Senior Finance Manager, GI Revenue Forecasting

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The GI Care, Finance Senior Manager is responsible for end-to-end Volume & Revenue forecast for US Specialty Care’s primary GI Brands, Creon & Linzess.  These two products presently represent $7.3 Billion in annual Gross sales, $2.2 Billion in Net Sales.  (This role owns the entire market, share and revenue models). 

The Finance Senior Manager will support the Specialty Finance Controller, Commercial VP, and their teams. Emphasis is placed on explaining the brand evolution/outlook to executive leadership, facilitating optimal decision making & investment in the marketplace, as well as providing precise financial guidance to stakeholders.

This role partners closely with Price Forecasting, Sales & Marketing, Market Access, Global Operations and Demand Planning teams as well as Abbvie’s External Collaboration Partner Ironwood (Linzess).

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Align with commercial business partners and finance leaders on pro-forma hypotheses for forecast assumptions, supported by quantitative evidence as well as qualitative insights on past and future market events for all required forecast time periods (LBE, Plan, Long Range Plan).
• Integrate hypotheses into forecast models, while ensuring the models are calibrated to provide the most precise outputs.
• Partner with Global Operations and Demand planning to ensure optimal supply of inventory to support financial forecasts, deliver max forecast scenarios, and be informed of supply chain strategies to improve distribution margin.
• Partner with Price Forecasting and Market Access to ensure alignment on assumptions used to develop GTN (Gross to Net) rates to derive Net Sales.
• Using external data sources such as IQUIVA, Payer Mix and Wholesaler inventory levels, provide Insights to the business on market events, ensuring alignment on components of demand assumptions. 
• Load forecasts into required financial systems (BPC, TM1, ADS, etc.) to support consolidation for US Specialty, Global and Corporate Financial Reviews, Manufacturing/Operations production schedules and Sales Force incentive compensation targets for GI Care team.
• Complete key financial close schedules for a variety of stakeholders to demonstrate the financial results for monthly, quarterly, and annual fiscal periods.
• Triangulate the data described above and derive vital takeaways, trends, risks, and opportunities, highlighting them to leadership in a clear & concise manner.
• Synthesize the aggregated data and associated insights and leverage them into a more accurate forecast going forward.
• Lead/participate in ad hoc analysis, projects and process improvements as needed (i.e. Finance Future Fit Forecasting Improvements, Creon & Linzess follow-ons, Weekly Sales forecasts, etc.)

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities:

This role manages complex and critical processes that requires a high level of communication with other teams and functional groups.

Position Accountability/Scope:

Responsible for providing financial leadership to the brand team in development of the Plans, LRPs and LBEs.    This position reports to the Finance Director. Role is expected to operate independently to accomplish the goals and responsibilities of the position; however constant alignment with the Director is critical due to the nature of the role.  In addition, the Senior Manager has a high degree of freedom to independently set priorities so that both planned and unplanned departmental objectives are achieved. This position supports and communicates with all levels of operating and financial management on an on-going basis. 

Skills/Experience Requirements:

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 + years of progressive Accounting/Finance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Analytics, Mathematics/Statistics, Business, Economics, Finance,      Accounting, Operations, or Marketing

• Proficiency in Excel & PowerPoint.

• Knowledge of SAP and BPC a plus.

The candidate must also possess the following skill sets:

• The ability to interact with and support senior level management and to partner effectively and independently in a matrix organization.

• Strong organizational, analytical, problem solving, planning and decision-making skills.

• Extensive interpersonal skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills including a high energy level.

• The ability to manage and coordinate multiple activities and shifting priorities under tight timeframes.

• A highly motivated self-starter who can translate broad directions into high quality analytical output.

• Open to new ideas, creative and utilizes value-added principles in approach.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in Pharmaceutical Industry - Forecasting, Pricing or FP&A

• Experience with US healthcare industry-standard data sets (e.g. IMS/Quintiles (IQVIA) claims, NPA Rx, 867 and 852 feeds from pharmacies and wholesalers, along with primary research studies).

• Supervisory experience.

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

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• 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​

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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. ​

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