Manager - Forecasting
Axtria
- San Mateo, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bain Capital PE Invested $150M in platforms/Business Growth
- High growth each year since 2010 and private.
- Co-Founders of MarketRx.
- Humble and Entrepreneur Culture.
We are currently hiring for Project Lead level professionals for our Decision Science practice who have expertise in Patient/Epidemiology based forecasting within Biopharma/OncologySuccess in this position requires:
Candidates will be expected to have expertise in managing & developing Patient/Epidemiology based forecasting models for pharma clients within Biopharma/OncologyResponsibilities:
- Bring subject-matter expertise in Forecasting and Commercial Analytics, to solve a range of business problems in the biopharma domain.
- Manage and develop long range, and short-range, pipeline, and BD&L forecasts
- Independently create prevalence or incidence-based patient models using information from public domain datasets, literature research, primary market research, and secondary datasets
- Thorough understanding of demand-based forecasting models (prescription or units)
- Lead client discussions aimed at identifying business issues/needs, articulating precise problem statements, devising solution approach/methodology, and leading project delivery and analytical troubleshooting.
- Business problems will span at customer (provider, account) level and patient level using large datasets and descriptive analysis
- Manage multiple concurrent projects ensuring exceptional client satisfaction and on-time delivery.
- Lead/shape deliverables, presentations and insights/recommendations to clients.
- Develop and maintain skills to the highest standards consistent with best practices and emerging trends in data science.
- Contribute to Axtria’s development of new solutions
- Bachelor’s / Master’s degree / PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Economics, Statistics or a related field with 6+ years of prior relevant work experience.
- Relevant expertise in managing & developing Patient/Epidemiology based forecasting models for pharma clients
- Expertise in secondary research analysis and managing the forecasting models and operations
- Strong in excel, VBA & any having programming experience in any language to process and synthesize large datasets
- Ability to structure and model the data to solve complex business problems
- Experience in Pharma domain and familiarity with Commercial and/or Medical use cases for advanced analytics/data science.
- Familiarity with the key industry datasets such as sales data (IQVIA XPONENT, NPA, NSP, 867, and others) and most of all claims data
- Knowledge and expertise in claims data (anonymized patient-level claims data) and EHR data is of specific interest for this role.
- Knowledge and prior work experience in one or more therapeutic areas esp. immunology, infectious disease, oncology/hematology, other specialty medicine or rare disease.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate to a non-technical audience in clear and concise language.
- Proven ability to frame a business issue, design the right solution, and deliver results.
- Ability to lead projects and project teams.
- Exposure to / experience working with large data sets (such as claims data).
- We are hiring for Foster City/San Mateo, CA
- U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply.