Associate Manager - Pharma Pricing

Key responsibilities:

- Categorise in headlines the key responsibilities that demonstrates the variety of roles that the organisation expects the position to fulfil

People management & Development:

- Lead a team of analysts to ensure delivery of tasks as per business requirement

- Ensuring availability of right talent pool in team: Including recruitment of right talent and career planning of existing resources

- Talent development within the team considering the current and future requirements

Operations management:

- Operations mgmt. for the team and making sure that there is strong contingency plan in place for Business continuity

- Tactical participation in the Operational review discussions and Business review meetings

- Setting Governance with the Line of Business (LoB) and internal team-members

- Succession management for team

Strategic tasks:

- To set the long-term vision of the team and drive progress towards that

- To discuss, contribute and challenge during key business decision meetings

Key project management:

- To drive, manage and deliver the critical projects as an SME as per need

Stakeholder Management:

- To make sure that Stakeholders are aligned and informed to the relevant details from GBS

- Collaborating closely with Stakeholders across seniority level to look at feedback, development opportunities

Business development:

- Driving key assessment projects to look at potential for offshoring

Finance GBS initiative and responsibilities:

- Key participation in Commercial Analytics and Extended management meetings and driving initiatives

- Driving and managing key initiatives within department and at unit level to meet the strategic requirements

Functional responsibilities for Pricing:

- Use strong quantitative and analytic abilities to integrate and analyse Pharma pricing-related data

- Ensuring the successful delivery of pricing tasks from the team including data queries, reports, Price certificates, Business case evaluations, Reference pricing analytics and strategic project

- Provide analytical and consulting services in designing, delivering and executing projects related to Pharmaceutical Pricing

- Monitor the pricing & access landscape

- Develop competitive intelligence on pricing & access and provide insights into current and future market dynamics

- Support the development of brand pricing strategies by seeking most recent data and updating files and analyses of competitive landscape for review with senior leadership

Main job tasks:

- For each headline indicated above the job tasks should be described in more detail

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the business requirement and execute the key projects

- Managing the resources for the day to day tasks. Making sure that the SoPs and checklists are in place for all the recurring tasks

- Resource management for the tasks. Also, to closely monitor the utilisation of the team

- To have back-ups for all the critical tasks. To make sure that the BCP is in place for the tasks and the succession planning is managed well

- To agree on the KPIs for the team's performance along with the management. Then monitoring the agreed KPIs

- To drive new transitions and incremental tasks within the team. This would include understanding the scope of the support and providing suggestions on the set-up

- To drive initiatives at Finance GBS level and taking up the ownership of the same

- To clearly define the Roles and responsibilities for the team members

- To support management in the strategic discussions to look at the future of the team

Scope of Authority:

- Project management

- Resource management

- Operations

- Managing projects with stakeholders to make sure successful delivery

Other areas of responsibility:

- IDP and performance discussions with team members

- Compliance to IT and dress code policies for the team

- Ensure own unit comply with local legislation and health and safety requirements (as described in Q189808 - Health and Safety )

- Collaborate with HS reps and ensure their involvement in relevant health and safety processes

- Appoint adequate resources with right competences to perform tasks related to health and safety

Communication and Stakeholder interaction:

Key stakeholders Type of communication:

- Strategic Pricing

- Finance GBS

- Vendors for projects

- Existing Stakeholders

- New prospective stakeholders- Details of operations, updates

- To represent team in Finance GBS forums

- Details of tasks, team management, upcoming changes, team bonding

- Status updates, strategic discussions, upcoming projects, Project Updates and Timelines

- Pitching in for new projects/resources

- Upcoming projects and prospective business deals

Innovation and change:

- Driving Inducting and Buddy group initiative in GBS Finance

- Supporting internal movements of resources as per their IDP and job requirements

Geographic responsibility: IO, North West Europe, APAC, Business areas across APAC