GCL: D1
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn complex data into forecasts that shape decisions for life-changing medicines? As Senior Analyst - Forecasting based at Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore, you will partner closely with commercial and finance leaders to translate market signals into clear revenue, volume and patient outlooks for strategic brands and early assets across top markets. Working a 2 PM - 11 PM IST hybrid schedule, you will operate in sync with global collaborators to influence decisions at pace.
You will own robust, defensible forecast models that set expectations for brand performance and inform investment, supply and access strategies. How will you bring transparency to uncertainty, illuminate risks and opportunities, and guide strategy from launch through lifecycle? Your analysis will directly support planning and prioritization that ultimately benefits patients.
Accountabilities:
Forecasting Excellence: Deliver timely, visible demand forecasts for key markets and leading brands, documenting assumptions,



confidence levels and robustness to support decision-making.
Model Development: Build and maintain product-specific short- and long-term forecast models, including patient-based models for assigned therapeutic areas, ensuring they reflect current data, information and assumptions.
Insight Integration: Incorporate findings from primary research and secondary data into assumptions; run sensitivity analyses on key variables to identify risks, opportunities and ranges.
Collaborator Partnership: Align forecast assumptions and analytical assessments with Marketing, Sales, Commercial Access and Pricing, Finance and Sales Operations; expertly defend methodology and outputs to cross-functional teams.
New Product Introduction: Develop short- and long-term volume forecasts for recent launches to foster strategic and operational planning processes.
S&OP; and Operations: For US forecasting, participate in the monthly S&OP; process, submit volume inputs, and d

📌 Senior Analyst (Bengaluru)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Bengaluru