Senior Manager - Planning & Forecasting Lead

gsk; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Senior Manager - Planning & Forecasting to lead the full monthly and annual planning and forecasting cycle for key markets. You will guide high-quality, globally aligned forecasts and analyses, partnering with senior stakeholders to balance ambition with risk, while driving efficient, AI-enabled planning processes.

You will coach analysts, simplify processes, and ensure timely, reliable delivery of plans that support shareholder communication and market guidance.

Qualifications

• Experience of running a full planning and forecasting cycle across multiple markets or a market of strategic importance.
• 10 to 15 yrs in planning and forecasting.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into clear, concise commentary for senior stakeholders.
• Experience of coaching or developing others.
• Understanding of digital, AI, automation and financial systems and processes.
• University degree in Finance or Business (or equivalent).
• Ability to connect with and influence senior business stakeholders.
• Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the P&F promise across your markets to drive financial Plan commitments, ensuring forecast reliability and resource allocation.
• Reporting: own P&L and flash sales commentary and price-volume analysis with clear explanations of variances.
• Forecasting: lead market forecast updates including product launches and Risks & Opportunities.
• Planning: lead annual Plan activities, calendar and signoffs.
• Analysis: handle ad hoc requests and escalate trade-offs where capacity is constrained.
• Partner with senior in-market and hub stakeholders to reflect a realistic but ambitious outlook and identify interventions.
• Build cross-functional accountability and nurture internal networks with stakeholders.
• Coach Planning & Forecasting analysts to develop modelling and analytical capability.
• Drive agile, standardized ways of working with AI adoption in planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

Job description

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Senior Manager - Planning & Forecasting with strong stakeholder management skills and finance acumen to lead the full monthly and annual planning and forecasting cycle for multiple markets, or a market of strategic importance, within the Planning & Forecasting Hub.

You will be instrumental in guiding progress to our ambition by generating high quality, efficient, globally aligned forecasts, plans and analysis that give management confidence, support decision making and feed shareholder communication, while proactively identifying opportunities and highlighting risks.

Key responsibilities

• Own the P&F promise across your markets to drive financial Plan commitments, ensuring reliability of forecast to support market guidance and smart resource allocation (P&F Standard scope, agreed exceptions and analysis requests):
• Reporting: own P&L and Flash Sales performance commentaries and Price-Volume analysis, ensuring variances to Plan, Last Year and forecast are clearly explained across your markets
• Forecasting: lead the market forecast update including new product launches, challenge and consolidate Risks & Opportunities, and present at management review
• Planning: lead annual Plan activities, setting the plan calendar and securing submissions and signoffs
• Analysis: priorities and resolve ad hoc business requests, escalating trade-offs where capacity is constrained
• Partner senior in-market and hub stakeholders to reflect a realistic but ambitious outlook, with potential swings clearly articulated. Provide insightful intelligence on business performance drivers, anticipate risks and propose interventions to meet targets. Challenge the business to produce stretching yet achievable forecasts
• Create healthy accountability across your markets, ensuring promises are clear and delivered on time and in full. Navigate the cross-functional matrix and build the internal network, working closely with stakeholders, being both a reliable partner and an effective customer of the services you depend on
• Coach and develop Planning & Forecasting analysts, building modelling and analytical capability across the team, whether or not they report to you directly
• Simplify how we work and drive globally aligned ways of working. Reduce non-standard work, and continuously improve agility and efficiency in planning, budgeting and forecasting through digital fluency and the adoption of AI in standard ways of working
• Build healthy, trustworthy relationships and role model a ONE Finance mindset

Basic qualifications / experience

• Experience of running a full planning and forecasting cycle across multiple markets, or a market of strategic importance
• 10 to 15yrs in planning and forecasting.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn data into clear, concise commentary for senior stakeholders
• Experience of coaching or developing others
• Understanding of digital, AI, automation and financial systems and processes.
• University degree in Finance or Business (or equivalent)
• Ability to connect with and influence senior business stakeholders
• Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent experience

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Skills

Business Forecasting, Business Reporting Tools, Critical Thinking, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Digital Fluency, Financial Controlling, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Influencing Without Authority, Stakeholder Management

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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