Specialist - Forecasting - Pharmaceutical Industry

Educational Requirements:

- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in a relevant field.

Experience:

- 11 to 14 years of direct pharmaceutical forecasting experience with in-depth knowledge of forecasting techniques, models, and approaches.

- Good understanding of one or more disease areas and how patients move through their respective diagnosis and treatment pathways, including treatment dynamics.

- Experience integrating insights from market research and secondary data analysis into forecast assumptions.

- Experience utilizing a range of data sources and analytics common in the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., IQVIA, claims data, epidemiological data).

- For US forecasting roles, experience with TRx/NBRx/NRx data and methodologies.

- Strong analytical expertise with excellent Excel, financial modeling, and forecasting skills.

- Project management experience, including risk mitigation and managing multiple projects concurrently.

- Ability to build trusted relationships with marketing, analytics, operations, and technology teams.

- Demonstrated experience in problem solving and continuous improvement.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Advanced degree (e.g., PhD, MBA, Masters) preferred.

- Knowledge and experience in advanced statistical forecasting methodologies and applied AI/ML/automation.

- Experience working with Power Apps, especially PowerBI.

- For US forecasting roles, working knowledge of US Market Access and gross-to-net methodologies.