Job Description

Position Overview - Basic Functions & Responsibility

Influence brand/franchise decision-making by developing and implementing appropriate competitive intelligence and secondary market research plan, timeline, and budget in a compliant manner

Effectively collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders to understand business issues and design appropriate methodology and develop actionable insights

Leverage relevant insights, including primary research, secondary data, competitive intelligence, syndicated reports and databases to present a wholistic view of business situation and performance

The Core Responsibilities are:

Collaborates proactively with marketing team to understand and address key business decisions including strategy development, forecast assumptions, execution choices and performance measurement

Develop and implement competitive intelligence and data purchase plan, timeline, and budget in a compliant manner in collaboration with marketing teams and other stakeholders as aligned to business & strategic priorities

Engage with external agencies to ensure appropriate methodologies are incorporated, including the use of innovative approaches and integration with competitive intelligence and secondary data an appropriate way

Leverage relevant insights, including secondary data, syndicated reports, databases and competitive intelligence, and integrates these into a compelling story to guide business decisions

Identify specific metrics and mechanisms to measure benefits and plans to activate these mechanisms at the required time. Monitors benefits against what was predicted in the business case.

Sometimes specific roles include incremental skills within market-specific domains (oncology, vaccine, etc.)

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Business Analysis, Data Science, Demand Management, Innovation, Requirements Management, Sourcing and Procurement, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

03/31/2025

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Requisition ID:R322427