Takeda Pharmaceutical

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Job Description

Role - Contracts & Pricing DD&T Lead

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

At Takeda, we believe the pace of change will continue to accelerate. As a company, we are uniquely positioned to lead digital disruption rather than merely respond to it. If you are passionate about driving transformation, building and supporting innovative capabilities, and diving deep into data, this is an exciting opportunity.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Manager, Contracts and Pricing Data, Digital and Technology (DD&T) lead to drive strategic initiatives and provide operational support in Contracts and Pricing. This role will be instrumental to rapidly stand-up data solutions and perform complex data analysis against various large structured and unstructured data across different domains and systems that support Contracts and Pricing and key stakeholders across the organization. This role will also perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis regarding data flow representation and data quality processes. In addition, the role will partner with teams in defining and implementing AI/Automation productivity gains and continuous improvement opportunities.

This role will conduct, facilitate, and influence analytical assessments, in partnership with our business stakeholders and across various technology teams, and conceptualize business needs to translate them into analytical solutions. The role will work across teams and define various data set requirements to identify business rules and technical architecture structure, adhering to Takeda’s enterprise architecture principles, best practices, and business goals. This role will manage the operations of data and AI/Automation solutions developed and will lead in partnership with our business stakeholders to monitor, track, and prioritize activities.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in pharmaceutical Contracts & Pricing Commercial and Regulatory contract strategies, reimbursement processes, price forecasting, and gross-to-net implications. The ideal candidate will be skilled not only in Contracts and Pricing insights and analytics but also in using AI tools to drive efficiency and innovation.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ability to understand, consolidate, and transform various data sets related to commercial pharmaceutical data focusing on areas such as Model N revenue management, government reporting and interfaced systems, pharmacy and medical claims payor, product, and plan management, product launch analytics, gross-to-net and master data.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand and define their needs and desired outcomes, then identify, deliver and support optimal, efficient solutions that enable key insights, analytics, and decision-making capabilities.
• Define and implement AI solutions that provide greater efficiency, productivity gains, and innovation opportunities for Takeda.
• Partner with technical engineering teams, enterprise data backbone, solution architects and third-party partners to develop technical architecture. Evaluate, implement and deploy emerging tools and processes to advance analytical capabilities or to improve colleague productivity and realize efficiency gains.
• Support business stakeholders in Contracts and Pricing and across the US organization for data related questions and analysis related to Model N Revenue Management Rebates, Chargebacks, Medicaid, Pricing, and Master Data.
• Perform root cause analysis of business concerns about data flow and complex pipelines through data quality processes, customer master, and the data warehouse, in collaboration with business, technical teams, and third-party data vendors and software providers.
• Build and maintain technical solutions required for optimal ingestion, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources and large, complex data sets with a focus on Contracts and Pricing, Government Pricing and Managed Markets/Commercial systems and data.
• Develop processes to analyze and monitor complex data management processes such as data flow, matching, mapping and mastering to ensure data integrity carries through to final reports and/or solutions.
• Collaborate with and lead efforts that involve Contracts and Pricing data across the
• Enterprise Data Backbone (EDB) platform that provides capabilities for teams across the USBU organization.
• Partner with stakeholders in providing guidance and assisting in the creation of Tableau reports.
• As an expert professional within the organization, this role will develop innovative Contracts & Pricing solutions to complex problems aligned with organizational objectives. Work involves addressing intricate issues, requiring in-depth analysis and judgment. Engagement with key contacts across the organization is required in order to contribute to the development of new concepts and standards.
• Role will often work independently and lead function teams or projects, while also ensuring collaboration and partnerhip across various business and technical teams.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Data Science, Life Sciences, or a related field (MBA or advanced degree preferred).
• 7+ years of experience in market access, payer strategy, contracting & pricing, and/or reimbursement in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry.
• Strong understanding of US healthcare contract strategies, reimbursement, government pricing processes, data, and capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization to enable greater insights and analytics.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams in a matrixed environment and drive collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills, adept at engaging senior stakeholders to elicit requirements and transform them into data-driven, digital, and technological solutions that empower deeper insights and analytics, driving strategic business decisions.
• Experience working with commercial analytics.
• Familiarity with data in the pharmaceutical space (i.e., Model N, IQVIA, Symphony Claims, DRG, fingertip formulary, revenue management, gross-to-net, predictive modeling, price and demand forecasting).
• Experience with ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing, structured and unstructured data.
• Strong knowledge and expertise with SQL, PL/SQL, Tableau Reporting tools.
• Experience in Agile software processes and working in Agile delivery model.
• Strong understanding and experience with AI, Data Warehousing, Data Lake trends and concepts.
• Strong analytical and organization skills and ability to prioritize and juggle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work independently and as part of team.

Preferred

• MBA or equivalent Master’s degree.
• Experience working within a complex data environment.
• Expertise with Revenue Management and Government Reporting systems, including back-end data and interfaces.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

Exton, PA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$137,000.00 - $215,270.00

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

EEO Statement

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

Exton, PA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes