Forecasting Manager – General Medicines Business Unit
This role supports the US General Medicines Forecasting team within US Commercial Finance to establish and maintain accurate and insight driven gross sales and patient forecasts in close collaboration with a broad spectrum of functions within the US. This role requires strong analytical skills and a wide variety of methodological approaches to forecasting as well as in-depth understanding of the US pharmaceutical market dynamics.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to build your expertise in forecasting, commercial insights, and pharmaceutical business acumen to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following…
Establish, document, and maintain in-line products financial and manufacturing volume forecasts and annually revise Long-Range Forecast, in partnership with stakeholders.
Maintain SKU level forecasts for General Medicines brands.
Evaluate US market trends, competitor product landscape and competitive positioning as part of US Forecast development.
Develop, document and present US Forecast, assumptions, opportunities, and risks, to multiple management levels.
Ensure accuracy of forecasts through industry standard accuracy and bias metrics; identify corrective actions as appropriate.
Support US financial submissions and quarterly earnings call, as needed.
Collaborate and partner effectively with various stakeholders across the enterprise, including Marketing, Commercial Insight & Analytics and Managed Market teams, support senior management requests.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
BS/BA degree in Finance, Analytics, Statistics, Business, or related area
5 years of post-degree experience in the following:
Utilizing and maintaining financial, analytics or gross sales forecast models with multiple variables and event modeling.
Analyzing market data and trends, assessing financial/commercial impacts and identifying risks and opportunities.
Create/modify reports/dashboards/presentations for forecast cycles
Proficiency in MS Excel working with substantial amounts of data, financial and/or analytical data modeling involving multiple inputs.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Experience providing clear and concise messaging to multiple management levels.
Proficiency in MS PowerPoint
Strong learning agility to build business acumen.
Demonstrated communication and presentation skills.
Proven collaboration skills and able to work effectively across a matrix environment.
Ability to work independently and prioritize effectively.
Experience in pharma, biotech or alike
Familiarity and experience using digital capabilities to enhance automation and standardization.
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Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
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