Business Analytics & Insight Partner

Taylor Strategy Partners; Bedford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Taylor Strategy Partners is seeking a UK/Ireland BI Lead to partner with country leads and GMs across eight markets. You will own regional BI, analytics and insights, guiding strategic planning and decision making for finance, sales and brands.

The role emphasizes forecasting ownership, NHS/trust data analysis, and business partnering within a global BI function, focusing on regional data structures and dashboards to enable growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading regional forecast submissions in collaboration with finance and business heads.
• Hands-on experience with country-level NHS/trust data analyses.
• Strong business partnering with country and regional heads within a global BI function.
• Experience providing strategic input to financial decision making with senior leadership.
• Background in BI/analytics within pharma/biotech and growth portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Provide BI/analytics and insights to support finance, sales and brand teams across eight markets.
• Develop and maintain data structures and visualisations with global, local and support teams.
• Support strategic planning with regional insights including 5-year forecasts.
• Generate local/regional insight plans including market research and wider commercial analytics.

Skills

Forecasting

Data analysis

Business partnering

NHS data

CRM data

Financial data

Brand analytics

Strategic planning

Job description

Description

This role will act as the UK/Ireland B.I Lead reporting into the Global Business Intelligence and Analytics Head, partnering with the local country leads and general managers of the 8 countries within your remit.

This role is therefore suitable for pharma/biotech commercial intelligence specialists capable of owning their given country/region's insights and analytics capabilities, partnering with the senior leadership team whilst working within a global group. The core responsibility of the Regional BI&A Lead is to provide business intelligence, analytics and insights across a growing portfolio to support finance, sales and brand teams during a period of major growth. The relevant profile is most likely to have the following background:

• Forecasting ownership – hands on experience of leading the forecast submission for their region, working alongside finance, the wider field-force and business unit heads to ensure strategic planning and core decision making is supporting by such analysis
• Hands-on experience of country-level data sets primarily NHS/trust data
• Business partnering should be a core aspect of the successful candidate’s recent career, where this position will work closely with the country and wider EMEA regional heads
• Experience having worked alongside finance to provide strategic input to financial decision making
• The candidate is likely to have strong experience in business transformation projects - our client's recent portfolio growth is set to continue
• The candidate is likely to have previously held senior manager or associate director positions within a B.I related field

This role will entail:

• Supporting strategic business decision making through the provision of recommendations based on solid evidence for the region and more broadly for the global organisation
• Working with sub national value analytics - analytics at the NHS hospital / trust level coupling that with internal CRM and financial data to make strategic commercial decisions
• Optimising the sales performance and profitability of brands via customer insights / intelligence to generate key recommendations amongst strategic discussions
• Providing partnering support to their wider global teams as part of ongoing global projects often spread out to regional leads
• Providing analytics support to sales management of the region to ensure optimal and timely reporting and insights to the sales organisation
• Build and maintain data structures and visualisation with both global, local and support team
• Lifecycle management: Provide core support to both short and medium-term strategic planning; including pre-launch and post launch products, including input to the generation of 5-year forecasts for strategic planning purposes from a regional standpoint
• Develop and present local/regional insight plans including market research and wider commercial analytics