Manager - Forecasting

4 days ago

Pune, India MSD Full time

Job Description

Manager - Forecasting

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for managing forecasts for a product/portfolio either individually or with 1-2 associates.

  • Collaboration with Country/Regional/Global stakeholders for validating assumptions

  • Translating therapy area knowledge and complex market dynamics into requirements and communicating to development team

  • Validating forecast assumptions using statistical techniques like Monte Carlo and/or secondary market research

  • Managing projects plans and ensuring timely quality deliverables.

  • Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations.

Qualifications & Skills

  • 3-8 years' experience with Management/Pharma/Engineering background

  • Mandatory Pharma experience

  • Relevant forecasting or data analytics experience

  • Ability to generate ideas to solve vague problems.

  • Should have managed projects end-to-end individually or in team

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • Strong business acumen and awareness of brand, therapy area and market dynamics of the US market or other key markets

  • Experience of communicating in global multi country / multi-cultural environment

  • Basic statistical knowledge

  • Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint

  • Other skillsets (good to have): Spotfire, Tableau, Python, R, SQL

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.  

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Current Employees apply HERE

Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company.  No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. 

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):


Required Skills:

Business Analysis, Innovation, Long Term Planning, Microsoft Excel, Numerical Analysis, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Project Management, Written Communication


Preferred Skills:

Brand Management, Brand Marketing, Brand Strategy, Communication, Creativity (Inactive), Customer Marketing, Digital Analytics, Economic Forecasting, Empathy (Inactive), Financial Forecasting, Market Analysis, Marketing, Marketing Management, Marketing Operations, Market Research, Organizational Behavior, Project Planning, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Sales, Sales Management, Stakeholder Engagement

Job Posting End Date:

09/30/2024

*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.


Job Posting End Date:09/30/2024


A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.


Requisition ID:R302253

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