Senior Manager - Commercial Forecasting

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Operations

Job Description

Senior Manager – Commercial Forecasting & Analytics, BAI

Role Name: Sr Manager of Forecasting & Analytics, BAI

Department Name: Business Analytics and Insights (BAI)

Role GCF: 6

ABOUT AMGEN

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, reaching millions of patients around the world and developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

 

ABOUT THE ROLE

Role Description:

The Business Analytics & Insights (BAI) team at Amgen plays a pivotal role as a strategic partner to many cross functional teams such as Commercial, Medical, Finance, R&D, Corp Affairs, offering data-backed insights crucial for driving the success of Amgen’s products and portfolio. As a Senior Manager of Forecasting at Amgen India, you will lead critical forecasting workstreams and collaborate with cross functional stakeholders across regions to support the global commercial organization. This is a hands-on strategic and operational role that blends technical forecasting skills with commercial insight generation and extensive collaboration with senior (ED & VP level) audiences across geographies—including partners in the U.S., Portugal, and internal contract teams in India. This role’s emphasis will be as an individual contributor supporting Amgen senior executive decision making but will also include management responsiblitlies and mentoring & coaching of junior staff and/or external consultants.  The ideal candidate will possess strong pharmaceutical forecasting and analytics experience, high data fluency, emerging AI tool familiarity, and strong written & verbal communication skills to help drive Amgen’s commercial success & shape the next-generation forecasting and analytics capabilities.

This role reports to the Director of Forecasting and Competitive Intelligence and operates within the broader framework of Business Analytics and Insights (BAI).

This role is for Amgen’s India Hyderabad Office. You will work on-site a minimum of 4 days a week.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Forecast Leadership:
  • Own forecast development for pipeline and occasionally inline assets, depending on assigned therapeutic area.
  • Build and lead discussions on forecast assumptions, drivers, and scenarios with global or U.S. Executive Director Brand Leads and their teams
  • Leads forecast synthesis for executive-level review, including story building & risk/opp framing
• Strategic Partnering:
  • Apply business judgment founded on knowledge of pharma/biotech industry and Amgen products / business to integrate market dynamics, competitor insights, and assumptions into forecasts, acting as a thought partner to forecasting lead, commercial brand leads, and finance teams.
  • Translate market events and competitive insights into business implications.
  • Drives cross-regional alignment on forecast assumptions; provides input to long-range planning and business reviews
  • Reflects on forecast assumptions, methodology & business context and flags inconsistencies or other issues to the broader team for discussion & alignment.
• Capability Building:
  • Contribute to setting up Amgen India’s forecasting operations.
  • Mentor junior team members and contract resources; instill best practices and continuous improvement culture.
  • Develop capabilities that bring in efficiency in work and utilize evolving technology
• Advanced Analytics Integration:
  • Introduce and scale AI and automation tools as appropriate across relevant brands to improve efficiency and quality.
  • Adopt new forecasting methods, data visualization techniques, and simulation models (e.g., Monte Carlo) where applicable
• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Coordinate across global teams, including U.S., Portugal, and internal stakeholders.
  • Closely work with cross functional teams representing Commercial, Finance, Medical, Value & Access, Analytics, Insights, and CI
  • Develop executive-ready outputs and ensure accurate translation of assumptions into actionable insights.
  • Demonstrate & model Amgen value of being respectful to others and to a diverse working environment.
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Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of relevant experience in forecasting, commercial analytics, or data science
  (or Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience)

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of pharma/biotech industry & forecasting function within the industry.  Expertise with pipeline forecasting.
• Hands-on experience building and reviewing Excel-based models and simulation techniques
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities; able to influence across functions and geographies
• Familiarity with AI tools, predictive analytics, and agentic platforms
• Project management skills & ability to manage multiple projects effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communicator with ability to engage stakeholders at all levels

 

At Amgen, our mission is to serve patients. We recruit the best talent, build an environment that facilitates career growth, and provide staff with the opportunity to make significant contributions to patients and our business.

 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

 

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