Senior Manager, Global Business Development Forecasting

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .

Job Description

The Pipeline Commercial Strategy (PCS) and Corporate Business and Strategy Office (CBSO) teams engage in the evaluation of Business Development (BD) opportunities with an aim to bolster AbbVie’s internal pipeline with external potential.

The primary role of the Senior Manager, Global Business Development Forecasting, is to support forecasting and commercial analytics activities in support of Oncology pipeline BD opportunities. This role will partner directly with business development colleagues in PCS and CBSO to develop, inform, and present commercial assessments for external opportunities.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Develop market assessments, sales forecasts, and P&L’s for BD opportunities
• Actively participate on BD project teams - Evaluate both revenue potential and commercial costs required, ensuring consistency with internal assumptions and gaining alignment on key assumptions with internal stakeholders, as appropriate
• Incorporate epidemiology data (prevalence, incidence, relevant patient segmentation) in BD forecasts
• Collaborate with marketing analytics to drive primary research activities, seek robust secondary data, and utilize key opinion leader input to inform sales forecasts
• Coordinate with market access & pricing to evaluate pricing potential and to understand pricing pressures and opportunities
• Works with manager and business partners to ensure market insights are incorporated in forecasts.
• Develop an informed perspective on marketplace dynamics by reviewing market research, industry trends, study results, competitive profiles, internal assessments, analyst reports, and other data and literature sources
• Conduct risk and opportunity modelling, scenario planning, and other robust analyses as agreed with manager and business partners.
• Present forecasts and key assumptions to key business partners and finance leaders
• Coordinate with BD finance and deal leads to ensure BD deal valuations incorporate latest thinking and aligned commercial perspective on each external opportunity

This role reports to the Associate Director, Global Business Development Forecasting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant forecasting, market analytics, or finance experience within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences consulting industries.
• Experience in providing marketing analytics and forecasting analyses for Neuroscience, Immunology, Oncology, or other specialized therapeutic areas
• Experience building forecast models and conducting analyses for decision support
• Demonstrated experience in the incorporation and communication of analytics (primary and secondary data) for strategic decision support
• Ability to present forecast insights to key business partners.
• Self-motivated with experience planning, prioritizing, and managing multiple projects across multiple teams while delivering results on-time
• Highly creative, resourceful, self-motivated, and intellectually curious with the ability to independently execute and complete complex analyses as aligned with manager and business partners.
• Team player with a positive, flexible, can-do attitude that works well with urgency and has a strong record of developing and leading solutions to issues
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities
• MBA or other advanced degree is preferred

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Preference for experience in BD/pipeline forecasting for specialized therapeutic areas, such as Neuroscience, Immunology or Oncology
• Strong analytic and communication skills
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization
• Solid strategic thinking skills and ability to influence
• Ability to champion the AbbVie Leadership Attributes

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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