Director, Lynkuet Forecasting & LCM Insights and Analytics Lead

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Director, Lynkuet Forecasting & LCM Insights and Analytics Lead

The Director, Lynkuet Forecasting & LCM Insights and Analytics Lead is the U.S. forecasting lead for Lynkuet, with primary accountability for delivering accurate, insight-driven short- and long-term forecasts that guide brand strategy, financial planning, resource allocation, and performance management. The role will build, maintain, and communicate a robust assumption-based forecasting architecture, translate market and performance signals into decision-ready scenarios, and ensure alignment across U.S. and global stakeholders.

In addition, this role will lead integrated insights, analytics, and forecasting for Lynkuet life-cycle management (LCM) indications. The incumbent will define the learning agenda, synthesize primary and secondary insights, size opportunities, develop patient and market models, and shape evidence-based recommendations for indication strategy and investment decisions.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Director, Lynkuet Forecasting & LCM Insights and Analytics Lead, are to:

• Own the end-to-end U.S. forecasting process for Lynkuet, including annual budget, strategic business planning, latest estimates, operating forecasts, long-range forecasts, and ad hoc scenarios.

• Develop and maintain robust epidemiology- and patient-flow-based forecast models, with transparent assumptions, clear version control, and appropriate sensitivity analyses.

• Lead the development, validation, and alignment of key forecast assumptions, including patient population, diagnosis and treatment rates, market growth, source of business, share, access, persistence, conversion, depth, and competitive dynamics.

• Partner with Brand Leadership, Finance, Market Access, Sales, Medical, Regulatory, Global Forecasting, and other cross-functional partners to ensure forecasts are anchored in the best available data and insights.

• Create scenarios, risks and opportunities, and gap-to-plan analyses to support strategic choices, resource allocation, launch planning, and performance interventions.

• Monitor actual performance against forecast; explain variances, identify emerging trends, and recommend assumption or action changes based on new evidence.

• Prepare and present concise forecast updates, executive summaries, and deep dives to senior U.S. and global leadership, clearly articulating assumptions, data limitations, uncertainties, and business implications.

• Ensure forecast outputs are timely, accurate, fit for purpose, and aligned across local and global planning processes.

• Provide quality control and governance for forecast models, data inputs, methodologies, and outputs; ensure documentation and reproducibility of key assumptions.

• Lead and manage internal and external forecasting resources, including consultants, agencies, and offshore partners, as appropriate.

LCM Insights, Analytics and Forecasting

• Lead the integrated insights and analytics agenda for Lynkuet LCM indications, connecting business questions to research, analytics, market sizing, and forecast deliverables.

• Partner with Medical, Regulatory, Market Access, Brand, Global teams, and other stakeholders to define indication-specific learning priorities and decision points.

• Develop opportunity assessments, epidemiology and patient population models, market maps, patient journeys, treatment landscapes, and indication-level business cases.

• Integrate primary market research, secondary data, competitive intelligence, field insights, and internal expertise into a clear, fact-based view of unmet need, target

• patients, adoption drivers, and barriers.

• Build and maintain indication-level forecasts and scenarios that reflect clinical, regulatory, access, market development, and launch assumptions.

• Generate decision-ready insights and recommendations to inform indication prioritization, evidence generation, positioning, investment, launch sequencing, and go-to-market strategy.

• Establish KPIs and measurement approaches for LCM strategy and launch readiness, and evolve analyses as evidence and market conditions change.

• Identify data gaps and collaborate with Data, Analytics, and Research partners on data acquisition, methodology, and stewardship.

Business Partnership and Leadership

• Serve as a proactive, consultative business partner who anticipates leadership questions and converts complex analyses into clear choices and actions.

• Challenge assumptions constructively and ensure decisions are grounded in the best available evidence rather than prevailing wisdom.

• Prioritize and flex as business needs evolve in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining analytical rigor and a strong sense of urgency.

• Create strong cross-functional alignment and facilitate effective decision making across local and global matrix teams.

• Ensure vendors and partners comply with applicable legal, regulatory, privacy, and company requirements.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.

• Relevant pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare consulting, commercial analytics, insights, or forecasting experience.

• Hands-on forecasting experience, including experience building, manipulating, and quality-checking complex forecast models.

• Demonstrated ability to integrate forecasting, market research, secondary analytics, competitive intelligence, and financial thinking into strategic recommendations.

• Strong command of pharmaceutical forecasting concepts, including epidemiology and patient-based modeling, analogs, patient flow, market share, persistence, access, conversion, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis.

• Expertise with relevant pharmaceutical data sources, such as IQVIA, Symphony, claims, patient longitudinal, epidemiologic, sales, demand, access, specialty pharmacy, and promotional data.

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present concise executive summaries, structured syntheses, and clear recommendations to senior leaders.

• Proven leadership of cross-functional initiatives and external partners in a complex, matrixed, and global organization.

• High degree of autonomy, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities within time, budget, and capacity constraints.

• Ability to appropriately challenge assumptions, communicate uncertainty, and balance analytical rigor with speed and practical business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA, MPH, MS, or other relevant advanced degree preferred.

• At least 10+ years of relevant experience is preferred.

• Launch or in-line brand forecasting experience strongly preferred.

• Experience with data visualization and analytical or programming tools such as SQL, SAS, R, or Python is preferred.

• Women's Health experience and experience supporting new indications or life-cycle management are strongly preferred.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of between $ 180,200 to $270,300. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least: 10/6/2026

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

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Division: Pharmaceuticals

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