Business Planning and Analysis Manager

**Job Description Summary** \-To support the business within a country with complex analysis, reporting, forecasts etc. (typically very large to large revenue) and may coordinate a team of specialists. To act as a Business Partner for BPA within a country, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the management team. **Job Description** **Major accountabilities:**  * Ensure the operational conversion of the BPA strategic goals within a dedicated area of the business -Provide management with accurate, relevant business analysis to support monthly operational reviews and ad-hoc requests, and ensure timely and accurate information gathering. * Perform analysis to evaluate risks or opportunities; make recommendations to mitigate these risks. * Manage and provide financial analysis and decision making support for a investment/project in a domain -Ensure ongoing business performance is appropriately monitored and measured, and drive early warning for re-direction of resources with Business Partners. * Provide accurate operational information and advice to support the annual budgeting, rolling forecast and Strategic Planning processes. * Ensure integrity of data provided by commercial teams, and provides value added; provides recommendations on forecast accuracy improvement. * Provide well managed and quality financial analysis in order to improve business case proposals and profitability tracking. * Continually improve and streamline existing management reporting processes and support the definition and implementation of lean processes to meet the changing demands of the business. * May supervise the performance and development of a small team of BPA specialists. * Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Sandoz products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)  **Key performance indicators:** * Internal customer satisfaction with quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of financial analyses provided -Reliability, timeliness and accuracy of budgetary and financial forecasts -Accuracy of early-warning system and results. *  Managing risks and ops efficiently for the line of business  **Minimum Requirements:    Work Experience:** * Functional Breadth. * Financial Management. * Operations Management and Execution.  **Skills:** * Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders. * Ai Driven. * Compliance And Controls. * Critical Thinking. * Data Cleansing / Normalization. * Data Visualization. * Employee Engagement. * Financial And Management. * Giving And Receiving Feedback. * Insight Generation. * Interpersonal Savvy. * Managing Ambiguity. * Market Understanding. * Planning & Analysis. * Process Optimization. * Rapid Problem Solving. * Reporting. * Understanding Value Drivers.  **Languages :** * English. **Skills Desired** Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers