Company Information

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating, and one day curing, life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, we are developing advanced cell therapies across a diverse array of technology platforms, including autologous and allogenic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell and natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy. 

Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Janssen, one of the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, to jointly develop and commercialize ciltacabtagene autolecuel (cilta-cel) in 2017. Our strategic partnership is designed to combine the strengths and expertise of both companies to advance the promise of an immunotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma.

Legend Biotech is seeking a Senior Manager – Forecasting and Analytics as part of the Commercial, Global Insights & Strategy team based in Somerset, NJ. 

Role Overview

The Senior Manager, Forecasting and Analytics provides forecasts, analysis, and actionable insights that lead to the achievement of strategic and financial goals. Working cross-functionally internally as well as with our partner JNJ, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Commercial Operations, Supply Chain, Market Research, and Competitive Intelligence, this role provides forecasting support for inline and pipeline products for US and OUS market. This includes developing latest thinking, quarterly forecasts, long-range plans, supply plans and commercial assessments.

Key Responsibilities  

• Develop in conjunction with appropriate alliance counterparts for our inline asset CARVYKTI, by leading the forecasts that address the impact of critical events, are logically designed, and well documented, and represent consensus decision making among key internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate consensus-building among senior leaders to establish clear, visible, and rigorous sales expectations for the inline/pipeline assets by gaining their alignment and endorsement for forecast assumptions.
• Help leadership identify actionable strategies to improve Commercial potential by identifying and prioritizing relevant risks & opportunities.
• Analyze competitors and market dynamics to inform forecasting models and strategic decisions.
• Develop an objective point of view of brand strategy by integrating insights across multiple functions and capability areas.
• Leverage communication and people skills to influence leadership on recommended course of action.
• Quantify uncertainty using scenario planning and advanced simulation models (e.g. Monte Carlo analysis, statistical trending).
• Apply an in-depth understanding of diverse pharmaceutical data sources (e.g., Claims, Epidemiology, primary and secondary market research data sources etc.) and their nuances to develop and implement enhanced forecasting approaches and methodologies.
• Develop an objective point of view of brand strategy by integrating insights across multiple functions and capability areas.
• Guides the design of required market research studies to validate forecast assumptions, architecture, and patient populations in a given disease area.
• Well versed with predictive forecasting methodologies for short term planning.
• Ensure continued forecast visibility and organizational alignment through continued interactions and reporting with internal functions (ex. Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain).
• Provide recommendations on whether to go ahead with product development or discontinue certain projects based on market conditions, financial projections, and strategic goals.

Requirements

• Minimum of a BS degree is required. MBA preferred.
• Must have more than 3 years of experience in pharmaceutical forecasting. Must be proficient using Rx and other secondary audits, and epidemiology databases to develop forecasts as evidence by more than 3 years of work experience.
• Must have more than 5 years of experience in use of forecasting and model building software. Must be proficient in identifying, applying and adapting analogs, benchmarks and order of entry models as evidenced by 5 years of work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working on analytical projects. Must have in depth understanding of the pharmaceutical supply chain, including manufacturers, wholesalers, and payers.
• Must have more than 3 years’ experience in the application and use of analytical principles, methodologies, and statistics (statistical significance testing/confidence intervals, sampling) and multivariate statistics (regression analysis, cluster analysis, conjoint), probabilities and forecasting.
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills as evidenced by 5 years of experience.

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Legend Biotech is a proud equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to attracting, retaining, and maximizing the performance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is Legend’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Legend Biotech maintains a drug-free workplace.