Roles and Responsibilities :

- 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 feed into strategic and operational planning processes.

- Sensitivity analysis to assist in opportunity identification and risk management.

- Undertake strategic long-term brand and franchise forecasting and provide strategic perspective/guidance 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.

- 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.

- Develop and maintain key collaborative relationships with internal cross functional and external partners to initiate and obtain relevant data and analysis for forecast inputs.

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

- Coordinate/supervise and manage and lead multiple projects

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

Desired Profile:

Candidate Skills and Experience:

- 6+ years of analytical experience, 3+ years of pharmaceutical forecasting experience.

- Experience in strategic forecasting and new product launch is required.

- Experience in standard datasets in the Pharmaceutical Industry e.g. IQVIA (MIDAS, etc.), Epidemiological data etc.

- Good understanding of market research, reporting, and competitive intelligence.

Preferred qualifications:

- Strong technical experience in MS Office - Must be an advanced user of PPT and Advanced Excel

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Ownership of tasks assigned without supervisory follow-up

- Pro-active and enthusiastic to take on new challenges

- Personal drive and positive work ethic to deliver results within tight deadlines and in demanding situations

- Proactive planner and can work independently to manage own responsibilities

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

- Capability in applying deeper technical skills and knowledge that is shared across the functional area (e.g., deep knowledge of key data sets, modeling capabilities, etc.).

Education:

- M Pharma (or B.pharm), Masters in Business Administration or Master's (or Bachelor's +2yrs relevant work experience) in engineering or Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Business Analytics, or any other Quantitative discipline

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