Job Description
Lead the delivery of actionable business insights, forecasting, and analytics to support commercial strategy and maximize performance across products. Partner closely with business units and cross-functional stakeholders to enable data-driven decision-making and optimize brand performance.
Drive forecasting activities across assigned products, including short- and long-term projections, while ensuring rigor by evaluating assumptions, identifying risks, and challenging inputs to produce reliable and unbiased forecasts. Present recommendations and key implications to senior stakeholders while aligning assumptions across functions.
Oversee insights and analytics initiatives such as market research, performance tracking, and competitive intelligence. Translate complex data into clear business narratives and actionable recommendations, ensuring outputs are logically structured, strategically relevant, and tailored to stakeholder needs.
Identify emerging business questions, risks, and opportunities by proactively assessing data gaps and evolving priorities. Support deep-dive and ad hoc analyses to address critical business challenges and uncover growth opportunities.
Align stakeholders around business priorities and manage multiple projects across brands and functions. Facilitate data-driven discussions and ensure consistency of insights across teams while balancing short-term needs with long-term considerations.
Lead, coach, and develop team members to build a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative environment. Strengthen team capabilities in analytics, forecasting, and stakeholder management while improving processes, templates, and ways of working to enhance quality and efficiency.
Qualifications
Experience in sales forecasting, commercial analytics, business insights, or related functions within the pharmaceutical industry in Japan
Demonstrated experience supporting commercial decision-making through analytics, forecasting, and market insights
Experience leading complex analytical projects and managing multiple priorities simultaneously, along with prior team leadership or people management experience
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking capabilities, with the ability to critically assess analyses, challenge assumptions, and provide objective, data-driven recommendations
Ability to translate complex analyses into clear, concise, and actionable business narratives aligned to business context
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Project management and prioritization capabilities, with the ability to manage competing priorities across teams and timelines
Experience working with datasets and market information sources such as IQVIA, MDV, JMDC, or similar data assets
Proficiency in analytical and visualization tools such as Tableau, SQL, Python, or similar platforms
Business-level English communication skills, both written and verbal
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a natural science-related field or an MBA
Preferred qualifications include experience in a multinational pharmaceutical organization in the Japanese market, strong business acumen, experience influencing stakeholders through data-driven storytelling, and a track record of improving analytical standards and processes while developing team capabilities
Benefits
Health insurance
Employees' pension
Employment insurance
Industrial injury insurance
Company Overview
A company in the biotechnology industry is hiring for a BAI Senior Manager position. This organization is a global leader dedicated to advancing science and innovation to deliver transformative therapies for patients with serious illnesses. With a strong emphasis on data-driven decision-making and customer excellence, the company seeks to empower its commercial teams through high-quality insights, analytics, and strategic partnership.