Business Analyst

The scope of services includes the following tasks, which are independently performed by the external contractor:

• Communicating with Operative Unites Pre-defined colleagues/functions in the local Boehringer operating units (OPUs) to review translations of Market research questionnaires and providing required documents to OPUs for local compliance approval

• Sending translated questionnaires and research material, which are provided by external agencies, to the contacts in the OPUs and checking the translations. The contractor receives the translated questionnaires and research material from the external agency via mail and sends these to the contacts in the OPUs to check the translation

• Tracking the project progress and identifying how to progress the project, Every primary market research initiative has given (pre-defined) timelines for individual steps, which includes also time for feedback and input from local Boehringer operating units or other global functions. Exact flow will be provided to the contractor via the project check list

• At the beginning of the primary market research initiatives key milestones and deliverables are defined (finalisation of screener, finalisation of questionnaire/discussion guide, fieldwork start and end with HCPs, preliminary read-out of results, final result read-out). The contractor needs to provide update (normally via Word/Excel-document regarding the progress, if the next milestone can be met and if not,how the timelines will change including timelines for upcoming milestones)

• Collecting the input to material from OPUs and providing it back to the agency for integration into the material. The contractor tracks the timeline for the project stakeholders and collects the input material from OPUs and provides back to the agency for integration into the material

• Collecting information from different contributors via e-mail, consolidating the information and providing the aligned BI feedback to the primary market research agency, so that project can progress with the next process step.

• Collecting all relevant information via own tracking tool for conducting a primary market research studies are available and submitting it for NTA (non trail activity) review to fulfil Boehringer’s procedure before speaking with external customers. In case of missing/incomplete information contacting the OPUs and BI project owner to make this information available for the NTA team.

• One time attending external pilot interviews with health care professional and/or patients and amend market research materials with the agency accordingly.

• Tracking if changes to the questionnaire were implemented by the external agency. Seeking approval from the BI contractor project owner for final changes.

• Developing/reviewing global & local summary presentations of the results of a market research. The contractor receives summaries and presentations of the market research from the agencies and checking these summaries and presentations against the objectives and providing these materials to the BI Project owner for review and approval. The internal BI project owner provides the reports to the business partners as final deliverables.

• Providing follow-up analysis and checking executive summaries based on the contracto’s expertise by listening to HCPs interviews and to control/track if key collected insights are reflected in the final deliverable/report.

• Clarifying possible remaining questions of business partners with the market research agency and providing a summary of the answers. The BI project owner reviews this and finally provides it to the internal team. All material, reports and questions are to be sent via email and uploaded to iShare.

Optimisation:

• Identifying any areas where the Market Research Agency output may to be improved to make the results clearer to BI. (Measurement by Feedback from internal business partners). Rephrasing questionnaire pre- / and post interviews with Healthcare Professionals (HCP) / patients upon need of regarding market research. Providing these optimizations to the BI project owner and checking case by case if a certain business partner need direct project clarification

• Checking accuracy & completeness of delivered analysis from external Market Research Agency in final reports, based on the contractor?s expertise.