Senior Manager - Market Access Insights

About the Department                                                                                                                                                   

Our Marketing & Patient Solutions group creates and delivers human-centered experiences, where innovation meets customer-centricity, driving the ultimate experience for our patients. Our focus extends beyond transactions to craft experiences as one fully integrated, aligned and connected organization that puts empathy at the center, powered by insight and foresight.
 
We develop an end-to-end approach to strategy, focusing on every touchpoint that impacts our customers. We leverage data and insights to inform our decision-making processes, ensuring that our strategies are rooted in a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors. Our 'test and learn’ mindset and approach enables us to iterate rapidly and refine our strategies based on real-world results.

We are building an intentional team culture that is made up of diverse skillsets, united by the shared belief that reinvention and learning is what fuels continuous growth. Do you get excited about exploring the unknown? Does the idea of driving value through human-centered design pull you in? Are you ready to experiment with us?

The Position

The Senior Manager – Market Access Insights works with the Director – Market Access Insights to explore key market access topics of interest and generate holistic real-world-data-based strategic insights in order to provide tactical guidance to MAPA teams in managed markets strategy development and execution. Conducts longitudinal patient-level data analyses, integrates formulary data and payer utilization dynamics to inform the organization on level of access, payer control and implication of access on patient-behaviour through abandonment/adherence changes. Partners with PCOR and MAPA teams to provide scenarios in predicting contract change impact. Helps Associate Director, Market Access Insights in creating market access situation analyses and business reviews as needed by conducting research on healthcare landscape, collecting input from NNI stakeholders to develop the content, and executing the data analyses to develop the slide decks using payer, HCP and patient-level data assets. Guides Brand and Field Insights Teams in applying best practices for analysing market access impact on sales and understanding patient mix. Provides mentoring to junior members of Market Access Insights & Analytics team in adopting advanced data engineering methods. Continues to assess product and customer performance for all customer segments and identifies opportunities to alter/develop market/customer strategies to optimize market approach and managed markets strategies for the organization. Develops and reports insightful metrics to relevant groups, contributing to managed markets strategy decisions. Responsible for development and maintenance of a repository of strategy lessons and best practices. Collaborates with MAPA, Marketing, CMR, Commercial Insights & Analytics and PCOR teams to identify market and customer scenarios expected to have a high impact on NNI business. Leads the development of analytical models to help make business critical decisions.

Relationships

This role reports to the Director, Market Access Insights. Works closely with MAPA, Marketing, CMR, Commercial Insights & Analytics and PCOR teams.

Essential Functions

·       Develop and sustain close working relationships with key stakeholders in MAPA, Marketing, CMR, Commercial Insights & Analytics and PCOR teams to identify market and customer scenarios expected to have a high impact on NNI business.  Leads the development of analytical models to help make business critical decisions

·       Create advanced patient-longitudinal analyses, integrating formulary and payer/HCP level utilization databases to identify unexploited areas of opportunity to execute on NNI market access

·       Scan the market to understand key trends impacting markets and customers and integrate relevant structured and unstructured data to support the development of analytical models

·       Develop presentations with clear storylines, grounded on insights and holistic business concepts and deliver clear conclusions and recommendations founded in rational business sense and own perspective. Utilize understanding of findings to defend own position and secure buy-in on recommendations

·       Develop situation analysis and business reviews as needed for MAPA

·       Integrate payer insights into the brand/franchise and customer planning process to inform and develop brand/franchise and managed markets customer strategy

·       Measure impact of strategies implemented

·       Contribute to market research qualitative and quantitative marketing research projects as needed

·       Act as leader and resource to build out technical and functional capabilities of team members and insource patient-level analyses relevant to market access

Physical Requirements

Hypbrid Policy: 3 days in the office, 2 days remote.
10-20% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

·       A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution is required. Finance, Business, Statistics, Engineering or related quantitative field preferred

·       A Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) is preferred

·       A minimum of 4 years managing markets analytics/research experience with a Bachelor's degree is required

·       Demonstrated experience utilizing IQVIA LAAD to deliver actionable managed markets insights is required

·       Ability to lead without authority/reporting relationship required

·       Analytical and/or technical proficiency at analysing large data sets to derive insights

·       Comfort operating in a fast-paced, environment, with a quality control focus and a documentation orientation

·       Creative problem-solving with ability to solve complex unstructured problems; see opportunities through

·       Experience analysing pharmaceutical data, specifically Xponent, Xponent PlanTrak, data is required. Experience with data visualization (i.e. Tableau) tools preferred

·       Innate intellectual curiosity, demonstrated desire to take initiative, and ability to think creatively to solve Outstanding team- and client-facing communication skills

·       Project management skills Quantitative analysis skills

·       Statistical programming experience (SAS) preferred, including SQL

·       Strong ability to work independently as well as in teams

·       Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills required

·       Market research experience a plus

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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