IMS Forecast Specialist II

Syneos Health; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a detail-oriented IMS Forecast Specialist II to develop, maintain, and analyze project forecasts that support operational and financial decisions. You’ll collaborate with Clinical Operations, Finance, and Project Management to ensure accuracy and identify risks.

Responsibilities include building forecast models, monitoring timelines, creating executive summaries, and driving forecasting process improvements.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in forecasting, business analytics, resource planning, clinical operations, project management, or related areas.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, Power Query, XLOOKUP / VLOOKUP.
• Experience with forecasting models and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project/study forecasts using operational and financial data.
• Analyze forecast assumptions, trends, and variances against actual performance.
• Monitor enrollment, milestones, site activations, and project timelines to improve forecast accuracy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather forecast inputs and validate assumptions.
• Support monthly and quarterly forecasting cycles, governance reviews, and management reporting.
• Identify forecast risks, data quality issues, and potential financial impacts.
• Conduct scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
• Create dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to support business decisions.
• Drive process improvements and forecasting automation initiatives.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Forecasting

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Business Administration

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Power Query

Job description

IMS Forecast Specialist II Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape. Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Why Syneos Health

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

IMS Forecast Specialist II

Location: Hyderabad, India

Role Overview We are seeking a detail-oriented Forecast Specialist to develop, maintain, and analyze project and study forecasts that support operational and financial decision-making. The role requires close collaboration with Clinical Operations, Finance, Project Management, and cross-functional teams to ensure forecast accuracy, identify risks, and provide actionable business insights.

• Develop and maintain project/study forecasts using operational and financial data.
• Analyze forecast assumptions, trends, and variances against actual performance.
• Monitor enrollment, milestones, site activations, and project timelines to improve forecast accuracy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather forecast inputs and validate assumptions.
• Support monthly and quarterly forecasting cycles, governance reviews, and management reporting.
• Identify forecast risks, data quality issues, and potential financial impacts.
• Conduct scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
• Create dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to support business decisions.
• Drive process improvements and forecasting automation initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in forecasting, business analytics, resource planning, clinical operations, project management, or related areas.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, Power Query, XLOOKUP / VLOOKUP.
• Experience with forecasting models and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Clinical Research, CRO, Biotechnology, or pharmaceutical industries.
• Knowledge of enrollment forecasting, investigator grants forecasting, project financial management, and resource planning.
• Familiarity with CTMS, EDC, Oracle, Power BI, or similar forecasting platforms.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment.

Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Discover what our Syneos Health colleagues already know: work here matters everywhere. Work alongside the brightest minds in the biopharmaceutical industry taking down walls and removing barriers to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We are strategic thinkers who actively seek different perspectives, whether across offices or across oceans. Because we solve some of the toughest challenges facing the most prestigious healthcare companies today, you'll gain exposure and be supported with comprehensive resources including emerging technologies, data, science and knowledge sharing. The diversification and breadth of Syneos Health creates a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. We’re a growing, global company dedicated to advancing our talent past their initial role. Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career in which you’re guaranteed to: Partner with the most diverse team of experts in the industry. From the top down, our people are inspiring. Everyone has a voice and is encouraged to use it. Work in specialized Syneos Health teams that are therapeutically or functionally aligned for expert collaboration. We assemble clinical teams where everyone, from CRAs to senior management, is skilled in the same therapeutic area or customer teams. With this structure, everyone on your team speaks the same language and can deliver unique insights into the therapeutic environment and patient population. We are partners with purpose. We integrate seamlessly with our customers and do what’s best for their success. Our people provide the brilliant ideas, valuable insights and endless energy that accelerates the impact of life changing therapies worldwide.