Manager

Axtria - Ingenious Insights; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Axtria - Ingenious Insights in Bengaluru, India seeks an experienced Life Sciences forecasting professional to develop commercial forecasts for pipeline and launching products, and to assess opportunities for lifecycle management. The role combines domain expertise, analytical rigor, and project management to communicate value and identify risks and opportunities.

Responsibilities include managing onshore stakeholders, defining algorithms, building forecast models, and delivering client-ready

Qualifications

• 7-12 years of experience in Life Sciences pharma forecasting and analytics.
• Experience supporting pipeline and marketed products; specialty or rare disease exposure preferred.
• Expertise with various forecasting modeling techniques (statistical, simulations, system dynamics).
• Experience handling pharma datasets (Rx, APLD) and related datasets.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders and ensure delivery aligned with business needs.
• Define algorithms, break down problems, and run analyses with the project team.
• Deliver client-ready analytical solutions and forecasting narratives.
• Build and challenge forecast assumptions to ensure accuracy and transparency.
• Develop brand and portfolio volume forecasts for strategic and operational planning.

Skills

Forecasting

Life Sciences

Pharma Forecasting

Demand Modeling

Analytical Thinking

Tools

IQVIA

Evaluate

IPD

Kantar

DRG

Job description

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

• Effectively manage the client/ onshore stakeholders, as per the business needs, to ensure successful business delivery.
• Work closely with the project manager to define the algorithm, break down the problem into execution steps, and run the analysis
• The delivery role will include project scoping, solution design, execution, and communication of the analysis in the client-ready formats
• 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
• 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
• Supports client strategy to ensure business and compliance needs are met
• Coordinate and manage subordinates, facilitate interdepartmental communication, and allocate tasks and resources as needed
• Guide and advise the modeling and capabilities team as a Subject Matter Expertise on various technologies, solutions, and capabilities to help set up industry-leading practice

Job Requirements

• 7-12 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; experience in Specialty or Rare Disease, 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