Senior Manager, Brand Insights

About the role

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company is seeking a Senior Manager, Brand Insights to join our Commercial Strategy & Insights organization. This role is based in Princeton, NJ and is a full-time position with a hybrid work policy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of high quality, applicable business insights by conducting market research projects to support pipeline, prelaunch, and inline products.
• Partner cross-functionally on different strategic and analytical projects to help drive optimal business decisions.
• Lead the design and delivery of cross-functional secondary analytics reports including leadership KPI dashboards for monitoring market and brand performance.
• Lead in-depth situation analyses and SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) of relevant disease areas to support the annual brand planning process.
• Lead strategic insights workshops to convert data from primary or secondary market research projects to insights and to uncover Key Business Questions (KBQs) for each brand.
• Manage the contracted vendor and contribute to and lead the development of important insights.
• Partner in annual forecasting cycle working with forecasting team by incorporating demand study or other market research findings.
• Create and manage budgets for the brands.
• Manage and help mentor/develop direct report.

Qualifications

• 7 years of pharmaceutical/biotech commercial experience with at least 1-2 years in a Data Analytics or Insights / Forecasting / Consulting position.
• Bachelor’s degree or Post-graduate degree (Master’s/Ph.D.) in quantitative field highly desired (Public Health, Statistics, Management Science, Operations Research, Engineering, Accounting, Business, Marketing, Economics etc.).
• Experience working with secondary market research data, including prescription data, patient-level data, sales data, and payer data.
• Strong analytical, project management, fiscal management and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills and well versed in Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to interface with Executive Leadership with confidence and subject matter expertise.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, company provided basic life, accidental death & dismemberment, short-term and long-term disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, student loan assistance, a generous 401(k) match, flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid leave programs as well as other company provided benefits.