Associate Director - Planning & Forecasting Manager

Job Purpose  

Are you energized by a finance role that allows you to lead a team, build highly effective business partnerships with senior stakeholders, grow your network and add real value to the business and your career?  

We are looking for a Planning & Forecasting Manager with strong leadership skills and finance acumen to lead & build team capabilities within the Planning & Forecasting Hub, own the P&F promise for your sub-region and partner Finance Directors and leaders.  

In this role you will build a high performing team with global reach. Success in the role requires the ability to lead, think critically, create accountability and influence senior stakeholders. You will be instrumental in managing the team to guide progress to our ambition by generating high quality, efficient, globally aligned forecasts, plans and analysis that give management confidence, support decision making and feed shareholder communication. 

Key responsibilities  

• Lead, coach and develop the team, with reporting line management of the analysts for the markets whose results roll up to the sub-region  

• Own the P&F promise of teams across your sub-region to drive financial Plan commitments, ensuring reliability of forecast to support market guidance and smart resource allocation (P&F Standard scope, agreed exceptions and analysis requests) 

• Planning and Forecasting partner to the sub-region Finance Head 

• Supervise the development, alignment, and communication of plan, forecasts, core commercial cycle and management information  

• Partner senior in-market and hub stakeholders to reflect a realistic and ambitious outlook, with potential swings clearly articulated. Provide insightful intelligence on business performance drivers, anticipate risks and propose interventions to meet targets. Challenge the business to produce stretching yet achievable forecasts   

• Simplify how we work and drive conformity. Embed change and work with the team to keep improving how we plan and forecast, leveraging digital, automation, AI. 

• Build strong financial modelling and skills across the team 

• Create healthy accountability across your markets, ensuring promises are clear and delivered on time and in full. Navigate the cross-functional matrix and build the internal network, working closely with stakeholders, being both a reliable partner and an effective customer of the services you depend on  

• Be an ambassador for GSK’s culture, code and One Finance  

Basic qualifications / experience  

• Proven people manager, with experience leading and developing a finance team 

• 16 years of experience with strong skills in modelling, analysis, forecasting, strategic/scenario planning, decision making  

• Understanding of digital, AI, automation and financial systems and processes   
• University degree in Finance or Business (or equivalent) 

• Ability to connect with and influence business stakeholders   

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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