Project Lead - Forecasting (1123) - Axtria, Inc.

Axtria Introduction

Axtria is a global provider of cloud software and data analytics to the Life Sciences industry. We help Life Sciences companies transform the product commercialization journey to drive sales growth and improve patient healthcare outcomes. We are acutely aware that our work impacts millions of patients and lead passionately to improve their lives.

Why join Axtria?

Since our founding in 2010, technology innovation has been our winning differentiation, and we continue to leapfrog the competition with platforms that deploy Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Our cloud-based platforms - Axtria DataMax™, Axtria InsightsIQ™, Axtria SalesIQ™, and Axtria MarketingIQ™ - enable customers to efficiently manage data, leverage data science to deliver insights for sales and marketing planning, and manage end-to-end commercial operations. With customers in over 30 countries, Axtria is one of the biggest global commercial solutions providers in the Life Sciences industry. We continue to win industry recognition for growth. We are featured in some of the most aspirational lists - INC 5000, Deloitte FAST 500, NJBiz FAST 50, SmartCEO Future 50, Red Herring 100, and other growth and technology awards.

• Bain Capital PE Invested $150M in platforms/Business Growth
• High growth each year since 2010 and private.
• Co-Founders of MarketRx.
• Humble and Entrepreneur Culture.

Axtria is looking for exceptional talent to join our rapidly growing global team. People are our biggest perk! Our transparent and collaborative culture offers a chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

Position Description:
We are currently hiring for Project Lead level professionals for our Decision Science practice who have expertise in Patient/Epidemiology based forecasting within Biopharma/Oncology

Success in this position requires:
Candidates will be expected to have expertise in managing & developing Patient/Epidemiology based forecasting models for pharma clients within Biopharma/Oncology

Responsibilities:

• Bring subject-matter expertise in Forecasting and Commercial Analytics, to solve a range of business problems in the biopharma domain.
• Manage and develop long range,  and short-range, pipeline, and BD&L forecasts
• Independently create prevalence or incidence-based patient models using information from public domain datasets, literature research, primary market research, and secondary datasets
• Thorough understanding of demand-based forecasting models (prescription or units)
• Lead client discussions aimed at identifying business issues/needs, articulating precise problem statements, devising solution approach/methodology, and leading project delivery and analytical troubleshooting.
• Business problems will span at customer (provider, account) level and patient level using large datasets and descriptive analysis
• Manage multiple concurrent projects ensuring exceptional client satisfaction and on-time delivery.
• Lead/shape deliverables, presentations and insights/recommendations to clients.
• Develop and maintain skills to the highest standards consistent with best practices and emerging trends in data science.
• Contribute to Axtria’s development of new solutions

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree / PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Economics, Statistics or a related field with 4 years of prior relevant work experience.
• Relevant expertise in managing & developing Patient/Epidemiology based forecasting models for pharma clients
• Expertise in secondary research analysis and managing the forecasting models and operations 
• Strong in excel, VBA & any having programming experience in any language to process and synthesize large datasets
• Ability to structure and model the data to solve  complex business problems
• Experience in Pharma domain and familiarity with Commercial and/or Medical use cases for advanced analytics/data science.
• Familiarity with the key industry datasets such as sales data (IQVIA XPONENT, NPA, NSP, 867, and others) and most of all claims data
• Knowledge and expertise in claims data (anonymized patient-level claims data) and EHR data is of specific interest for this role.
• Knowledge and prior work experience in one or more therapeutic areas esp. immunology, infectious disease, oncology/hematology, other specialty medicine or rare disease.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate to a non-technical audience in clear and concise language.
• Proven ability to frame a business issue, design the right solution, and deliver results.
• Ability to lead projects and project teams.
• Exposure to / experience working with large data sets (such as claims data).

Location & Logistics:

• We are hiring for Thousand Oaks, CA
• U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply.

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