Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Position Overview

The role provides end-to-end US Demand and Revenue forecasts for US Specialty, primarily Team One, with an emphasis on Lupron and Liletta.

The forecaster will produce analytics and presentations for AbbVie leadership. The forecaster will partner closely with Finance, Price Forecasting, Market Analytics and Business Insight (MABI), and Brand leadership teams.

The Forecasting Lead’s focus is primarily:

explaining the brand’s evolution/outlook to executive leadership.facilitating optimal decision making.providing precise financial guidance to stakeholders.

This role reports to the Senior Forecasting Manager, Team One.

Core Responsibilities

Use large data sets, historical perspectives, and business partners’ insights to develop forecasts.Align with business partners and finance leaders on forecast assumptions.Partner with Price Forecasting to ensure alignment on GTN (Gross to Net) assumptions.Load forecasts into required financial systems (BPC, TM1, ADS, etc.) to support consolidation.Integrate Actuals data into forecast models including validating and ensuring data integrityComplete key financial close schedules used by multiple stakeholders.Highlight trends, risks, and opportunities for consideration as part of developing forecasts.Lead/participate in ad hoc analysesPartner cross-functionally to drive tasks to consensus/closure while working independently and adjusting priorities as needed.Embrace continuous improvement via learning and development, along with proposing, developing, and implementing process improvements
Qualifications

Required:

6+ years progressive accounting, finance and/or forecasting + analytics experience. Bachelor’s Degree in Analytics, Mathematics/Statistics, Finance or AccountingProficiency in Excel & PowerPoint.Knowledge of SAP and BPC a plus.Strong communication skills (verbal and written).Strong business partnering skills.

Preferred:

Previous experience within the pharmaceutical industryExperience with US healthcare industry-standard data sets
Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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