Manager, Forecasting Job Description
Manager, forecasting
provides performance summary reports which combine the available secondary market data sources such as IQVIA MIDAS, IQVIA local and activity data highlighting deviations on the KPI's agreed across the spectrum of sales, market share, activity, forecasting and brand equity.
Manager, Forecasting Duties & Responsibilities
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Work with Marketing & Sales Comm
Innovate new services and tools together with planning managers and other internal customers
Implement, deploy, and maintain the services and tools
Maintain your and your team’s theoretical competencies and practical knowledge of leading edge tools
Develop and present Monthly, Quarterly, Annual, Long Range, and ad hoc forecast plans
Weekly and monthly updates to net revenue estimates and associated report-out to senior management, including customer / market developments as needed
Own the end Market forecast and associated analysis / report-out within respective region through engagement with third party analysts, Sales, and Marketing
Support and coordinate Marketing's long-term strategic planning
Drive Marketing departments to complete required analysis within prescribed timing, leveraging standard tools provided by Business Process Manager
Beginning with the handoff from the Merchandising team, manage the seasonal consensus demand and inventory planning processes for all categories - by analyzing sales projections, demand plans and capacity constraints, partnering with the Forecasting Director to draw conclusions and communicate relevant issues to the organization (Sales, Finance, Merchandising, Product, DTC, Supply Planning) throughout the seasonal cycle
Manager, Forecasting Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Manager, Forecasting
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Education for Manager, Forecasting
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Employers hiring for the manager, forecasting job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, Statistics, Engineering, MBA, Mathematics, Science, Business/Administration
Skills for Manager, Forecasting
Desired skills for manager, forecasting include:
IMS data
SQL
Excel
IQVIA data
Commonly used biopharmaceutical industry databases
Competitive environment and potential impact on product development and commercialization strategy
Forecasting inputs and structure
Global access and reimbursement policies
Group Benefits
Group Retirement Services
Desired experience for manager, forecasting includes:
5+ years of analytical experience including financial modeling and forecasting
Credit Card industry experience preferred
Proficiency in data mining and data modeling procedures
General understanding of account principles or accounting experience preferred
BA/BS degree required in Stats/Math/Econ/ Business
Knowledge of modeling software and computational programming
Manager, Forecasting Examples
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Manager, Forecasting Job Description
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Our company is looking for a manager, forecasting. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, forecasting
- Define processes and develop the team’s systems expertise to build both short-term and long-term demand projections, to develop statistical forecasting processes to inform strategic planning and seasonal merchandising efforts
- Hire, train, develop, and maximize retention for the team of analysts
- In partnership with the Merchandising team, manage and report on global historical demand data to encourage cross-functional adherence to seasonal goals, including SKU counts, buy efficiencies, forecast accuracy, and NP (No Production due to low volume) rates
- Inform the inventory management process through reporting and analysis of projected seasonal excess inventory
- Create a fun, dynamic, high-performing work environment for the Forecasting & Work Force Management teams
- Provide leadership, clear direction and continuous guidance for the Operations Forecasting & Workforce Management teams to ensure customers are serviced with high quality in a reasonable time
- Support the Servicing lead who manages the long-term Contact Centre Footprint plan for over 1,400 associates
- Managing staffing and financial budgets
- Developing interval-level call arrival forecasts across multiple portfolios
- Partnering with insourced and outsourced workforce teams to ensure that workforce schedules are aligned with the call arrival forecasts
Qualifications for manager, forecasting
- Individual contributor able to work independently manage and mentor global team members
- Minimum 2 years’ experience on leading a team
- Minimum of five years’ experience within a credit risk analysis and related forecasting role
- Previous experience in unsecured/secured lending is preferred
- Highly proficient in application of analytical and presentation tools including presentation skills
- Prior experience managing large projects would be beneficial for the candidate
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager, forecasting. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for manager, forecasting
- Providing support to ensure contact centre hiring aligns with call arrival demand
- Continuously analyzing current business work-flows and productivity/efficiency results in order to seek process improvements
- Delivering analyses to Senior Leadership on call-centre performance and outlook
- Develop effective relationships within key functional areas of the organization to facilitate product planning – demand planning, product launches, product discontinuations
- Attend routine planning meetings and Plan/LBE/LRP meetings with the brand team
- Consistently focus on key business issues for the franchise and well as the portfolio
- Manage the generation and accuracy of short, medium and long range forecasting process for specified Inbound and Outbound Lines of Businesses (LOBs)
- Act as WFM Subject Matter Expert (SME) providing recommendations and direction / advice to WFM Management Team, Business Relationship Manager (BRM’s) and Center Managers in capacity management and act as a WFM liaison with centers on FTE Governance
