Job Description

THE COMPANY

At Biogen, our mission is clear: we are pioneers in neuroscience. Biogen discovers, develops, and delivers worldwide innovative therapies for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. One of the world’s first global biotechnology companies, Biogen was founded in 1978 and today has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is focused on advancing neuroscience research programs in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, MS and neuroimmunology, movement disorders, neuromuscular disorders, acute neurology, neurocognitive disorders, pain, and ophthalmology. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.

Global Business Services and Business Optimization The Global Business Services (GBS) and Business Optimization team is a newly formed organization established to transform Biogen’s business processes to set a platform to scale global operations, fuel commercial growth and the innovation pipeline.  Further, GBS will provide further value by developing and delivering a suite of business solutions and support services that are valued by internal customers.   GBS will deliver services by leveraging a global delivery model, operational transparency and metrics, leveraging global best practices, and a service-oriented process improvement culture.   All solutions will be supported by strong business cases and ultimately monitored for the effectiveness and efficiency against benchmarks and service level agreements.

The vision of GBS at Biogen is to be recognized as a world-class Global Business Services organization driven by the desire for excellence in its people, business solutions, execution and partnerships with internal customers. 

THE POSITION

This Sr. Analyst, Data Analytics role is responsible for using a variety of tools to provide data analysis, extracts, reports and dashboards in support of the Global Procurement organization as a member of Global Procurement Analytics (GPA) team.  This position will be responsible for the following activities as assigned by the GPA Manager.

•    Creating strategic visualizations of data with minimum guidance •    Ability to wrangle and blend data from multiple systems •    Acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases •    Develop dashboards and presentations to communicate data to the broader organization •    Data management and maintenance of the procurement spend cube and savings systems providing category focused support •    Facilitate meetings with category managers and business stakeholders leveraging industry terminology.   •    Management and maintenance of the global procurement eRFP system.  •    SharePoint site maintenance and development 

Qualifications

•    Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in basic analytics and 2+ years advanced analytics •    Proven experience with detailed data analysis, and an ability to quickly assess and draw conclusions from complex data sets •    Experience utilizing ERP systems such as Oracle a plus •    Experience with analytics tools such as Tableau or similar tool  •    Experience with basic programming or coding knowledge for analytical calculation development application purposes.   •    Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge, and proficient with other MS Office products including Outlook and PowerPoint •    Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail •    Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ideal qualifications: •    Experience with SharePoint online site development preferred.  •    Experience with eRFP system administration preferred. •    Prior experience working within a procurement function preferred.  

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree in a STEM field, a Master level degree in Finance, Business, Supply Chain or Analytics preferred.  

Additional Information

This Sr. Analyst, Data Analytics role is responsible for using a variety of tools to provide data analysis, extracts, reports and dashboards in support of the Global Procurement organization as a member of Global Procurement Analytics (GPA) team.