cortellis, and CRM data systems (e.g., Veeva, Salesforce).
• Demonstrated leadership and management in driving innovation and automation leveraging advanced analytical techniques.

Soft Skills:

• Strong learning agility and ability to manage ambiguous environments.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with strong presentation skills.
• Team player who is curious, dynamic, result-oriented, and can work collaboratively.
• Ability to think strategically and operate effectively in an international matrix environment.

Technical Skills:

• Strong qualitative and quantitative market research, and data analytics capabilities for primary and secondary activities.
• Knowledge of statistical packages (SPSS, Q) and programming languages (SQL, SAS, Python, R, VBA).
• Experience with data visualilzation and analytical platforms (e.g., Databricks, Jupyter Notebook) and tools like Power BI, Qliksense, Tableau, Smartsheet, and Alteryx.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint) and slide creation.
• Project management abilities and an aptitude for problem-solving and strategic thinking.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear and actionable insights.

Education:

• Advanced degree in areas such as Management, Statistics, Decision Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Business Analytics, or related field (e.g., PhD, MBA, Masters).

Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English and strong communication skills – written and spoken.

Why choose us?

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, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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