Strategic Planning & Forecasting Lead

gsk; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK in Karachi is seeking a Planning & Forecasting Lead to own multi-market planning and forecasting cycles, partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver reliable forecasts, guide resource allocation, and support strategic decision making.

The role demands strong analytics, experience across planning cycles, and ability to coach analysts while driving digital adoption and AI-enabled processes to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience of running a full planning and forecasting cycle across multiple markets, or a market of strategic importance.
• 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.

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 sign-offs
• Analysis: prioritise 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.
• 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

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

Education

University degree in Finance or Business

Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent

Job description

GSK in Karachi is seeking a Planning & Forecasting Lead to own multi-market planning and forecasting cycles, partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver reliable forecasts, guide resource allocation, and support strategic decision making.

The role demands strong analytics, experience across planning cycles, and ability to coach analysts while driving digital adoption and AI-enabled processes to improve efficiency.