Manager, Portfolio Strategy & Forecasting

The role

The Manager, Forecasting will own how patient and revenue forecasts are built, synthesized, and communicated. This person will lead forecasting across the portfolio to guide strategic and operational decisions.

What you will do

• Lead forecasting across the portfolio, building projection models for active programs, indication expansions, and prospective candidates
• Partner with Finance and Portfolio Strategy to deliver forecasts for long-range plans, annual operating plans, and budget cycles
• Perform ad hoc forecasting and analytics in partnership with investor relations
• Support business development activities by forecasting revenue opportunities for prospective asset candidates
• Partner with competitive intelligence to evaluate competitor clinical results and market dynamics
• Own forecast governance, including documentation of assumptions, version control, and reconciliation of actuals
• Analyze secondary data and market research findings to characterize patient populations and trends
• Build and maintain patient-flow and scenario models
• Track pricing, payer behavior, and coverage hurdles to feed into pricing and market access strategy
• Provide demand and volume forecasts to support launch readiness, supply planning, and manufacturing

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 5 years of consulting, investment, marketing, consulting, forecasting, or agency experience in healthcare/biopharmaceuticals
• Proficiency in data analysis and financial modeling, including forecast, valuation and scenario models
• Experience conducting and/or evaluating secondary data sources and primary market research
• Ability to effectively collaborate across multiple functions and with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to write and present with clarity
• Deep familiarity with the healthcare landscape
• Strong strategic thinking
• Strong project and process management skills
• Strong critical thinking and structured, problem-solving skills
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving, often ambiguous environment

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree

About the company

Kardigan is a heart health company working to make cardiovascular disease preventable, curable and no longer the leading cause of death in the world. The company has a cutting-edge discovery and translational research platform and a pipeline of late-stage candidates.