About the Department

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

Provide analytical support by proactively monitoring business developments; provides insights and analytics expertise, primarily through analysis of complex data, to help guide Novo Nordisk on portfolio, franchise, and brand strategy development and execution. Responsible for monitoring market trends, project coordination, and maintaining related tools focused on Novo Nordisk's US cardiometabolic brands and indications. Develop, refine, and update quantitative tracking models and systems, along with documented supporting assumptions to support strategic objectives. Develop communications materials including slides and reports reflecting clear and concise conclusions and recommendations for key stakeholders. Provide support to strategic insights into understanding of patient treatment dynamics and market performance as well as bring ability to triangulate multiple sources to develop innovative solutions to complex, unstructured problems with limited guidance.

Relationships

Reports to Semaglutide Analytics Director. Working in collaborating with other members of Semaglutide Insight and Analytics Center of Excellence; Internal relationships include close interactions with other cross functional colleagues in Commercial Insights & Analytics (CI&A), IT, Commercial Strategy and Marketing. External relationships include interactions with external data partners and consultants.

Essential Functions

• Analysis:

• Analytical thinker and creative problem solver, ability to influence others with verbal and written communication

• Develop presentations with clear storylines, grounded on insights and holistic business concepts and delivers clear conclusions and recommendations founded in rational business sense and own perspective and understanding of findings, stands and defends own position and rational

• Demonstrate competencies across descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analytics

• Establish effective partnerships by working closely and collaboratively with business partners and associates to ensure holistic, well designed, and integrated insights to provide pragmatic recommendations based on:

• thorough analysis of internal and external business issues and environmental factors

• careful assessment of available data and determination of knowledge gaps

• translating data and information into trends with business

• taking initiative and follow-through on insights to maximize results and knowledge base

• Explore new ways to generate analytical insights through understanding of available datasets

• Explore new tools to gain greater efficiencies in deriving analytical insights

• Utilize existing analytic tools including Python, R, Alteryx, etc. to derive insights from complex data sources

• Collaboration

• Work seamlessly with other members of the Sema Integrated Analytics Team and Enterprise Analytics

• Share learnings with all members of analytics community

• Develop close and impactful relationships with data governance, patient privacy, and compliance departments

• Effectively work with Data Strategy and IT to ensure data and technical resources are available for data exploration

• Develop productive working relationships with Sales Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Advanced Analytics and Market Access Analytics

• Communication

• Develop impactful story lines to drive business decision making

  Physical Requirements

  0-10% overnight travel required. Approximately 5% overnight travel.

  Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with focus in Business, Analytics, Math, Science, or Engineering preferred (MBA or advanced degree a plus)

• 1-year relevant work experience in commercial pharmaceutical analytics function

• Knowledge and understanding of IQVIA datasets (prior experience with longitudinal patient datasets such as LAAD) and/or other secondary industry sources preferred

• Experience with statistical programming language (SQL, Python, R) preferred

• Experience with BI/visualization tools is required (Tableau, Qlik, Power BI preferred)

• Experience in mathematical modeling for prediction, clustering and classification preferred

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required

• Ability to organize/manipulate data and see big picture from scattered pieces of information

• Positive and eagerness to learn, collaborate and partner with internal business colleagues

• An innate curiosity is required

  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.

  If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.