MSD Senior Manager - Forecasting 

India, Maharashtra 

852062716

Job Description

Project planning and management

• Responsible for managing the teams delivering forecasting solutions / forecasts / analytics, using bothstrategic and/or statistical techniques
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders at various levels across country, regional and global to collect and validate information for periodic forecasts, run sensitivities and ad hoc analyses and socialize outputs to drive/support business decisions
• Drive continuous enhancements to evolve the existing forecasting capabilities in terms of value-add, risk/ opportunity/uncertainty and efficiency - identify and elevate key forecasting levers/insights/findings to inform decision making.
• Exhibit excellence in thought-leadership, creativity/innovation and problem solving -independently ideate/design/develop new approaches/methodologies to solution for unstructured/complex business questions, experiment different approaches/framework which uncover bigger issue and/or insights and actionable recommendations.
• Build capabilities in the team to take on further execution of the best approach/framework
• Subject matter expert andgo to person for the area of specialization; consistentlydemonstrate critical and evidence-based thinking andchallenge everyone to ensure highest level of rigor in problem solvingand solution building​

People Management

• Supervise, develop, mentor and coach the team
• 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.

Communication and Collaboration

• Present the synthesized insights and complex business solutions to the business stakeholders in a simplified manner
• 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
• Build and advance the (brand and portfolio) analytics capability, impart knowledge and best practices across teams

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:

• Engineers / Management / Masters in statistics/mathematics with 7+ years of experience in the relevant jobs; with atleast 4 years of experience in Pharma forecasting
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in ambiguous situation
• Good communication skills and engagement skills for coordinating across teams
• Knowledge of advanced statistics is desirable

Current Contingent Workers apply

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Job Posting End Date:07/06/2024

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