Senior Manager, HOCT, BD Analytics

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, HOCT, BD 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

• Lead/facilitate product development teams and appropriate matrix representatives in identifying compelling development strategies for further analysis.
• Perform financial analysis of development options and provide insights into tradeoffs to enable value-driven R&D decisions.
• Clearly communicate findings to development teams and to senior management.
• Act as integrators of other analytic services to maximize the use of BMS's analytic capabilities.
• Learn other teams' capabilities and determine when they should be engaged to support recommendations that serve BMS and patients.
• Develop commercial and development expertise to support and challenge development teams.
• Quantify technical and regulatory risks and integrate assessments with projections of commercial revenues and costs to value R&D investments for portfolio planning.
• Provide support for evaluation of licensing and business development opportunities within their therapeutic area and cross-therapeutic area portfolio reviews.
• Raise key issues and opportunities to team and therapeutic area management.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest advances in decision analysis and risk assessment.

Qualifications

• 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 and communicating insights to senior management.
• Experience in business development and commercial valuation preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong financial valuation modeling and analysis capabilities using spreadsheet software.
• Experience using decision analysis techniques to evaluate investments under uncertainty and familiarity with standard Excel Monte Carlo packages (e.g., @Risk or Crystal Ball) is desirable.

Skills

• Financial analysis and modeling
• Decision analysis and risk assessment
• Portfolio valuation and strategic analytics
• Communication with senior leadership
• Cross-functional collaboration

Education

• Graduate degree in Finance, Management Science, Decision Analysis, or a related quantitative field is strongly preferred.