- Key contributor to annual budgeting process and planning for areas of responsibility
- Review, update and keep current all Forecasting Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)
Qualifications for manager, forecasting
- Experience in database software Access/ ACL etc
- Analytical/Technical Skills - Demonstrated ability to structure and conduct analyses to generate insight and recommendations
- BS Degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Demand Planning
- Excellent attention to detail combined with solid data interpretation
- Strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and pride in delivering quality results and understanding business impact
- Ability to integrate quickly in multinational teams and drive through proactive communication global standardization in planning approach
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a manager, forecasting. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager, forecasting
- Interact with Human Resources and Training for recruitment schedules, vacation planning
- Responsible for overall accuracy of intra-day intervals for specified inbound and outbound LOBs
- Provide superior client/employee experience & strengthen relationships with Center Managers, Finance and BRM’s
- Lead financial projections used for capital plan submissions, including CCAR, DFAST, Resolution Planning, and Liquidity Stress Testing
- Prepare presentations and analyses for financial projections in various stress scenarios
- Enhance the forecast process to ensure accuracy, transparency, and efficiency
- Work with the CCAR PMO and Model Risk Management in support of the capital planning effective challenge and governance process
- Lead financial projections used for capital stress testing (CCAR, DFAST), resolution planning, and liquidity stress testing
- Prepare presentations and analyses for financial projections in various economic scenarios
- Provide insights to the model developers in conjunction with LOB Finance teams to create or enhance income statement and balance sheet forecasting models
Qualifications for manager, forecasting
- Develop complex financial models and analysis of raw data, including multi-year projections and variance analysis
- Evaluate projects and proposals for feasibility, financial impact, and return on investment
- Supervise up to 3 analysts
- Advanced degree in finance, economics, accounting, or related field
- Professional accounting designation (CPA/CA/CMA/CGA) is an asset
- Minimum of 3 years of accounting experience with solid exposure to financial reporting and analysis
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a manager, forecasting. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, forecasting
- Understanding where the innovations are happening and how can improve our systems to cover as many products and as much demand as possible
- Communicate and earn trust with our customers in retail & our downstream systems
- Responsible for generating, integrating and translating insights and analytics into growth opportunities that shape decisions and drive organizational action for the Rheumatology therapeutic area
- Partner closely with brand or franchise leadership and cross functional partners and serves as an internal consultant to the Sales & Marketing team
- Lead development and implementation of Rheumatology forecast models & tracking
- Integrate forecasting efforts & insights with primary research, intelligence, & analytics insights developed by peers across the Commercial Insights & Strategy team for Rheumatology and translate into business impact
- Direct the design, implementation and maintenance of performance measurement tools such as web based reports, sales scorecards, metric benchmarking
- Lead the deployment of Sales Force Automation capability for Direct Sales teams including the development of strategies and processes to support sales territory management, sales lead distribution, churn analysis and productivity reporting
- Supports customer and sales forecasting and budget planning process
- Solely manages team through the formulation and delegation of duties to analysts
Qualifications for manager, forecasting
- Flexible schedule at times
- High degree of personal ownership
- Able to 'connect the dots'
- High tolerance for detail and precision
- 3 - 6 years total experience in Finance and/or Revenue Accounting
- Solid analytical thought process
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager, forecasting. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for manager, forecasting
- Communicates company strategy, coaches and monitors performance of employees and motivates them to achieve established goals and objectives
- Cultivate meaningful internal partnerships, adding value and insights for the organization
- Responsible for creating a planning model that supports based on internal analysis and external need assessment
- Lead a team of demand analysts which includes creation/assessment of performance feedback and guidance
- Ensure forecast for the aircraft wheel and brake product line is aligned with industry standard statistical forecasting methodology and other available tools and processes
- Perform Decision Support activities for Global Demand Planning by providing leadership in
- Work with our retail business stakeholders to come up with use case that need to be solved
- Process innovation – identify ways to improve forecasting processes within the team, improve hand-offs between the forecasting and capacity teams to other functional areas within WFM and other departments (operations, recruiting, finance, ), set-up feedback loops to integrate qualitative and quantitative input into forecasting and capacity planning
- Deliver both short-term and long-term shop visit forecasts for the GTF
- Provide direct input to the Aftermarket SI&OP process
Qualifications for manager, forecasting
- Proven history of “Pride in Ownership” of deliverables
- CPA with strong revenue recognition experience
- 1 year+ experience in Process Management
- Experience with LEAN or Six Sigma or Agile)
- Self-starter with ability to effectively manage multiple priorities
- BA or BS in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, management science, industrial engineering, economics, math, and 7+ years quantitative analytical or forecasting experience