Manager, Business Planning - Mississauga, Canada - AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

Verified Company

Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation - ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week.

Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work.

We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we're taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.

Our Position:

The position will provide crucial business performance analysis, with a key focus on field force executional excellence and planning and targeting to enhance the entire Primary Care portfolio and achieve business targets and capitalize on growth opportunities.

The role will require interacting and collaborating with cross-functional collaborators and Sales leadership across the portfolio to build best-in class capabilities, performance frameworks, tools and learning experiences to elevate the eye for business and performance forward-thinking mentality of the Sales team.

Responsibilities include:

Responsible for leading monthly reporting and insights around District performance to the ABM Leadership Team
Understand and share key performance headlines and drivers as part of business reviews with Sales Directors & Leadership Team
Accountable for owning the agenda and content around semiyearly business reviews to drive strategic discussions to achieve targets
Resolve and supervise performance of commercial and sales activities using critical important metrics for Sales growth, Sales force execution and efficiency of prioritization
Improve salesforce understanding of customer segmentation and importance of alignment between marketing strategy and sales execution
Work closely with Analytics & Sales Leadership to proactively identify gaps and put plan of action for improvements where needed and to define key activities measures and efficiency metrics.
Establish a business planning process that increases execution excellence alignment and elevates eye for business sales competency
Support sales teams knowledge and understanding on the value of investment prioritization and strategic multi brand planning with the biggest return on investment
Support identification of new growth initiatives and establish alignment of a common nomenclature to assess opportunities for new growth across all Sales Districts
Build a funding model to ensure the budgets are allocated in areas of the biggest opportunities & growth
Lead new rep/ABM onboarding sessions around Data/Analytics
Design Performance dashboards and business/KAM templates to more effectively diagnosis current business performance and predict future performance
Drive automation of business performance reporting to ensure wider adoption and usage across the Salesforce

Minimum Qualifications:

B.Sc./ B.Com Degree or equivalent and experience in Healthcare preferred
Ability to engage, influence and collaborate across boundaries with a problem solving and delivery focus
Demonstrated project management and organizational skills
Energized by working with ambiguity and complexity
Ability to participate in collaborative partnership

Desirable criteria:

Experience working in Sales, Analytics or Commercial Operations roles
Experience with data analytics and ability to extract and communicate insights from data
Prior demonstration of leading projects & simplification that led to operational effectiveness across the enterprise
Prior experience working directly with senior leaders and influencing change management

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