Pharma Forecasting- Consultant/ Sr Consultant/ Project Manager

PharmaACE; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 8,596,000 - 14,327,000; Full time

Job summary

PharmaACE, a growing Global Healthcare Consulting Firm, offers a Pune-based or onshore opportunity with remote options. The role focuses on analytics-driven forecasting, market insights, and strategic consulting within the life sciences sector.

You will lead and coordinate complex engagements, develop financial models, and collaborate with US/European teams to inform brand planning and lifecycle management decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's in Pharma or life sciences, or engineering/ MBA.
• 4–10 years forecasting and commercial analytics experience.
• Experience building financial models (market sizing, sales, profit forecasts) in Excel.
• Expertise in modelling strategies in collaboration with life sciences teams.
• Experience in CI, analytics, and market research; identify business levers.
• Strong strategic thinking and big-picture perspective.
• US/European pharma exposure is a plus.
• Ability to balance conflicting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Play an integral role in executing analytics/consulting engagements through effective and efficient project management.
• Generate forecasts, analysis and actionable insights that lead to strategic and financial goals for our clients.
• Manage and coordinate complex consulting engagements through strong client and people management, subject matter expertise, communication skills, and the ability to draw conclusions and recommendations from a variety of evidence.
• Operate effectively as part of a global team, by participating and contributing to client discussions and proactively helping them with their decisions in creating and/or validating assumptions.
• Provide robust competitive assessments and insights that inform key decision-making processes for clients such as strategic brand planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management.
• Perform in-depth (secondary) market research and data analysis to derive understanding of the disease and patient segments based on client requirements.
• Analyse and integrate primary research and secondary data with other market knowledge to draw inferences and conclusions.
• Identify risks and opportunities for the business and support key decisions on business strategy with customer and market insights.
• Leverage all relevant data such as DRG/IQVIA to provide insights into forecast assumptions.

Skills

Forecasting & analytics

Market research

Strategic thinking

Prioritization

US/Europe pharma experience

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Pharma/Life Sciences or Engineering/MBA

Job description

Job Location- Pune or Onshore Opportunity (US / Portugal)

Location flexibility available. Remote opportunities may be offered depending on the candidate's profile, experience, and business requirements.

PharmaACE is a growing Global Healthcare Consulting Firm, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Our expert teams of Business Analysts, based across the US, Canada, Europe, and India, provide Analytics and Business Solutions using our worldwide delivery models for a wide range of clients. Our clients include established, multinational BioPharma leaders and innovators, as well as entrepreneurial firms on the cutting edge of science. We have deep expertise in Forecasting, Business Analytics, Competitive Intelligence, Sales Analytics, and the Analytics Centre of Excellence Model. Our wealth of therapeutic area experience cuts across Oncology, Immuno- science, CNS, CV-Met, and Rare Diseases. We support our clients' needs in Primary Care, Specialty Care, and Hospital business units, and we have managed portfolios in the Biologics space, Branded Pharmaceuticals, Generics, APIs, Diagnostics, and Packaging & Delivery Systems.

Responsibilities:

• Play an integral role in executing analytics/consulting engagements through effective and efficient project management.


• Generate forecasts, analysis and actionable insights that lead to the achievement of strategic and financial goals for our clients.


• Manage and coordinate complex consulting engagements through strong client and people management, subject matter expertise, communication skills (both written and verbal), and the ability to draw conclusions and recommendations from a variety of evidence.


• Operate effectively as part of a global team, by participating and contributing to client discussions and proactively helping them with their decisions in creating and/or validating assumptions. Provide robust competitive assessments and insights that inform key decision-making processes for clients such as strategic brand planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management.


• Perform in-depth (secondary) market research and data analysis to derive understanding of the disease and patient segments based on client requirements.


• Analyse and integrate primary research and secondary data with other market knowledge to draw inferences and conclusions.


• Identify risks and opportunities for the business and support key decisions on business strategy with customer and market insights.


• Leverage all relevant data such as DRG/IQVIA to provide insights into forecast assumptions.

Leadership:

• Will be responsible for overall leadership, talent development, skill advancement, and engagement and retention of talent in the team (in case acting in the capacity of a team lead).


• Foster learning mindset in the team to proactively develop research and story-telling skills, leveraging multiple sources of data to answer business questions.


• Develop new capabilities leveraging new sources of data and methods that include segment- level analysis, etc.


• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to build effective relationships to create win- win engagement models.


• Mentor/Guide team members who can benefit from your expertise and experience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters in Pharma / other life sciences background (Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, etc.) or bachelor’s in engineering / B. Tech or Masters in Business administration.


• Minimum 4- 10 years relevant forecasting and commercial analytics experience. Experience building financial models (e.g., market sizing, sales, and profit forecasts) using Microsoft Excel and other tools.


• In-depth expertise in developing, implementing, and managing holistic strategies for modelling (design, development, validation, calibration, documentation, approval, implementation, monitoring and reporting) in collaboration with life sciences teams.


• Broad experience in key functional areas of CI, analytics, and market research including the ability to understand and identify key business levers.


• Strong strategic skills including ability to see the big picture, along with conceptual and out-of-the-box thinking.


• Work experience in the US/European pharma industry is a plus.


• Ability to balance conflicting priorities.