Developing innovative therapies is one of the most challenging, most essential and personally rewarding fields in science. This is the most exciting time to be a part of Astellas, a company with a uniquely collaborative and patient-focused culture.

There's something special about working at Astellas. It's reflected in our focus on the people we serve, the way we treat each other and the results we achieve together as a company.

Astellas is announcing a Senior Manager, Business Insights opportunity in Northbrook, IL.

Purpose & Scope of Position:

The Sr. Manager, Business Insights is responsible for conducting analysis and reporting to provide timely, strategic, and actionable, data-driven insights and recommendations to the Marketing, Sales and related internal functions to support achievement of Astella's Urology franchise objectives.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with and leverage advanced analytical expertise to support marketing, sales and other internal partners to prioritize, develop and improve upon key reporting metrics and performance indicators around brand objectives to enable better and more informed business decisions.
• Lead design and manage complex projects applying data science and other advanced analytics techniques, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration to conduct rigorous analyses to uncover new business opportunities and insights and to support the development of actionable strategic and tactical recommendations based on the findings.
• Apply best practices to design, efficiently conduct, strategically align, and communicate ad hoc analyses as needed to support evolving business requirements and to provide timely business insights.
• Identify, standardize, and automate integration of critical reporting metrics and modeling tools and adapt current reports and metrics to support evolving business needs and opportunities.
• Provide consultation and training on analytical outcomes and deliverables to ensure their proper use and effectiveness among users.
• Lead efforts to collaborate with and mobilize other operational stakeholders to define, develop, and maintain business rules and data models in alignment with internal policies and business needs.
• Engage, lead, and manage projects to include resource mobilization, vendor selection and engagement, definition of scope and requirements, and achievement of timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
• Lead and manage external relationships with vendors, consultants and commercial partners to achieve business objectives.
• Provide expert recommendations on various statistical modeling techniques to apply within analytical projects, mentor others on the use and application on those modeling techniques, and continuously work to expand techniques and tools available to the team.
• Lead, manage, and support collaboration with marketing, IC and FFD, and other analytical, reporting, and business functions on initiatives to include field force sizing and alignment, call targeting, customer segmentation, customer valuation, promotional response modeling, promotional mix optimization, sample and program utilization, ROI assessments and others
• Continuously expand proficiency among data systems, programs, and software resources, lead support of data quality control and acquisition and maintenance of ad hoc analytical environments, to ensure optimal and efficient achievement of department objectives.

Quantitative Dimensions:

• Achievement of urology brand goals.
• Annual department operating budget

Organizational Context:

This position requires close collaboration with Data Governance, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Health Systems, Incentive Compensation and Field Force Deployment, Business Support and, IS.