Senior BPA Manager

Job Description Summary

Lead all BPA activities within a country or cluster, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.

 

Job Description

Major Accountabilities:

• Manage the execution of regional / global strategies for own part of the organization and the correct and timely implementation of BPA processes and policies and ensure adherence thereof
• Deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial information
• Lead the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in Global and Regional, country, Business Franchise (BF), and Business Unit (BU) planning
• Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results
• Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data: Sales trends, Functional Expenses, Other Income and Expenses, Impairment review, Management Cash Flow, Capital Investments, life time costs for projects, NPV etc.
• Support the organization’s leadership team with financial analysis (including Risks and Opportunities analysis), cost analysis and control and drive corrective actions
• Conduct value added analyses, e.g. Resource Allocation, Profitability analyses, Benchmarking to recommend short -and long-term targets and improvement areas
• Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt

Work Experience:

• Functional Breadth
• Financial Management
• Project Management
• Business case management
• Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience
• Pharma industry experience is a plus

Skills:

• Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders
• Ai Driven
• Building Effective Teams
• Capital Allocation
• Critical Thinking
• Data Cleansing / Normalization.
• Data Visualization
• Financial And Management Reporting
• Giving And Receiving Feedback
• Insight Generation
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Managing Ambiguity
• Market Understanding
• Planning & Analysis
• Pmi (Post-Merger Integration)
• Process Optimization
• Rapid Problem Solving
• Understanding Value Drivers

Languages:

• Turkish
• English

 

Skills Desired

Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Visualization, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Process Optimization

Global pharmaceutical company focused on innovative medicines in oncology, immunology, and neuroscience. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

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