The Associate Director of Price Forecasting Center of Excellence (CoE) will serve as a strategic leader within Pricing, driving the future of price forecasting through forecasting system transformation, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled forecasting capabilities. This individual will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on all Gross to Net forecasting for the upcoming GTN System implementation. This role combines deep Gross-to-Net (GTN) forecasting expertise with business process innovation, user-centered design, and change management to enhance forecasting accuracy, efficiency, and business decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Partners with Price Forecasting and Technology teams to document and translate business functional requirements into technical specifications, ensuring platform functionality is developed and updated appropriately as business needs evolve.
- Lead key stakeholder alignment to define and maintain the framework for the platform, determining the appropriate output views, report structures, and dashboard components needed to support GTN forecasting cycles, centralized reporting, executive dashboards, and forecasting KPIs, ensuring leadership has the right information in the right format.
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT), pilot programs, and system validation activities for Future Forecasting Tool.
- Serve as the first point of escalation for model questions, data discrepancies, and functional issues, identify problems and enhancements, coordinate resolution with technical teams, and communicate impact and timelines to business stakeholders.
- Serve as conduit between the Revenue & Pricing Systems COE, Price Forecasting COE, GTN Solutions Owners, Advisors and Price Forecasters with all Parallel Testing and Go-Live activities and training.
- Coordinate with the GTN System Team to ensure data feeding into the forecasting platform is accurate, timely, and structured correctly, serving as the business-side voice on data requirements and flagging quality issues that affect model outputs.
- Incumbent is expected to successfully perform all responsibilities with a high degree of self-motivation and autonomy