Job Description
Associate Director – Strategic Forecasting Respiratory & Rare Disease
Associate Director – Strategic Forecasting Respiratory & Rare Disease is a senior leadership role responsible for delivering forward-looking, data-driven insights that shape key business decisions across the pharmaceutical asset lifecycle.
This role serves as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, integrating deep therapeutic area expertise, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled methodologies to inform portfolio strategy, investment decisions, and market planning across inline and pipeline assets.
Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
1. Strategic Leadership and Vision
- Define and drive the future state of forecasting, including methodologies, tools, and integration of advanced analytics and AI
- Evolve forecasting from a reporting function to a strategic advisory capability, focused on decision impact
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that enhance forecasting capabilities and business outcomes
2. Forecasting and Strategic Insight Generation
Lead development and delivery of strategic forecasts and insights across multiple complex assets or therapy areas
Deliver:
- Scenario planning and simulation (what-if analysis, sensitivities, risk/prospect assessment)
- Portfolio-level insights spanning inline products, pipeline assets, and business development opportunities
- Robust assumption frameworks, incorporating internal and external data sources (epidemiology, competitive intelligence, market dynamics)
Inform:
- Launch and commercialization strategy
- Lifecycle management
- Long-range and portfolio planning
3. Therapeutic Area and Pharmaceutical Expertise
Develop and apply deep therapeutic area expertise (e.g., oncology, vaccines, specialty pharma or other disease areas) to inform forecasting assumptions and insights
Incorporate understanding of:
- Disease epidemiology and patient flow
- Treatment paradigms and evolving standards of care
- Competitiv
📌 Associate Director, Strategic Forecasting Respiratory (Pune)
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