Job Description
Reporting into the Director - Business Management, the Sr. Business Manager is responsible for supporting business and financial operations and analysis for a product specialty track within a large, complex pharmaceutical client account.
This is a client-facing role that will require a combination of business operations, project management, account management, and client relationship management skill within the broader framework of financial operations.
In this role, you will serve as a business partner and work closely with client account leads, agency finance and account leads, and other CoLab stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
- Review estimates
- Review Statements of Work
- High level cost assumptions
- High level review of spend data
- Internal forecast
- Reconciliation of forecast to staff plan
- Corporate Rolling Forecast
- Client forecast updates
- Client accruals
- Client PO management
- Client budget reporting
- Ongoing review of overall budgets
- Weekly / bi-weekly budget reconciliation meeting management
- Review / approval of time transfers
- Approval of vendor POs
- Adds strategic contribution beyond the account’s tactics
- Participates in client planning process
- Expert on the ins and outs of assigned clients
- Works directly with partners internally (Finance, Account, Production)
- Works directly with client counterparts and procurement
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 3-5 year of progressive growth within a professional environment
- Runs at least one large account or a portfolio of small accounts autonomously
- Runs large projects or a small portfolio of clients / projects independently
- Understanding of business functions such as HR, Finance, marketing etc.
- Understanding of data analysis
- Strong organizational understanding
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Ability to build Integrity and Trust with clients and internal partners
- Exhibits Self Development
30+ days ago