MSD - Senior Manager - Forecasting

We have an opening for Sr Manager - Forecasting for Pune location. We require 10 - 16 years' experience in Commercial Forecasting or Data Analytics (Advance analytics preferable) in Pharma domain with exposure to Statistical techniques and modelling. If interested, please share your profile on dipali.kamble@merck.com

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MSD - Senior Manager - Forecasting

This role is responsible for commercial forecasting, data analytics and project people management for our products by applying various statistical techniques, communicating therapy area knowledge and market dynamics to development team and managing stakeholder.

Our Marketing team are passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world. Through digital listening and patient analytics, we are able to understand our customers- needs and strive to provide solutions to meet them.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

Responsibilities :

Area of Responsibility :

- Project planning and management.

- Lead and manage team responsible for deploying analytical solutions to inform forecasts and drive decision-making across country, Regional and Global marketing and finance stakeholders.

- Identify business problems to be solved by applying analytical techniques to business problems

- Exhibit excellence in thought-leadership, problem solving and effective team management

- Build capabilities in the team to independently ideate, conceptualize and develop advanced statistical models and algorithms to infer large quantum of data by using appropriate tools and techniques

- Manage communication with the stakeholders and explain complex analytical solutions and actionable insights to the business stakeholders in a simplified manner

- Manage the entire project in time-bound manner with allocated resources.

People Management :

- Participate in the selection process, manage resources, track, monitor, review and guide performance.

- Provide developmental feedback, suggest training programs and facilitate the developmental process for own team in order to achieve the objectives through an engaged team.

- Drive innovation and creative thinking within the team

- Expected Span of control

- Communication and Collaboration

- Lead the communication & collaborate with Global stakeholders like Global Brand leads, Country marketing / business leads, who are spread across the globe.

- Lead the communication in global multi country / multi-cultural environment.

- Build additional capabilities identified by the developed strategic plan around Therapy area management, advanced analytics, Reporting and dashboards, forecast error measurement, new forecast methods that can bring continuous improvement to CoE's deliverables

- In the discharge of your responsibilities, you will be required to undertake such other jobs as may be assigned to you by the Management from time to time.

Qualification and skills :

- 10+ years of experience working on multiple data sets and developing models or algorithms

- Masters in statistics/mathematics/computer science or other quantitative and analytics domain

- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in ambiguous situation

- Good communication skills and engagement skills for coordinating across teams

- Knowledge of advanced statistical technique and concepts and experience in application

- Expertise on advanced statistical software's like R, SAS or Python

- Knowledge on advanced technologies like machine learning and their real time usage with pros and cons

- Pharmaceutical experience mandatory

- Our Human Health Division maintains a - patient first, profits later- ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Who we are :

- Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA is known as - Merck- in the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico. We are known as - MSD- in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America & Asia Pacific. We are a global biopharmaceutical leader with a diverse portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology, vaccines and animal health products.

- We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With 69,000 employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state of the art laboratories, plants and offices that are designed to Inspire our employees as we learn, develop and grow in our careers. We are proud of our 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world's biggest investors in Research & Development.

What we look for :

- In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come.

- We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

INVENT.

IMPACT.

INSPIRE.

- We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment.

- We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively for the common good. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.