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UCB Pharma

Biopharmaceuticals for neurology and immunology therapies

Insight Generation Manager

Data ScienceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Practical experience in a pharmaceutical company or consulting firm.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical-industry business intelligence, insight generation, commercial excellence, business planning, marketing analytics, or related areas.
  • Experience generating insights and making strategic recommendations using data held by pharmaceutical companies.
  • Consulting-firm candidates must have handled projects for pharmaceutical companies.
  • Experience analyzing pharmaceutical secondary data, such as IQVIA, JMDC, or MDV.
  • Experience connecting data-analysis results to management or business strategy.
  • More than five years of pharmaceutical-industry experience is preferable, with broad understanding of the industry emphasized over length of service.
  • Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
  • Business-level Japanese and English.
  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Ability to communicate analytical results in a way business-unit stakeholders can understand and to understand stakeholder needs accurately and quickly.
  • Ability to promote collaboration with marketing, sales, medical, business development, pricing, finance, data management, IT, digital, and global stakeholders.
  • Ability to maintain an enterprise-wide perspective and deliver value across the company or business units.
  • Ability to work flexibly in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Basic knowledge of AI, deep learning, and machine learning, and ability to communicate with AI engineers and understand the capabilities and limitations of AI.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and facilitate analytical projects in Japan.
  • Gather and identify stakeholder needs and translate them into business questions.
  • Select appropriate approaches and assign suitable team members to solve business questions, then lead analytics projects such as advanced analytics, market research, sales force effectiveness, and secondary-data delivery.
  • Share analytics knowledge proactively with global colleagues.
  • Build clear, accurate, well-structured forecast models aligned with marketing strategy.
  • Determine assumptions for short- and long-term sales forecasts.
  • Quantify the sales impact of critical business factors.
  • Prepare documents explaining forecast logic for business reviews.
  • Develop analytics logic and conduct analyses to answer business questions.
  • Interpret analytical results in the context of the business and explain them through a business narrative.
  • Define and monitor key performance indicators for omnichannel projects.
  • Manage analysis projects using physical and digital promotion data to evaluate promotional effectiveness.
  • Use data analysis to deliver insights that improve digital initiatives.
  • Identify metrics that drive performance against strategic priorities.
  • Analyze and report performance metrics to management.
  • Share key performance indicator reports with global stakeholders at fixed intervals.
  • Understand data-source definitions, including IQVIA, JMDC, and MDV, and identify the appropriate source for each business question.
  • Recommend suitable market-research methods and create questionnaires to address business questions.
  • Analyze primary data to quantify and investigate relevant issues.
  • Oversee and ensure the quality of the team's value creation in insight generation, performance management, and analytics, including advanced analytics.
  • Provide strategic insights and guidance to business units for critical business and organizational decisions.
  • Partner across internal stakeholders to align business and digital teams.
  • Build business cases to evaluate pipeline assets and future events.
  • Discover and validate new data sources to generate insights and refine strategies and tactics.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a rare-disease therapeutic area.
  • Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline, such as an MSc, PhD, or MBA.
  • Project management certification or qualification, such as PMP, APM, Prince 2, or Agile.
  • Experience in a pharmaceutical commercial excellence department.

About the Company

UCB Pharma

Biopharmaceuticals for neurology and immunology therapies

UCB Pharma focuses on developing treatments for severe diseases in neurology and immunology. It discovers, develops, and commercializes novel molecules and generates products aimed at improving patient lives. The company works by researching and developing therapies, integrating patient insights to guide innovation, and investing over a quarter of revenue into scientific research. Its global presence (about 9,000 employees across 40 countries) and €5.3 billion 2023 revenue reflect its scale and commitment to bringing therapies to patients worldwide. UCB differentiates itself by combining direct patient engagement with substantial R&D investment to address unmet needs in neurology and immunology, aiming to transform lives through science and patient care.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
City of Brussels, Belgium
Founded
1928

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