Manager, Forecasting

**This is a 12-month full-time hybrid contract based in Mississauga, Ontario**

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the world of oncology forecasting? At AstraZeneca, we're looking for a passionate individual to join our team and drive success in our oncology forecasting efforts. This is your chance to be at the forefront of strategic decision-making and contribute to the advancement of our innovative portfolio. If you're a great teammate, a standout colleague, and eager to excel in oncology forecasting, we invite you to join us on this dynamic path

**Key Responsibilities**

- **Oncology Forecasting Delivery**: Lead end-to-end forecasting for assigned brands/franchise, integrating patient funnel analytics, market data, and performance trends. Maintain transparent assumptions, version control, and documentation to support inclusive decision-making.
- **Portfolio Performance Tracking**:Consult and create alignment on KPIs for your brands. Converge multiple datasets to monitor performance versus plan, produce latest estimates, and highlight risks/opportunities with clear mitigation options.
- **Scenario Planning & Sensitivity Analysis**: Conduct scenario planning to pressure-test assumptions and quantify risks/opportunities related to launches, label changes, competitive entries, access shifts, and supply.
- **Strategic Influence (Portfolio-Level)**: Serve as a thought partner to brand and franchise leadership. Synthesize market research, customer insights, and internal data into recommendations for brand strategy, phasing, demand planning, and tactical optimization.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**:Partner with Marketing, Commercial, Pricing, Finance, Market Access, and global teams to align assumptions with brand objectives. Facilitate shared understanding of drivers, constraints, and trade-offs; encourage diverse viewpoints in reviews.
- **Business Case Support**:Collaborate with Commercial and Pricing to develop evidence-based business cases (e.g., access strategies, investments, indications/line extensions), ensuring forecast outputs align with financial assumptions and patient impact.
- **Insights & Data Storytelling**:Translate complex analyses into accessible narratives for diverse audiences. Create materials that connect patient funnel dynamics, market signals, and financial impact to brand decisions.
- **Ways of Working & Continuous Improvement**: Contribute to enhanced tools, processes, and analytic methods that streamline data workflows and improve forecast accuracy and timeliness. Champion data hygiene, reproducible analytics, and inclusive documentation.
- **Capability Building (Peer Contribution)**:Share best practices, support peer learning, and contribute to methodological enhancements in patient funnel design, scenario frameworks, and visualization. Help build a psychologically safe, learning-focused team culture.

**Key Responsibilities**

- **Education**:Advanced degree in Science (MSc, MBiotech or similar), Health Economics, MBA, or related field—or equivalent practical experience in forecasting.
- **Experience**: 3-5 years in forecasting or finance (preferably in pharmaceuticals/oncology). Demonstrated impact in brand-level forecasting and cross-functional partnership.
- **Communication**:Clear and inclusive communication skills, with the ability to distill complex topics for different audiences and create persuasive, accessible narratives and materials.
- **Strategic & Analytical Skills**:Ability to analyze complex data sets, triangulate insights, and surface practical recommendations for brand strategy and performance management.
- **Analytical Thinking and Strategizing**:Experienced in analytical thought processes and developing strategies, skilled at questioning assumptions with different viewpoints and data analysis.
- **Adaptability & Prioritization**:Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, prioritize effectively, and manage multiple brands and forecasting cycles concurrently.
- **Collaboration and Inclusive Leadership**: Experienced collaborator with an inclusive leadership style, demonstrating the ability to work successfully within a diverse team.

**What You’ll Gain**:

- A portfolio-focused role directly influencing brand strategy and patient outcomes in oncology
- Exposure to integrated insights, analytics, and forecasting best practices across the OBU and global partners
- Opportunities to improve forecasting processes and adopt enhanced analytic capabilities
- A supportive, inclusive environment for growth, learning, and cross-functional collaboration

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 res