Job Purpose
We are looking for a Senior Manager - Planning & Forecasting with solid stakeholder management skills and finance acumen to lead the full monthly and annual planning and forecasting cycle for multiple markets, or a market of strategic importance, within the Planning & Forecasting Hub.
You will be instrumental in guiding 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, while proactively identifying opportunities and highlighting risks.
Key responsibilities
• Own the P&F; promise across your markets 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):
• Reporting: own P&L; and Flash Sales performance commentaries and Price-Volume analysis, ensuring variances to Plan, Last Year and forecast are clearly explained across your markets
• Forecasting:
lead the market forecast update including new product launches, challenge and consolidate Risks & Opportunities, and present at management review
• Planning: lead annual Plan activities, setting the plan calendar and securing submissions and signoffs
• Analysis: priorities and resolve ad hoc business requests, escalating trade-offs where capacity is constrained
• Partner senior in-market and hub stakeholders to reflect a realistic but 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
• Create healthy accountability across your markets, ensuring promises are clear and delivered on time and in full. Navigate the cross-functional matrix and build the internal network, working closely with stakeholders, being both a reliable p
📌 Senior Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 GSK
📍 Bengaluru