Commercial Business Partner - Bloemfontein
IQVIA · Bloemfontein, Free State
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- The Associate Commercial Business Partner supports the Commercial Business Partnering function across the Real World Evidence RWE portfolio. The role provides structured commercial, financial, and operational support across the end-to-end opportunity and project lifecycle, partnering with Principals In Charge PICs and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure accuracy, compliance, and delivery against revenue and margin objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Forecast revenue for assigned Offerings through regular monitoring of the pipeline and active opportunities, in coordination with Local and Global Sales & Delivery Teams
- Act as a key partner to PICs by providing end-to-end project lifecycle support, including opportunity setup guidance, execution assistance, pass-through management and invoicing
- Drive process consistency, governance adherence, and operational efficiency
- Conduct regular project profitability reviews to understand performance drivers and trends, and identify opportunities for margin improvement
- Provide financial and commercial analysis to support performance and decision-making
- Act as a key point of contact for project-level financial and operational queries across RWE stakeholders for assigned Offerings
- Support Annual Sales Incentive Plan administration and tracking
- Ad-hoc tasks and analyses, as required
Skills, Education, Experience and Competencies
- Typically requires 3-5 years' business controlling or project finance experience
- University degree Master / Bachelor in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or equivalent
- Knowledge of revenue recognition, forecasting, variance analysis, month-end processes and P&L management
- Strong Excel and systems capability CRM, SAP, Hyperion or equivalent
- Experience working with commercial and financial data
- Highly numerate with strong analytical skills and excellent attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders in a matrixed environment
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
- Collaborative team player
- Ability to prioritize tasks and operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Fluency in English spoken and written to a strong business standard