Analyst, Business Analytics

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze payer data, formulary coverage, and market share to assess and optimize product access across commercial and government payers.
• Segment payers based on their policies, formulary positions, and prescription trends, identifying high-potential accounts and key influencers.
• Use predictive analytics and machine learning models to forecast payer behavior, such as formulary changes, policy shifts, or reimbursement trends.
• Analyze patient claims data, physician prescribing behavior, and treatment utilization patterns in response to payer policies and formulary changes
• Monitor competitor activities, including pricing, formulary status, and payer contracts, to assess their impact on market share and market access strategies.
• Develop scenario-based models to simulate different deals/ contracts and study the impact of different payer policies on product uptake.
• Provide analytics support to Novartis internal customers on various high complexity analytical reports.
• Working knowledge of multiple datasets e.g. LAAD, Xponent, Plantrak, SMART etc. and formulary datasets (MMIT, DRG - Fingertip, etc.), managing and organizing data sets from databases to find patterns and trends in data.
• Transforming these complex and granular data into actionable insights.
• Putting together specifications to extract/transform data into required formats for different analytical elements using SQL/DSS or other data processing tools.
• Require experience in quantitative analysis with a demonstrated focus in analytics, and experience with coding languages (SQL OR Python) to query and extract data. Also, experience with BI tools, working with very large data sets is a plus.
• Create the foundation for more sophisticated approaches to existing analysis and leverage advanced analytics wherever it is required and beneficial.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with key functional stakeholders.
• Takes initiative to drive standardization of reports across brands.

Essential Requirements:

• Masters/ bachelor’s in technology/ life-sciences/ management
• Minimum of 2+ years’ experience processing and analyzing market access data sources such as IQVIA, MMIT, DRG, or Symphony Health.
• Strong understanding of US healthcare systems, payer landscapes, and reimbursement dynamics
• Expertise in SQL, DataIKU and/or other data processing tool. Knowledge of Statistical modeling or ML is a plus.
• Understanding of healthcare terminology and real-world patient level data
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. Conceptual, analytical & tactical thinking, strategic thought process

 Desired Requirements:

• Experience in Market Access Integrated Insights or Managed Markets strategy.
• Ability to multi-task, work in a demanding global team environment, work under tight deadlines. Develop and maintain strong individual and team performance.

Skills Desired