JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Opportunity

This position is an onsite opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives. As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers. Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we're committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As a Forecasting Manager, you will be responsible for supporting business objectives through the development, maintenance, and communication of forecast models, strategic analyses, and market insights. This role leads forecasting activities for select business segments, including Government channel and Puerto Rico, and serves as the lead to Long Range Planning. The individual partners closely with Commercial, Government team, Finance, Marketing, Market Access, Sales, and other cross-functional stakeholders to provide data-driven insights that support business planning and decision making.

In addition, this role supports the broader forecasting function by contributing analyses, presentations, and forecast inputs to the broader brand forecast.

This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You'll Do

Forecasting:

• Develop, maintain, and communicate bottom-up forecasts for select business segments, products, and targets using market knowledge, primary and secondary research, historical performance, and key business drivers.
• Support the development of the overall forecast team by providing analyses, assumptions, model updates, scenario planning, and forecast-related deliverables.
• Develop forecasting scenarios and sensitivity analyses to quantify business risks and opportunities.
• Ensure forecast assumptions are aligned with market events, competitive dynamics, policy changes, and commercial strategies.
• Partner with stakeholders to incorporate key business insights into forecast projections and communicate forecast rationale effectively.

Long Range Planning:

• Lead forecaster for top-down Long Range Plan and support strategic planning processes.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to assess market opportunities, business risks, and growth drivers.
• Translate complex data into actionable business insights and recommendations for leadership teams.
• Support business case development, investment decisions, and strategic initiatives through forecasting and analytical assessments.
• Assist in evaluating forecast performance and identifying drivers of variance between forecasted and actual results.

Market and Competitive Insights:

• Monitor market dynamics, policy changes, competitive activities, and industry trends that may impact forecast performance.
• Leverage internal and external data sources to identify key market drivers and incorporate findings into forecast assumptions.
• Partner with Competitive Intelligence, Market Research, and Commercial teams to assess market developments and business implications.

Internal and Field Stakeholder Management:

• Effectively communicate and partner with internal and external stakeholders to gain agreement on the forecast, business objectives and the action plan to achieve them

Process:

• Builds and establishes Forecast Center of Excellence. Consistently implements all forecasting and analytical protocols, procedures, and standards in a timely manner.
• Investigates data enhancements and discrepancies across forecasting and data analytics teams.
• Advances Machine Learning forecast and forecasting tools.

Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Contribute to the team's performance, actively collaborate within and beyond the team to design and ensure buy-in around solutions

Leadership:

• Support an environment of candor; takes accountability

Experience You'll Bring

Required

• BA or BS degree required, MBA, Masters is preferred
• 5+ years of forecasting experience desired, preferably in the healthcare industry
• Advanced knowledge of Excel models and in market BI tools
• Possesses strong business acumen and interpersonal skills
• Strong executive presence and analytical, quantitative, and communication skills

Preferred

• 3+ years forecasting experience incl. market and strategic planning and data analytics
• Experience with ML/AI forecasting and predictive modelling
• Marketing science/secondary data analytics/strategic management consulting experience

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

The base pay for this position is
$114,000.00 - $228,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Sales Support & Administration

DIVISION:
ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:
United States > Alameda : Plaza 6 Building

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard

TRAVEL:
Yes, 15 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We're focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We're revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott's Electrophysiology (EP) business, we're advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott's Heart Failure (HF) business, we're developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We're empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott's diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world's greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands - including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® - to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.