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:
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
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 prospects
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
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
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