Associate Director, Forecasting - Vaccines

Job Title: Associate Director, Forecasting

Location: Bridgewater

% Remote working and % of travel expected: Hybrid (At least 2-3 days in office).  Very limited travel

Our Team:

As a health journey partner, we, at Sanofi, are proud that our vaccines can help to protect us and our loved ones from a wide range of severe infectious diseases, at every stage of life. We, as our vaccines global business unit, partner with the public health, medical and scientific communities to improve access to life-protecting vaccines and increase vaccination coverage, while striving to develop new and improved vaccines to enhance health and well-being. The Analytics department, Vaccines in the US is a team of individuals that act as one. We thrive on each other’s success and collaborate with each other on all initiatives. Our primary purpose is to support our Marketing and Sales counterparts to keep the customer in the center of our company vision.

The Associate Director, Forecasting – Vaccines/US will report to the Senior Director, Analytics and will be an integral part of US Vaccines Commercial Operations team. Primary responsibility of the role is to develop, manage & maintain defensible sales forecasts, perform detailed analysis to track brand performance vs. forecast and provide clear commentary to senior management for all aspects impacting sales performance relating to in-line brands and launch products within the U.S Vaccines business. This individual will serve as an expert on the topics of forecasting techniques, methodology and assumptions, and the development of business KPIs.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate closely with Marketing leadership and Head of Finance to align on the overall forecasting processes, deliverables, and timelines for annual and monthly demand & revenue forecast cycles, and with Business Operations colleagues to ensure the latest market insights are reflected in the forecast

• Prepare insightful presentations to communicate forecast approach, assumptions, analysis and recommendations for various sales and financial analysis

• Contribute to the harmonization of forecast methods, models, and presentation formats across various vaccines

• Ensure clear understanding across the various stakeholders for demand evolution by proactively performing analysis to validate demand data, interact with various stakeholders to understand possible deviations, and effectively communicate adjustments / restatements to facilitate most accurate demand performance measurement

• Lead reconciliation of forecasting assumptions between local and global marketing

• Increase operational efficiencies and leverage existing systems to automate forecast reporting processes

• Lead change management throughout organization when new forecasting processes and data sources are analyses, challenged, and incorporated into sales forecasts

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree required in Analytics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering

• Master’s degree preferred in one of the above subjects

• 5+ years of experience performing forecasting, operational / reporting, commercial analytics within the pharmaceutical industry.

OTHER SKILLS:

• Proficiency in applying data science methodologies to complex quantitative problems; experience with programming languages such as SQL, R, Python, or others is a plus

• Excellent analytical and forecasting skills, with demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain short and long-term forecast models; Microsoft Excel proficiency required

• Proven leadership acumen, with well-developed communication & presentation skills

• Proven strategic thinking ability, with deep understanding of the pharmaceutical landscape. Vaccines experience preferred

• Knowledge of working with pharma/vaccine datasets such as IQVIA DDD, Claims, etc.

• Outstanding organizational skills, time management and dealing with conflicting priorities

• Strong interpersonal skills (with demonstrated stakeholder management, conflict management / resolution in group dynamic)

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