Manager, Forecasting and Business Insights

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott  

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: 

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. 

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. 

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution 

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. 

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

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 Manager, Forecasting and Business Insights, you will be responsible in supporting the business objectives of senior leadership and other business partners by developing and managing forecasting models as well as bridging insights and analyses to actionable strategy. The F&BI Manager will take a leadership role in driving market planning activities in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to inform decision making. He/she will work cross-functionally with commercial leadership, finance, marketing, market access, and sales. This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You’ll Do

• Forecasting: Leverages market knowledge, primary and secondary data, and KPIs to develop short-term and long-term forecasts, commercial opportunity assessments, and uncertainty analyses. Performs Bottom-up and Top-down forecasting to support short-term forecasting and long-range plan processes. Develops robust market model projections and scenarios in collaboration with business partners. 
• Strategic Insights and Analytics: Proactively provides recommendations to support market strategies and business investment decisions. Provides business and finance teams with analysis that yields actionable insights that support increasing market share, sales and margin. Supports data analytics team in bridging forecast assumptions to actual performance. Structures analyses around ambiguous problems and manage multiple projects. Generate fact-based data and financial insights and combine quantitative data analysis with qualitative market research insights to solve business problems and create business opportunities. Ensure accuracy and proactive communication of analyses, strategic recommendations, and other deliverables. 
• Market and Competitive Insights: Identify market trends and growth drivers by utilizing both internal and external data sources to define their impact on the forecast in partnership with the Competitive Insights teams. 
• 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
• Minimum 7 years of experience
• 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

• MBA or Masters is preferred
• 3+ years of 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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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.

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.]]><