Associate Director, Forecasting – Systemic Mastocytosis (SM)

About the role

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing Progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Commercial team, Finance, and other cross-functional partners to develop, document, and communicate accurate patient / volume / revenue forecasts for annual long-term Strategic Planning & Budget cycles, bi-annual medium-term forecast updates, and monthly near-term Rolling Forecast updates.
• Cook up with Finance business partners and forecasters in other therapeutic areas to coordinate forecast cycle deliverables and promote harmonization across assets & functions.
• In partnership with Analytics & Finance colleagues, provide key end-of-month closing deliverables (i.e., price / volume & demand / inventory analyses).
• Provide monthly updates to Commercial leadership on performance and near-term forecast outlook, integrating latest actuals, analytics, Market Research, CI, etc.
• Support model enhancements to ensure forecasts for in-line & launch products reflect strategic direction of each brand (e.g., segmentation, patient flow, etc.).
• Collaborate with Market Research to plan & design studies that provide key forecast inputs (e.g., demand study / conjoint exercises).
• Partner with Finance and Market Access to incorporate latest GTN and access assumptions, conduct payer mix analyses, and generate price / volume waterfalls.
• Leverage resources such as analogue analyses & external forecasts (e.g., syndicated / analyst reports) to pressure-test and refine forecast assumptions.
• Work with Global forecasting to ensure that US forecast deliverables align to Global guidance and properly integrate with Global forecast aggregation process.
• Work with Finance and Demand Planning to ensure the most appropriate forecast (by SKU) is delivered for monthly supply chain planning activities.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Patient Support Services and Finance to assess the value of proposed initiatives and / or risks posed by market events; deliver ad-hoc analyses that leverage forecast models to answer key business questions.
• Collaborate with Data Management, Analytics, and external data providers to conduct periodic reviews of key model inputs to ensure forecast accuracy.
• Coach junior team members for onboarding, upskilling and Sanofi specific processes / data.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MS, MD, PhD) preferred
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical/biotech forecasting (experience may be gained at a manufacturer OR at a life sciences consulting firm specializing in pharma/biotech forecasting)
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining Excel-based forecast models is required
• Strong business acumen, with well-developed communication & presentation skills
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry data sources (e.g., IQVIA patient-level data, syndicated reports, specialty pharmacy data) and payer/health insurance environment
• Excellent project management skills, able to deftly balance multiple priorities
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment with many cross-functional partners

Qualifications

• Experience in relevant therapeutic areas (Rare Disease, Oncology, Hematology) is preferred
• Programming languages (VBA, SQL, R, Python, etc.) are preferred
• Proficiency with cloud-based data warehouse/analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) is preferred

Skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, comfortable with ambiguity, and with a track record of delivering exceptional results
• Authentic, humble team-player with a strong desire to learn & develop new skills
• Excellent project management skills, able to deftly balance multiple priorities
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment with many cross-functional partners to understand and influence key business decisions

Benefits

Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

Pay

Compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience.

Schedule

Not specified.