Associate Director, Reporting and Analytics

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com .

Astellas’ Global Capability Centers – Overview

Astellas’ Global Capability centers (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. ​ Our three GCCs are in India, Poland and Mexico. ​

The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands. ​ ​ Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company ’ s strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.

This position is based in Bengaluru and will require some on-site work.

Purpose and Scope:

The Lead, Reporting and Analytics plays a critical role in providing valuable strategic direction and leadership across the Global Reporting Portfolio. This role will own a key field management reporting platform and its evolution into the future to drive global and regional reporting alignment. This role will deliver a critical connection point between Global Reporting and end delivery into Regional and Affiliate leadership

This position will work collaboratively with partners such as global/regional commercial & Medical brand teams/marketing, global/regional Commercial Insights teams, the Data Strategy team, Omnichannel Strategy & Operations, and Information Systems team and will contribute to data/metrics harmonization and insights sharing.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Lead the Compass reporting portfolio in Europe as the accountable business owner. Maintain existing solutions and proactively grow the reporting footprint to new areas (Eg Market access)
• Plan and lead execution of all field reporting deployments, enhancements, Incidents and Change requests effectively to the organization and global expansion
• Lead the Business in ensuring all interdependencies of Source system changes (DW, VEEVA, BPC) are fully planned and managed across commercial divisions to ensure known impact to the reporting portfolio
• Be an accountable Business owner for the Data warehouse environments evolution and development
• Lead a program of reporting solution enhancements from MVP (Minimum viable product) to full Product via effective release management and CAB’s (Change advisory boards)
• Establish and implement a business governance framework to protect the regional/ Global approaches and requirements to ensure a sustainable solution via business reporting communities
• Drive and own business adoption of the global and regional reporting solutions
• Manage and prioritise Incidents on behalf of the Business to ensure tickets raised are prioritized correctly working closely with IS colleagues
• Work closely with the Global and Commercial Division Commercial Insights leads, Omnichannel Strategy & Operations team, Global Brand Directors, Affiliate Brand Managers and OPEX Leadership to deliver reporting dashboards for performance assessment and opportunities discovery, to support, and to assess emerging business needs/reporting requirements.

• Provide consulting to the key stakeholders in the Reporting requirements gathering phase to ensure objectives are clearly defined and can be measured
• Manage third party providers on as needed basis and ensure deliverables fully meet contractual obligations and are of highest caliber.
Embed an Ethics and Compliance culture and Integrity in Action by proactively addressing non-compliance.

Quantitative Dimensions :

• Quality and timeliness of reporting deliverables, insights generation and strategic support for assigned products/projects based on feedback from key partners and cross-functional colleagues including quality of the collaboration.
• Adoption of global reporting solutions to agreed Benchmarks

• Ability to meet/exceed established key milestones related to major projects.

• Management of projects within approved operating budget.

Organizational Context:

Reports to the Director, Business Analytics & Reporting

This is an individual contributor role at this time

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business-related field
• 8+ years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Experiecned with sales and activity data sets National and Subnational
• Experience In selling models, Incentive cycles & salesforce effectiveness techniques and Measurements
• Ability to understand technical data architecture and data warehouse structures
• Experience with visualization tools like Qlik View/Qlik Sense and/or Tableau
• Experience in KPI and diagnostic metrics development
• Expericend in project management
• Abitilty to develop business requirements into end outcomes
• Bachelor’s degree in business-related field
• 8+ years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Experiecned with sales and activity data sets National and Subnational
• Experience In selling models, Incentive cycles & salesforce effectiveness techniques and Measurements
• Ability to understand technical data architecture and data warehouse structures
• Experience with visualization tools like Qlik View/Qlik Sense and/or Tableau
• Experience in KPI and diagnostic metrics development
• Expericend in project management
• Abitilty to develop business requirements into end outcomes
• Experience in presenting business insights and providing recommendations
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interact with all levels of employees including senior management.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, attention to details, and the ability to multi-task.
• Excellent organizational, planning and project management skills and ability to effectively manage cross-functional projects of moderate complexity in a multi-cultural context, including vendor management, regulatory & legal compliance, etc.
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic fast-paced environment, with minimal supervision.
• Ability to act with a sense of urgency while being responsive to changing business priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with global partners

• People Leadership experience

• IQVIA Sales data experience

Working Environment

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