Job Description

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, AstraZeneca has been recognized as a Greater Toronto Area Top Employer for eight straight years. We pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation - ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

To best support our employees in balancing personal and work commitments, we've embraced a hybrid model of working that gives employees flexibility in how they manage their time. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

Our purpose is bold and so is our approach. Becoming a more agile and innovative company means creating a vibrant, dynamic culture where we celebrate entrepreneurial thinking and act with a sense of urgency. We are adventurous, doing things differently and learning from both success and failure. We are curious, creative, and open to new insights and ways of working. Above all, we are passionate about science and driven to always put patients first. Join us and be part of a great place to work; an environment that energizes and empowers each of us to contribute to achieving our goal to develop and deliver life-changing medicines.

Position Title: Business Unit Analytics Manager - Oncology (Heme / GI), Vaccines and Immune Therapy

Position Type: Regular, Full-Time Hybrid

Location: Mississauga, Head Office

Are you insatiably curious about what drives a business to be successful? Are you a data wizard, a thought provoker who can credibly translate information about products and customers to build strategic insights? Do you have a customer focus and strive to assess and meet the needs of various business partners? Do you possess an ability to influence senior decision makers on key decisions and opportunities? Are you driven to impact how customer and product strategies are implemented?

Reporting into the Sr. Manager, Performance and Digital Analytics, you will be an integral partner to our cross-functional brand teams and the Oncology therapeutic area, focusing on Heme / GI, along with our new Vaccines and Immune Therapy business units. You will work closely with the respective therapeutic area Insight Manager(s) to deliver the insights, analytics and reporting needs of the business unit.

Joining AZ Canada, you will have the opportunity to stretch your skills and apply your expertise to a rapidly growing business. You will be able to influence and drive growth across multiple disease areas and brands, including the enablement and optimization of omni-channel experiences. Through these experiences, you can deepen your skills through modern techniques applied to wide-range of data including customer segmentation, sales and prescription data.

You will have responsibility to:

Actively analyze customer, competitor and product information and provide recommendations to brand teams, sales and business unit leadership

Communicate and influence strategic input into portfolio planning and optimization of resources across the portfolio, including creative simulations for various scenarios

Manage development of customer segmentation and patient share models to generate inputs for sales targeting strategies and execution plans

Facilitate the annual sales quota setting, in collaboration with the forecasting team, and incentive payout process

Ability to lead change and adoption through business strategies and process transformations

Drive implementation of advanced analytic models and outputs to enhance customer engagement effectiveness and business outcomes

Create data-driven recommendations through robust analysis across digital channel engagement strategies

Deliver monthly reports, ad-hoc analysis and recommendations for all products in business portfolio

Measure execution of therapeutic area strategy against key performance indicators

Partner with Marketing and Sales to generate insights and reports to drive the strategic direction

Partner with other cross-functional teams, including the Data Capabilities, Advanced Analytics, and IT, to design and implement new business capabilities

Your qualifications include:

3+ years pharmaceutical experience (preferred) and / or University degree or equivalent experience in science and/or business (Pharmaceutical sales experience is an asset)

Knowledge and experience within the Oncology and/or Vaccine and Immune Therapeutic Area(s)

Intimate understanding and working knowledge of IQVIA & Patient Support Program data sets is an asset

Strong analytical mind-set and proven track record with analytics (e.g. Excel, Python, SQL, and/or R) and business intelligence solution (e.g. Power BI, MicroStrategy, and/or Tableau)

Strong communication and presentation skills, including proficiency with PowerPoint or similar

Strong critical thinking/planning skills to create business value through dashboard and report creation.

Strong ability to build relationships including demonstrated history of successful collaboration and partnership

Great People want to Work with us! Find out why:

GTAA Top Employer Award for 8 years:

Best Workplace Culture Award at the 2018 Canadian HR Awards:

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Are you interested in working at AZ, apply today!

AstraZeneca is committed to taking every reasonable precaution to protect employees, our customers and the healthcare systems in the communities in which we serve. In an effort to protect the wellbeing of our employees and customers, full COVID-19 vaccination is a crucial requirement of all positions at AstraZeneca. As such, all offers of employment will be conditional upon either (i) proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or (ii) proof of need for accommodation under relevant human rights legislation, and AstraZeneca's determination that the requested accommodation can be provided without undue hardship. You will be required to submit proof of full vaccination or proof of need for accommodation during our background screening process.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing .

Date Posted 25-Oct-2022

Closing Date 01-Nov-2022

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.