Forecasting Manager - Vaccines

GSK site preferred location: Philadelphia Walnut Street, PA.  Minimum 2-3 days on-site per week average is required. 

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to create patient centered, data-driven forecasts and partner with commercial stakeholders to drive growth in life saving vaccines?

If so, then this Forecasting Manager role is for you!

The role of Forecasting Manager sits within the US Vaccines Forecasting team and will maintain accurate and insight driven gross sales and patient forecasts for GSK’s Meningitis and Pediatric Vaccines. This role requires strong analytical and interpersonal skills and ability to utilize a wide variety of forecasting approaches to support commercial priorities, competitive positioning, and supply chain decisions.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to progress YOUR career by building your expertise in forecasting, commercial insights, and pharmaceutical business acumen.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Establish, document, and maintain financial and manufacturing forecasts on a monthly cycle and annually revise Long-Range Forecast, in partnership with global and local Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Commercial Insights teams.

• Maintain SKU level forecasts for portfolio of Meningitis and Pediatric Vaccines in the US (including Puerto Rico)

• Present forecast assumptions, inclusive of risks and opportunities, to multiple management levels

• Ensure accuracy of forecasts through industry standard accuracy and bias metrics; identify corrective actions as appropriate.

• Support US financial submissions and quarterly earnings call, as needed.

• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Commercial Insights, Market Access, and Supply Chain peers on modeling events, communicating issues, and responding to requests from senior leadership.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• BS/BA degree in Finance, Analytics, Statistics, Business, or related area

• 5 years of post-degree experience in the following:

  • Utilizing and maintaining financial, analytics or gross sales forecast models with multiple variables and event modeling.

  • Analyzing financial and/or market data and trends, assessing financial impacts and identifying risks and opportunities.

  • Create/modify reports/dashboards/presentations for forecast cycles providing clear and concise messaging to multiple management levels.

  • Experience in MS Excel working with substantial amounts of data, financial and/or analytical data modeling involving multiple inputs and has demonstrated experience successfully using advanced functions such as pivot tables, charts, and LOOKUP & SUMIF functions.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience in pharma, biotech or alike industry

• Demonstrated communication and presentation skills.

• Proficiency in MS PowerPoint.

• Strong learning agility to build business acumen.

• Proven collaboration skills and able to work effectively across a matrix environment.

• Ability to work independently and prioritize effectively.

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Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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