Analytics Role - Forecasting - Pharma

- Ensuring objectivity of brand/therapeutic area forecasts through establishing objectives aligned around forecast accuracy.

- Developing brand volume forecasts, both short-term and long-term, to cultivate into strategic and operational planning processes.

- Sensitivity analysis to assist in opportunity identification

- Undertake strategic long-term brand and franchise forecasting and provide strategic perspective on portfolio and brand strategy, as well as new product introduction volume forecasting and guidance.

- Develop a deep understanding of customers' data and analytical needs focusing on the customer-facing model leadership.

- Break traditional patterns of thought by generating and recognizing imaginative, workable solutions to business situations and problems.

- Review sales performance, insights data, key initiatives, and new launches with brand and customer teams to ensure robust plans are in place and being executed.

- Deftly present and defend forecast approach, methodology, assumptions, and output at the executive level.

- Experience in working with large datasets, derive insights and present information through visualization and reports.

- 3+ years of analytical experience, Lifesciences Industry including experience in product forecasting. Knowledge of forecasting techniques and use of different forecast models and approaches.

- Experience in forecasting new product launch is required.

- Experience utilizing a range of analytics involving standard data in the Pharmaceutical Industry e.g. IQVIA (MIDAS, DDD NPA, Monthly Xponent), claims data (TRUVEN, Marketscan), Epidemiological data etc

- Good understanding of primary market research, sophisticated analytics, and competitive-intelligence.

- Expertise in statistical/econometric/machine learning models like Time series modeling, regression etc.

- Hands-on in analytical tools like Python/R/SAS

- Experience in MS Office - Must be a sophisticated user of PPT and Excel