Associate Director, Forecasting – Systemic Mastocytosis; SM

Associate Director, Forecasting – Systemic Mastocytosis (SM)

Location:

Cambridge, MA or Morristown, NJ

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Strategic Context:
Sanofi currently has the most robust pipeline and forthcoming product launches in the company’s history. As the next phase of our Play‑To‑Win strategy, Sanofi must appropriately support this pipeline to realize our vision of delivering scientific miracles worldwide. We are modernizing the Sanofi operational structure to include a Go‑to‑Market Capabilities (GTMC) team within the company. The GTMC organization is charged with delivering best‑in‑class capabilities to bring speed and increased value to commercial operations, accelerating and improving key capabilities to facilitate best‑informed strategic decision making across the organization.

The Associate Director, Forecasting – Systemic Mastocytosis (SM) will be a key member of the Insights and Analytics (I&A) team, responsible for leading forecasting activities for treatments within the Sanofi Systemic Mastocytosis portfolio – first for AYVAKIT, and then for future pipeline SM products. This individual will be an integral strategic partner to Sanofi US Commercial leadership, collaborating with a range of cross‑functional stakeholders (e.g., Finance, Market Access, Digital/IT, Launch Excellence) to develop accurate, actionable short‑ and long‑range sales forecasts for in‑line and future indications and deliver proactive, strategic insights on potential threats and opportunities.

This position will report to the Director, Insights & Analytics – Systemic Mastocytosis (SM) and will be based in Cambridge, MA or Morristown, NJ.

• Collaborate with Commercial team, Finance, and other cross‑functional partners to develop, document, and communicate accurate patient / volume / revenue forecasts for annual long‑term Strategic Planning & Budget cycles, bi‑annual medium‑term forecast updates, and monthly near‑term Rolling Forecast updates.
• Coordinate with Finance business partners and forecasters in other therapeutic areas to coordinate forecast cycle deliverables and promote harmonization across assets & functions.
• In partnership with Analytics & Finance colleagues, provide key end‑of‑month closing deliverables (i.e., price / volume & demand / inventory analyses).
• Provide monthly updates to Commercial leadership on performance and near‑term forecast outlook, integrating latest actuals, analytics, Market Research, CI, etc.
• Support model enhancements to ensure forecasts for in‑line & launch products reflect strategic direction of each brand (e.g., segmentation, patient flow, etc.).
• Collaborate with Market Research to plan & design studies that provide key forecast inputs (e.g., demand study / conjoint exercises).
• Partner with Finance and Market Access to incorporate latest GTN and access assumptions, conduct payer mix analyses, and generate price / volume waterfalls.
• Leverage resources such as analogue analyses & external forecasts (e.g., syndicated / analyst reports) to pressure‑test and refine forecast assumptions.
• Work with Global forecasting to ensure that US forecast deliverables align to Global guidance and properly integrate with Global forecast aggregation process.
• Work with Finance and Demand Planning to ensure the most appropriate forecast (by SKU) is delivered for monthly supply chain planning activities.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Patient Support Services and Finance to assess the value of proposed initiatives and / or risks posed by market events; deliver ad‑hoc analyses that leverage forecast models to answer key business questions.
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