Sr. Area Business Strategist - ICTx Sales Ops

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Arden Hills

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

About the role

 

The Area Business Strategist will drive analytics, strategy, and planning for the Interventional Cardiology (ICTx) sales team in the Cardiology Group of Boston Scientific. As an integral member of the Sales Strategy Operations team, this position partners directly with our Area Vice Presidents and is responsible for building, reporting, and influencing commercial sales growth models to enable the organization to grow at scale for years to come.

 

The ideal candidate will have strong business insight, excellent analytical skills, technical skills, financial acumen, and a bias toward action and teamwork. Strong process orientation and the ability to work in a cross-functional environment at all levels are also required.

 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Timely delivery of reoccurring deliverables (weekly, monthly, and quarterly) that monitor business trends, area performance and rankings, sales process and pipeline metrics, and key corporate initiatives
• Formulate analytical strategies for proactively solving business problems, achieving commercial objectives, and developing new business opportunities
• Interpret data trends and present data-driven strategic insights and actionable recommendations to senior leadership related to business performance, operations, and customer insights that grow the business effectively.
• Train business users to self-serve in analytics using existing resources. Educate business users on data nuances and develop their ability to identify and distill actionable items through data mining. Drive adoption of storytelling rooted in data analytics.
• Supports development of scalable processes, structures, tools, mythology, and resources for the sales organization to execute strategic priorities.
• Assist with preparation of presentation materials for sales leadership, executives, board of directors, and other stakeholders (internal & external)
• Self-direct and prioritize incoming requests for analysis projects
• Build strong collaborative relationships across the division (including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Pricing & Contracting, Sales Training, and other internal groups, etc.). Ensure alignment with proposed strategies and plans and facilitate collaboration towards achieving common goals and outcomes

 

 

What we’re looking for in you:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Marketing, or related discipline
• 4+ years of experience in Sales Operations, Finance, Marketing, or Sales
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Experienced in Tableau and Salesforce
• Ability to troubleshoot and problem-solve complex business operations challenges  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to mobilize key stakeholders and engage leadership
• Highly analytical with the ability to analyze large sets of data from multiple perspectives to generate conclusions and drive decisions
• Ability to interpret ambiguous req