Respiratory Bio Global/ US Insights/ Forecasting Director

About the role:

The Global / US Forecasting & Insight Director is expected to provide leadership and strategic direction to deliver competitive advantages through the application of end-to-end insights, analytics, and forecasts across both the Global markets to support AstraZeneca’s industry-leading AstraZeneca pipeline. Our mission as a team is to accelerate business impact through insights and capability transformation.  To achieve this, the Global Insights & Forecasting team is tasked with delivering excellence in market research, customer and competitor insights, analytics, and forecasting. 

In addition to strong analytical and forecasting skills, the Global Forecasting Lead should have excellent communication skills with a demonstrated track record of effective business partnership as demonstrated by material business impact and influencing. This position may be required to manage contractors and vendors to complete projects, but will have no direct reports. The candidate will also be required to continuously evaluate new quantitative analytics methods, technologies, and datasets. 

This role works closely with Therapy Area Commercial, CI, Finance, Commercial Excellence, Medical, Market Access and Pricing, and other senior business partners throughout the organisation. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as functional subject matter expert in established market and disease areas of interest to the Global Commercial team. 

• Summarize and present findings through various communication channels; be able to “tell the story” to senior commercial and clinical stakeholders 

• Construct patient-based forecast models in Excel that leverage credibly bold and ambitious data inputs synthesized from a variety of primary and secondary sources, and benchmarked against internal and external analogs 

• Instill and reinforce a culture of continuous improvement, learning, testing, and deployment of new capabilities for the business 

• Access and evaluate appropriate information via a variety of internal and external tools and sources 

• Monitor the external environment to stay up to date on leading analytics and forecasting capabilities, both within and outside of pharma, which can be applied within the organization 

Required experience: 

• Strong revenue forecasting experience utilizing epidemiology-based methodologies 

• Familiarity with medical claims (open or closed) or electronic health record databases, IQVIA Rx and sales data, and other syndicated data. 

• Proficiency in extracting and interpreting insights from large longit