Job Purpose

Are you energized by a finance role that allows you to lead a team, build highly effective business partnerships with senior stakeholders, grow your network and add real value to the business and your career?

We are looking for a Planning & Forecasting Manager with solid leadership skills and finance acumen to lead & build team capabilities within the Planning & Forecasting Hub, own the P&F; promise for your sub-region and partner Finance Directors and leaders.

In this role you will build a high performing team with global reach. Success in the role requires the ability to lead, think critically, create accountability and influence senior stakeholders. You will be instrumental in managing the team to guide progress to our ambition by generating high quality, efficient, globally aligned forecasts, plans and analysis that give management confidence, support decision making and feed shareholder communication.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the team,



with reporting line management of the analysts for the markets whose results roll up to the sub-region

• Own the P&F; promise of teams across your sub-region to drive financial Plan commitments, ensuring reliability of forecast to support market guidance and smart resource allocation (P&F; Standard scope, agreed exceptions and analysis requests)

• Planning and Forecasting partner to the sub-region Finance Head

• Supervise the development, alignment, and communication of plan, forecasts, core commercial cycle and management information

• Partner senior in-market and hub stakeholders to reflect a realistic and ambitious outlook, with potential swings clearly articulated. Provide insightful intelligence on business performance drivers, anticipate risks and propose interventions to meet targets. Challenge the business to produce stretching yet achievable forecasts

• Simplify how we work and drive conformity. Embed change and work with the team to keep improving how we plan and fo

📌 Associate Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 GSK
📍 Bengaluru