Associate

Axtria - Ingenious Insights; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Axtria - Ingenious Insights in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced life sciences forecaster to develop commercial forecasts for pipeline products and launches. The role emphasizes analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and project management to communicate asset value and identify risks.

You will work with IQVIA, Evaluate, IPD, Kantar, DRG datasets to build demand forecasts, support launch preparations, and deliver analytics that drive business decisions across global markets.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in life sciences/pharma forecasting and data analytics.
• Expertise with a variety of modeling techniques including statistical, patient-flow, simulations, agent-based, and systems dynamics-based approaches.
• Experience forecasting inline, pipeline, and BD&L products/brands with trend-based methods.
• Experience handling pharmaceutical datasets (Rx, APLD, IQVIA, Evaluate, IPD, Kantar, DRG).

Responsibilities

• Build realistic, assumption-driven demand forecasts to support brand strategy.
• Prepare robust forecast assumptions leveraging internal expertise and research.
• Ensure objectivity of forecasts by aligning objectives with forecast accuracy.
• Develop brand volume forecasts to inform strategic and operational planning.
• Document value assessments and their impact on market dynamics and events.
• Support launch plans and post-launch performance tracking with short-term revenue forecasts.

Skills

EPI-based forecasting

Pharma datasets

Forecast modeling

Education

BE / B.Tech / B.Pharma / M.Pharma / M.Tech / MBA

Job description

Job Summary: - This role will be responsible for developing commercial forecasts for pipeline and launching products as well as completing opportunity assessments for life cycle management. This role brings specific therapeutic area in-depth expertise, analytical instinct, strategic thinking, and project management skills to communicate the value assessment of new assets and flag appropriate risks and opportunities

Job Responsibilities

• Build realistic, transparent, and assumption-driven demand forecasts. Challenge assumptions and apply forecasting methodologies to support the brand strategy
• Prepare robust forecast assumptions leveraging expertise and analogs from the in-line Forecasting team and research from the Insights and Analytics team
• Ensure objectivity of brand/therapeutic area forecasts by establishing objectives aligned around forecast accuracy
• Developing brand volume forecasts, both short-term and long-term, to feed into strategic and operational planning processes
• Ensure that value assessment addresses the impact of key market dynamics and internal events, is logically designed and well-documented
• Support launch preparations and guide the teams to set up clear post-launch performance tracking by creating and monitoring the short-term revenue forecasts, comparable to actuals in the future, and recommending adjustments when applicable
• Consistent delivery of analytics that drive informed decision-making, including the definition and development of models to be used in answering business and operational questions
• Adopting and executing new and innovative analytics offerings for untapped opportunities; Enabling automation of routine measurements
• Perform ad-hoc queries for leadership across all functions; be an internal expert and resource
• Maintaining accountability for high quality, timely service delivery of forecasting analytic service requests, including requests for solutions requiring sophisticated statistical and machine learning approaches

Job Requirements

• 4-6 years of experience in Experience working with Life Sciences companies in pharmaceutical forecasting (in branded business)/ data analytics; experience supporting both pipeline and marketed product(s) preferred
• Expertise with a variety of modeling techniques including statistical, patient-flow, simulations, agentbased, and other systems dynamics-based techniques
• Manage & develop patient/epidemiology-based forecasting models for pharma clients
• Project Manager who can lead enablement of global life sciences companies to manage forecasting and/or data & analytics function through Axtria solutions and innovative methodologies
• EPI-based Forecasting for Inline, Pipeline, and BD&L Products/ Brands. Trend-Based Forecasting Experience
• Experience supporting multiple markets globally, Region, and countries. A deeper understanding of disease and Therapy Areas and their application to forecast
• Expertise in handling datasets - IQVIA, Evaluate, IPD, Kantar, DRG etc. Proven experience working with pharmaceutical datasets (Rx, APLD, etc)
• Effective forecast storyboarding, capturing key insights backed by relevant data and Quantitative Analytics, Business Analysis and Analog Analysis

Qualification

• BE/ B. Tech/B. Pharma/M. Pharma/M Tech/MBA

Must have Skills

• EPI-based Forecasting for Inline, Pipeline, and BD&L Products/ Brands. Trend-Based Forecasting

Skills that give you an edge

• Proven experience working with pharmaceutical datasets (Rx, APLD, etc)