Junior Associate - Forecasting 

Job Title: Junior Associate - Forecasting

Career Level - C1/C2

Introduction to role

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? As a Junior Associate in Forecasting at AstraZeneca, you'll have the opportunity to make a direct impact on patients by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. Join us at Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore, where you'll work in a dynamic and results-oriented environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to inspire change and innovation. With a hybrid work model, you'll enjoy the flexibility of working both remotely and in the office, ensuring a balanced approach to your professional life.

Accountabilities

As a Forecast Junior Associate, you will collaborate closely with the GIBEx/GA&I Forecast Leader and Commercial teams to develop brand forecasts for strategic brands and early assets. Your role involves understanding therapeutic areas, developing product-specific forecast models, and maintaining up-to-date models that reflect current data and assumptions. You'll identify key business issues impacting forecasts, incorporate primary research results, and define forecasting processes. Additionally, you'll develop forecasts using patient-based models, ensuring alignment with business partners across various departments.

Essential Skills/Experience

• 1+ years of direct Pharmaceutical forecasting experience with an in-depth knowledge of forecasting techniques, models and approaches
• Good understanding of one or more disease areas with experience in rare diseases/OBU including how patients move through their respective diagnosis and treatment pathways, including treatment dynamics
• Experience integrating insights from market research and secondary data analysis into forecast assumptions
• Experience applying a range of data sources and analytics involving standard data in the Pharmaceutical industry – e.g. IQVIA (MIDAS, DDD NPA, Monthly Xponent), claims data (Truven, Marketscan), epidemiological data, etc. For US forecasting, experience with TRx / NBRx / NRx data and methodologies
• Strong analytical expertise; excellent Excel, financial modelling and forecasting skills
• Strong written and verbal communication

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Advanced degree preferred (e.g., PhD, MBA, Masters)
• Knowledge and experience in sophisticated statistical forecast methodologies and applied AI / ML / automation
• Experience working with Power Apps, specifically PowerBI
• For US forecasting, proven understanding of US Market Access and gross-to-net

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

AstraZeneca is where technology meets an inclusive approach to cross international boundaries and develop a leading ecosystem. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining brand new science with leading digital technology platforms and data. Our diverse team works cross-functionally at scale, uncovering new solutions and driving simplicity to make a real difference. With investment behind us, there's no slowing us down as we strive to become a truly data-led enterprise.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now to join our team and be part of something bigger!