Senior Manager, HOCT, BD Analytics

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The Senior Manager, Business Development Analytics is a critical member of the BD and Strategy Analytics team. The Senior Manager serves as a key internal consultant to BMS’s leadership team by conducting financial analysis of business development opportunities and by providing valuation insights for deals, with the goal of enabling value-driven R&D & M&A decisions. They also act as integrators of other analytic services, helping development teams ensure that they make the most of BMS's full analytics capabilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistics, forecasting, decision analysis, risk assessment, as well as prior experience working in the pharmaceutical industry.

Responsibilities:

• Expected to lead/facilitate product development teams and appropriate matrix representatives in identifying compelling development strategies for further analysis.
• Responsible for financial analysis of the development options and using that analysis to provide insights into the tradeoffs among the options, with the goal of enabling value-driven R&D decisions.
• Responsible for clearly communicating their findings to development teams and to senior management.
• Act as integrators of other analytic services, helping development teams ensure that they make the most of BMS's full set of analytic capabilities
• Need to quickly come up to speed on other teams' capabilities and how to identify when those teams should be brought in to help our development teams make recommendations that serve BMS and out patients.
• Expected to develop commercial and development expertise sufficient to allow them to both support and challenge development teams.
• Quantify technical and regulatory risks, and integrate their assessments with projections of commercial revenues, and costs, in order to value R&D investments for portfolio planning.
• Provide support for evaluation of licensing and business development opportunities within their therapeutic area and provide support as needed for cross therapeutic area portfolio reviews.
• Our team members need to be comfortable raising key issues and opportunities to the attention of team and therapeutic area management.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest advances in decision analysis and risk assessment.

Position Requirements:

• The position requires 4+ years of forecasting, financial modeling, valuation, and/or decision analysis experience, Utilizing probability for revenue risk adjustments, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline, with significant training in Finance, Management Science, or Decision Analysis, is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise at structuring and completing insightful financial analyses combined with an ability to clearly communicate insights to senior management is required.
• Experience in Business development and commercial valuation preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities is required.
• Strong financial valuation modeling and analysis capabilities using spreadsheet software is required.
• Experience using decision analysis techniques to evaluate investments under uncertainty and experience with standard Excel Monte Carlo packages (such as @Risk or Crystal Ball) is desirable.

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