Business Analyst

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

POSITION PURPOSE:

The Business Analyst will act as a strategic partner to the business - cross-functional teams and leadership, developing actionable recommendations/scenarios based on the deep understanding of market insights and first and third-party data sources and ensuring a rigorous approach to measuring value. He/she will leverage on descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, AI and machine learning to turn data into meaningful business insights and adequately inform the decision-making process.

The Business Analyst will work in collaboration with Lilly Global Business Insight & Analytics Organization to implement at Affiliate level Advance Analytics initiatives. Has excellent technical skills combined with superior communication ones and he/she is both technically sound and have the ability to be a proactive change agent, adding value to Lilly's organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides standard and ad hoc analysis on holistic brand performance across all channels, offering impactful insights and recommendations to support business decisions;
• Multichannel comprehensive campaign evaluation, execution excellence, marketing-mix optimization modelling and segmentation analysis;
• Strategically supports long-term Sales Force structure capacity that makes the best use of available human and financial resources, including sizing, allocation, and deployment of the Sales Force in collaboration with the Global Operations team;
• Lead all advanced analytics activities on the TA and Brands assigned leveraging on clear understanding of data architecture, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, AI and Machine Learning  to turn data into meaningful business insights;
• Partner with the internal stakeholders to understand business needs;
• Leverage first- and third-party data to proactively uncover and amplify the most actionable insights;
• Track appropriate metrics to facilitate timely appropriate intervention and influence corrective actions;
• Challenge the status quo to improve strategy, implementation and processes enabling better customer experience and business results as a consequence of sound strategic analysis;
• Create and run defined standardized reports around core operational metrics and ensure the results are correct and understood;

Essential requirements

• Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field;
• Prior experience in data and analytics across variety of projects such as reporting, dashboard development, exploratory data analysis, segmentation, forecasting, statistical modelling, predictive analysis;
• English: level C1;
• Excellent data querying skills (SQL or equivalent)
• Excellent data cleaning, preparation and blending combining multiple data sources, both manually and using Data Blending tools (i.e. Alteryx, Knime, Power BI);

• Excellent data mining and modelling skills (Python, R, SAS, or equivalent);
• Excellent skills in data visualization (Power BI, Tableau or equivalent);

Additional Requirements:

• MBA is nice to have;   
• Very good understanding of the business fundamentals, business/marketing processes (Cust. Plan/Business Plan) and business strategy and drivers of business partners (BUs/TAs).
• Understanding of local healthcare industry (e.g. Healthcare data…)
•  Excellent story telling ability based on data, excellent presentation & communication skills;
• Strong project management and problem-solving ability
• Ability to influence without authority and challenge business decisions
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks/assignments to demanding deadlines with minimal supervision

Additional Information

• Place of work: Sesto F.no (FI – Italy)

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