Senior Analyst, Enterprise Investment Optimization

Senior Analyst, Enterprise Investment Optimization, Enterprise I&A
Location – Hyderabad #LI Hybrid

Major Accountabilities

Enterprise Investment Optimization Recommendations

• Help answer ambiguous investment and resource-allocation questions through data analytics and objective frameworks.

• Support AIDE EIO leadership deliver recommendations covering the direct spend, capability spend, and HQ and field FTE resourcing across the US portfolio.

• Enable articulation of the implications, trade-offs, risks and expected outcomes of all investment scenarios.

• Maintain benchmarking through external partnerships to assess Novartis investment levels against comparable players.

• Enable optimal allocation of investments by challenging historical approaches and comparing baseline vs last year’s budget.

• Help develop executive-ready narratives that enable EIO leadership take decisions without needing to interpret underlying analytics details.

Enterprise Standards & Capability Building

• Apply and continuously improve the enterprise methodology and approach to resource optimization.

• Help establish subject matter expertise and functional capability in AIDE.

Minimum Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree required.

Novartis seeks an individual with relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry who combines quantitative fluency with consulting capability.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in resource allocation, investment optimization, commercial analytics, strategic finance, or management consulting in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field

• Experience translating quantitative model output into strategic recommendations

• Experience in marketing mix, promotion response, and investment optimization methodologies sufficient to interrogate assumptions, methodology, and limitations

Essential Requirements

• Strong analytical, problem solving and consulting capability – structuring ambiguous questions into clear analytical needs

• Quantitative fluency to develop modeling methodology and interpret results critically, without being the model builder

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to co-present investment recommendations to leadership

• Comfort operating with ambiguity and incomplete evidence

• Proficiency with Excel and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar)

Preferred Skill Sets

• Working knowledge of the US pharmaceutical commercial model and its data and analytics ecosystem

• Familiarity with AI-enabled approaches to investment analysis, scenario modeling, and process modernization

Success Measures

• Deliverable Quality: Quality of EIO analytics and insights, used to develop and shape recommendation proposal to the business stakeholders.

• Efficiency and Scalability: Delivery efficiency and extend of process standardization achieved using AI-based approaches to enable capability scaling.

• Stakeholder Confidence: EH and AIDE LT having high confidence in generated insights and recommendations, considering the role as a trusted source of insights for objective decision making.

Location: Hyderabad NKC | Hybrid | 3 days a week in office is mandatory.

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