Teva Director Forecasting 

United States, New Jersey 

962957547

• Lead cross-functionally each forecasting cycle – long-range planning, annual operational planning, quarterly forecast updates, etc.
• Establish efficient process to drive cross-functional, brand leadership, and senior leadership alignment on key assumptions for each forecasting cycle.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to ensure evidence-based approach to key forecasting assumptions.
• Drive efforts to bring appropriate analogues/historical knowledge to project impact of promotional efforts, market access changes, competitive events, scientific developments, regulatory evolution, etc.
• Proactively identify opportunities and risks and communicate effectively across organization
• Help establish culture of positive collaboration towards common vision and strong accountability.
• Help shape innovation that will drive performance towards financial goals.
• Develop models for sales trending, forecasting, business planning, and long-range planning.
• Provide forecast outputs to Finance, Marketing, Sales Operations, and Supply Planners for use in official financial forecasts, sales quotas and incentive comp, and supply plan forecasts.
• Support the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process reviews.
• Develop new forecasting tools and optimize existing models. Share and engage with all region’s best practices in Forecasting, tools, and technology.
• Triangulate forecasting models based on alternative approaches including trends/events and bottom-up modelling.
• Work cross-functionally to bring appropriate analogues/historical knowledge to project impact of promotional efforts, market access changes, competitive events, scientific developments, regulatory evolution, etc.

Education/Certification/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in business, finance, analytics, economics, or related field. MBA or advanced degree in analytics/statistics preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of pharmaceutical or healthcare industry experience. Inline/pipeline forecasting preferred. (Data Analytics, Consulting, Investment Banking, and Equity Research backgrounds also encouraged to apply).
• Extensive experience leading planning cycles in commercial, forecasting, or analytical roles.
• Proven ability to manage forecasting/analytics/planning for a portfolio of products.
• Experience building effective complex cross-functional collaborations.
• Proven ability to drive innovation and help deliver on strong performance goals.
  

Leadership Behaviors:

• Enterprise mindset focused on overall commercial success
• Collaborative and agile philosophy focused on problem solving and innovation
• Leads in an ethical, responsible, and transparent way
• Fosters communication and alignment with key stakeholders
• Operates with a sense of urgency and is accountable to people and business
• Supports a caring and high-performing culture
  

Key Capabilities:

• Possesses strong business acumen, and the ability to manage multiple priorities, processes, timelines, and expectations across stakeholder groups
• Strong technical skills to build forecasting tools, leverage secondary data and rollout to US Innovative Medicines team.
• Industry knowledge, understanding of regulatory environment, and good grasp of access dynamics.
• Has the intellectual curious and technical skills to go beyond the numbers
• Demonstrated ability to process complex information and summarize it in writing and / or verbally; employs active listening skills
  

Travel Requirements:

• Approximately 10-15% travel throughout the US, which may include weekend and overnight and periodic international travel.

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