Senior Manager, Forecasting and Strategy

Position Summary Senior Manager, Forecasting and Strategy – onsite in Alameda, CA, within Abbott Diabetes Care Division. Lead the US forecasting team to support senior leadership and other business partners, ensuring accurate forecasting models and developing actionable data insights. Support North America strategy, integrating data sources and providing fact‑based insights on customers, competitors, and market. Collaborate across functions including marketing, sales, market access, global, and finance. Responsibilities Forecasting: Leverage market knowledge, primary and secondary data, and KPIs to develop short‑term and long‑term forecasts, commercial opportunity assessments, and uncertainty analyses. Create a strong narrative about business performance and outlook and proactively provide recommendations to impact market strategies and decision making. Strategic Planning: Drive North America (US and Canada) commercial strategy development by generating deep insights about customer needs, competitive landscape, and market dynamics. Identify market trends and growth drivers by utilizing internal and external data sources, combining quantitative data analysis with qualitative market research insights. Collaborate with other functions and departments to track competitor and market activities and define their impact on the business performance. Strategic Insights: Generate fact‑based data insights to formulate analytical strategies for solving business problems and creating business opportunities. Ensure accuracy and proactive communication of analyses, strategic recommendations, and other deliverables to executive leadership. Proactively structure analysis around ambiguous problems and manage multiple projects. Collaboration: Effectively communicate and partner with cross‑functional stakeholders (incl. senior and executive leadership) to gain agreement on business objectives, define the action plan to achieve business priorities, and timely completion of deliverables. Team Leadership: Lead the team by explaining context, providing clarity and focus on key priorities, deploying appropriate resources, and making good decisions without necessarily having all the information. Develop people through support, constructive feedback and encouragement. Optimize team strategic insights, forecasting, analytics, competitive intelligence capabilities through proactive coaching, training, and innovative tools. Effectively coach team members on how to translate market and data insights into key takeaways and communicate strategic insights and actionable recommendations across the organization. Process and capability development: Continuously look for opportunities to streamline business operations and leverage state‑of‑the‑art technologies to create high‑quality solutions in a cost‑efficient and timely manner. Qualifications Required: BA or BS degree required. 7 years of experience. Preferred: MBA or Masters preferred. 3+ years of people management experience. Background in Forecasting, Strategic Market Planning, and Analytics. Finance experience appreciated. Significant experience working with key stakeholders across departments and interacting with senior and executive leaders across functions in an organization. Persuasive written and verbal communication skills. Experience in medical devices and/or biopharma industry. Deep understanding of healthcare related forecasting methodologies, data sources and use cases. Some travel required. Compensation Base pay range: $148,700.00 – $297,300.00. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. #J-18808-Ljbffr Abbott