# IMS Forecast Specialist II

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Location**: Hyderabad
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is seeking a detail-oriented Forecast Specialist to develop, maintain, and analyze project and study forecasts that support operational and financial decision-making.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Develop and maintain project/study forecasts using operational and financial data.

- Analyze forecast assumptions, trends, and variances against actual performance.

- Monitor enrollment, milestones, site activations, and project timelines to improve forecast accuracy.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather forecast inputs and validate assumptions.

- Support monthly and quarterly forecasting cycles, governance reviews, and management reporting.

- Identify forecast risks, data quality issues, and potential financial impacts.

- Conduct scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.

- Create dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to support business decisions.

- Drive process improvements and forecasting automation initiatives.

**Required Qualifications**

- 3 to 5 years of experience in forecasting, business analytics, resource planning, clinical operations, project management, or related areas.

- Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, Power Query, XLOOKUP / VLOOKUP.

- Experience with forecasting models and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple functions.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience in Clinical Research, CRO, Biotechnology, or pharmaceutical industries.

- Knowledge of enrollment forecasting, investigator grants forecasting, project financial management, and resource planning.

- Familiarity with CTMS, EDC, Oracle, Power BI, or similar forecasting platforms.

**Education**

- Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

## Skills

### Required
- Excel
- Power BI
- Tableau
- forecasting
- business analytics
- project management
- communication

### Nice to have
- Clinical Research
- CRO
- Biotechnology
- pharmaceutical industries
- CTMS
- EDC
- Oracle

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