Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Boehringer Ingelheim is a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and delivery of healthcare products. The Executive Director leads enterprise forecasting and Value & Access Analytics, translating market, payer, access, customer, and business dynamics into actionable forecasts, scenarios, and recommendations. The role also oversees organizational capabilities, governance, AI-enabled transformation, and strategic decision support across Human Pharma.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Commercial, V&A, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Patient Excellence, Medicine, and Customer Engagement & Transformation (CE&T) leaders to define the integrated forecasting and Value & Access Analytics agenda
- Ensure forecasting, payer and health system analytics, formulary coverage insights, reimbursement and access performance analytics, copay analytics, and pull-through measurement are aligned to the most critical business priorities and decision needs
- Establish priorities, governance, and resource allocation across the function to ensure analytical efforts focus on the highest-value business questions and strategic opportunities
- Translate evolving enterprise and therapeutic area priorities into a clear roadmap for Forecasting and V&A Analytics capabilities
- Oversee the development, governance, and communication of forecast assumptions, models, scenarios, and outputs that support commercial planning, financial planning, production planning, portfolio management, and enterprise decision-making
- Ensure forecasting approaches appropriately reflect market dynamics, access and reimbursement changes, competitive activity, pipeline evolution, launch readiness, lifecycle events, and other factors impacting performance
- Challenge assumptions, validate methodologies, and guide the definition and quantification of key business risks and opportunities
- Ensure forecasts move beyond performance reporting and provide meaningful forward-looking perspectives that support proactive business action and resource allocation decisions
- Reduce the time from data availability to decision-ready forecast by driving AI-assisted workflows, automated inputs and assumptions capture, and self-service scenario modeling, while preserving a human-in-the-loop model
- Partner with Value & Access, Contracting, Trade Relations, Brand teams, and other stakeholders to ensure payer and health system analytics are translated into meaningful business insights and incorporated into planning assumptions, performance evaluation, and strategic decisions
- Oversee the integration of formulary coverage insights, reimbursement and access performance analytics, copay analytics, and pull-through measurement into a unified understanding of market performance and future opportunity
- Ensure analytics are interpreted within the broader commercial context and translated into implications for access strategy, portfolio planning, resource allocation, launch preparation, customer engagement, and performance optimization
- Hold data providers and vendors accountable for the quality, timeliness, and traceability of input feeding forecasts and access analytics, partnering with data governance bodies (e.g., the Patient Data Council) to ensure decisions rest on a single, trusted version of the truth
- Own the synthesis of forecasting, payer/health system analytics, market, competitive, and access signals into clear, integrated insights that answer the "so what / now what" for business leaders. Ensure the function moves beyond reporting and models to deliver a coherent point of view — framing the business question, connecting insights across sources, quantifying implications, and recommending action on strategy, investment, access, and resource allocation
- Proactively surface emerging risks, opportunities, and performance shifts to Commercial, V&A, Finance, and TA partners ahead of demand, and ensure insights are delivered in near real time and embedded directly into planning and decision cycle
- Ensure the organization is staffed with qualified, highly motivated talent possessing the business, analytical, forecasting, and market access capabilities required to support the evolving needs of Human Pharma
- Foster a culture that values business acumen, proactive partnership, strategic thinking, data fluency, AI adoption, ownership and accountability for outcomes, recommendation development, and influential communication in addition to technical excellence
- Coach team members to operate as trusted advisors who understand business priorities, challenge assumptions constructively, anticipate future needs, and translate complex information into clear actions
- Drive performance management, succession planning, capability development, and continuous improvement to ensure the organization remains aligned with current and future business requirements
- Adapt organizational capabilities such as forecasting, V&A analytics, digital, and AI-enabled approaches continue to evolve
- Ensure function goals, resources, budgets, and operating plans remain aligned with Human Pharma, CE&T, and enterprise priorities
- Allocate resources across forecasting, V&A analytics, strategic initiatives, and emerging business needs to maximize value and organizational impact
- Continuously assess opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve forecasting and analytical processes while maintaining compliance, quality, and business relevance
- Balance immediate business support needs with longer-term capability-building and transformation objectives
- Champion the adoption of AI, GenAI, and agentic approaches to forecasting and V&A analytics — partnering with the AI & Data organization as the primary co-owner of shared data products, semantic models, and the forecasting platform — to strengthen the organization's ability to anticipate market, patient, payer, and consumer needs
- Leverage selective external benchmarking on forecasting practices and emerging innovation trends to inform planning assumptions and the evolution of forecasting and access-analytics capabilities
- Partner with Data, AI, Digital Products, Platforms, & Solutions, and global counterparts to evaluate and scale new approaches that improve accuracy, efficiency, and decision-relevance
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Minimum of twelve (12) years of experience in pharmaceutical industry, life sciences, or equivalent
- Proven ability to synthesize forecasting, market, competitive, and access analytics into integrated, decision-ready insights and recommendations — framing the business question, articulating implications, and influencing senior stakeholders to act
- Expertise in pharmaceutical forecasting methodologies, including the utilization of AI and advanced modeling techniques
- Strong understanding of the U.S. market dynamics, including health systems, reimbursement, co-pay, healthcare policies, and consumer behavior
- Strong forecasting and analytical skills
- Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate effectively with leaders across U.S. HP and Global
- Ability to build relationships with business partners and cultivate a culture of collaboration and partnership
- Experience building scalable analytical capabilities that utilize industry-leading data and technology
- Proactive business-partnering mindset, with a track record of anticipating needs, surfacing risks/opportunities, and shaping decisions before requests become urgent or reactive
- Ability to lead, coach, and develop multidisciplinary teams and build capability in strategic thinking, business partnership, recommendation development, and influential communication
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Advanced degree preferred
Benefits
- Role specific discretionary bonus may be available.
- Relocation may be available.
- Opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally.
- Visibility and the opportunity to directly contribute to the company's success.
- Support for a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance.
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