Global Forecasting Leader - CVRM

Location: Wilmington, DE | Cambridge, UK

This role is reserved for someone who has a deep strategic forecasting and quantitative technical skills combined with superior communication skills. As such, those who will qualify for this position are both technically sound and have the ability to be a proactive internal consultant, adding value to AstraZeneca's commercial organization beyond their analytical prowess through their understanding of secondary data, industry knowledge, and track record of innovative and impactful decision support.

Typical Accountabilities:

• Manage forecast processes and forecast tools.

• Proactive identification of portfolio and brand risks and opportunities, and strategies for how to address them to deliver business success.

• Ensuring objectivity of brand/therapeutic area forecasts of internal and external opportunities through establishing objectives aligned around forecast accuracy.

• Monitors the external environment to stay up to date on latest therapeutic area research and clinical development, as well as competitor landscape

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

• Partnership with GMAP (Global Market Access and Pricing) and Finance to understand market access and price impact, and support development of P&L for the evaluation of the opportunity

• Develop a deep understanding of internal customers' data and analytical needs focusing on the customer-facing data

• Champion the use of local customer insight in strategic and resourcing decisions across the business.

• Access appropriate information via a variety of tools and sources

• Summarize and present findings through various communication channels

• 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.)

• Demonstrate a high level of understanding of the points of integration of our work and that of our colleagues.

• Ability to work with multiple countries to incorporate local insights.

Essential for the role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

• 8+ years of analytical experience, 3 years in Health Care Industry including experience in product forecasting.  In-depth knowledge of forecasting techniques and use of different forecast models and approaches.

• Experience in building, deploying, and embedding capabilities into an organization.

• Experience utilising a range of analytics involving standard data in the Pharmaceutical Industry e.g. IQVIA (LAAD, & MIDAS), and epidemiological data (Decision Resources, Kantar, etc.)

• Strong understanding of primary market research, advanced analytics, and competitive intelligence.

• Reportable accomplishments around converting derived insight into strategic guidance and developing this skill among direct reports

• Exceptional business acumen, strategic thinking and understanding of sales and marketing business practices

• Entrepreneurial mindset to impact leadership and high emotional intelligence

• Strong ability to influence laterally and vertically

• Excellent financial modelling and forecasting skills

• Strong market research and analytical expertise,

• Strong written and verbal communication

Desirable:

• Advanced degree (e.g., PhD / MBA / Masters in areas such as Statistics/Decision Sciences)

• Preferred 5 years’ experience in Global Pharma Industry, advising decisions on major drivers of product success, drug development candidate process and Health Care environment.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.