Business Analyst - Incentive Compensation

Business Analyst - Incentive Compensation

Department: Commercial Insights & Analytics, GBS

Level: 5

Location: Bangalore, India

Are you a Pharma Analytics expert with a knack for transforming complex data into high-stakes business outcomes? We are looking for a Business Analyst – Incentive Compensation to join our Frontline Excellence hub in GBS. You’ll lead end-to-end IC operations, co-create requirements with global stakeholders, and deliver the insights that drive our field force forward.

The Position 

As an Associate Business Analyst/ Business Analyst, you will manage the Incentive Compensation operations and strategy, ensuring incentive delivery is accurate, timely, and insight-driven, while translating stakeholder needs into practical analytics and operational outcomes.

Your key responsibilities include:

1. Focus on Incentive Compensation Operations (IC)

• Drive end to end incentive processing and reporting per IC calendars, including data processing, validation, calculation, and reporting.
• Ensure outputs are reliable and decision-ready, supporting transparency and auditability.

2. Translating business needs into IC delivery requirements

• Understand stakeholder business requirements and translate them into IC operations delivery requirements
• Provide structured guidance on what is needed to deliver effective IC execution.

3. Maintain process documentation and operational best practices

• Keep process documentation up to date and ensure adherence to best practices to support consistency across IC cycles.
• Identify opportunities to automate repeatable steps, improving efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

4. Provide and communicate analytics to enable informed decisions

• Produce and effectively communicate pre-/post-IC analytics both qualitative and quantitative metrics that support stakeholder decision-making and action.

5. Act as a true thought partner—co-create, align, and unblock

• Proactively collaborate with stakeholders to co-create requirements, align on priorities, and resolve issues.
• Deliver field-force analytics and strategic insights to support incentive plan design and target setting.

Qualifications

We are expecting you to hold the skills and knowledge below:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s/Engineering degree from a recognized institute.
• 5+ years of Pharma industry and/or consulting experience.
• Translate business needs into efficient analysis plans; execute end-to-end analytics (data pull, preparation, and insights).
• Collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders (customers, vendors, consultants, and internal project teams).
• Having SFE capabilities is a plus - including call planning, segmentation and targeting, and territory alignment to support more effective commercial execution across the commercial value chain.
• Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving; synthesize complex data to provide cohesive recommendations and customize solutions.
• Demonstrated experience delivering field-force / commercial effectiveness projects with data-driven execution and operational excellence (including milestone tracking and support).

About the department

Commercial Insight & Analytics, GBS Bangalore, is responsible for data management, analytics and insight generation for the global markets. The unit supports global stakeholders in taking commercial execution decisions through data-driven insights. The department encompasses various hubs such as Integrated Insights & Analytics, Frontline Excellence, Strategic Pricing & Market Access and Contract Operations & Insights.

Associate Business Analyst/ Business Analyst – Frontline Incentive Operations & Strategy sub-function within Frontline Excellence hub in Commercial Insights & Analytics Department

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.

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Deadline

19 April 2026.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.