Senior Sales Analyst

Company Description

Abb Vie s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

The Senior Sales Analyst, Incentive Compensation (IC), Migraine and Psych is responsible for playing a key role in developing and managing a motivational sales incentive program throughout the Migraine and Psych organization that is aligned to each business s strategic objectives. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, modeling compensation plans, running and validating supportive analyses, creating compensation programs that align with business strategies, and ensuring accuracy in all deliverables to internal and external colleagues.

Respond timely and accurately to field sales inquiries and work closely with sales and marketing teams and all internal departments. Develop communications including Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel files.

Key Responsibilities:

• Consulting
• Responsibilities include planning, design, analysis, implementation, communications, administration, and validation of all sales incentive programs inclusive of contest and kickers.
• Develop incentive programs based on identified marketing and commercial strategies, available resources, and overarching incentive program design.
• Provide guidance, and support in the development of special incentives.
• Aid in managing and working closely with compensation processing vendor including project management, incentive validation, change implementation and reporting. Individual works closely with field sales, sales management, marketing, marketing analytics and business insights, forecasting, sales reporting, and Executive Leadership in all aspects of field incentives to ensure program elements are aligned with corporate objectives, the programs are fair, equitable, motivating, and valid.
• Leads field sales Recognition program including budget administration and communication. Works closely with the Recognition program vendor to ensure the program requirements and timelines are adhered to and are accurate.
• Work closely with the reporting team to understand and assist with data reporting needs.
• Ensure that upcoming franchise-specific changes are communicated in a timely manner to the outside vendor team.
• Validate and approve franchise-specific results from ongoing operations (attainments, payouts, eligibility, etc.).

Analytics

• Individual must proactively perform regular analysis of IC results to proactively identify areas of improvement and opportunity for increased motivational value. Must analyze impact of changes in franchise-specific sales trends and how market events and overall strategies may impact performance and IC results. Individual will host field sales taskforce meetings/office hours to continually discuss, analyze and refine programs to reinforce desired behavior.
• Support in the administration of sales incentives such as Summit and SPIFFs and creates and develops reports for these programs. Ability to analyze programs.
• Develop reporting, analysis and insights which guide business decision making.
• Provide direct support to Leadership and field personnel to respond to incentive questions and perform investigations.

Communication

• Develop communication materials for Leadership that effectively communicates the incentive program in a clear, motivational way.
• Leading New Hire Training
• Weekly/Monthly field communications on IC data posting

Education

• BA/BS degree required or equivalent experience, advanced degree preferred
• 2-4 years of previous work experience in sales compensation, sales operations, or analytics

Background

• Collaborates and can influence without authority working across organizations.
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Confidence in providing subject matter expertise to Stakeholders
• Understanding of field sales activities, roles, and behaviors preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
• Ability to clearly and confidently articulate complex and difficult concepts.
• Ability to develop and deliver training and…