Vice President, Commercial Insights, Advanced Analytics and Forecasting

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Job Description

The U.S. Business Unit (USBU) is seeking a dynamic, senior commercial leader with extensive specialty and rare disease products experience to enable growth across the U.S. Business Unit portfolio by leading the company’s Commercial Insights and Analytics organization. Reporting to the President of the USBU, this strategic important role will shape the operating model, remit, and operational excellence of this newly created organization to enable the success of Takeda’s.

This position plays a pivotal role in driving the USBU Ambition - our three to five-year plan that details how we’ll deliver sustainable growth for our business while we continue to create innovative solutions for patients that drive our business forward.  

The VP of Commercial Insights, Advanced Analytics and Forecasting will be a critical senior commercial leadership role that will lead the creation and successful execution of a Center of Excellence (COE) that effectively meets business needs for

• Commercial Insights, including primary, secondary market research, standard commercial performance metrics and competitive intelligence.

• Advanced Analytics: including a rare and rare-like disease patient finding COE

• Forecasting: including demand forecasting and annual planning
   

While common in the pharmaceutical industry, an effective CoE for analytics will be a departure from USBU’s way of working and a significant part of the role will be establishing best practices and ways of working. The role will act as a senior thought partner to the U.S. Executive Team and provide recommendations and critical insights necessary to deliver on our ambitious goals.

What You’ll Do

• As a member of the USBU Executive Leadership Team reporting to Julie Kim, President of the U.S. Business Unit, the VP of Commercial Insights, Advanced Analytics and Forecasting will play a critical role in shaping this newly created centralized organization, including the organizational vision, structure, talent base, infrastructure, capabilities and operating model. The new centralized organization serving the U.S. business includes Insights & Advanced Analytics, Data Science/Patient Finding, and Forecasting.

• Lead the new Center of Excellence organization by optimizing team, assess and identify effective capabilities gaps, and ensuring efficiency by minimizing duplication of work, redundancies, and ineffective support.

• Create the workplan (structure, roles, budget, key activities, and deliverables, etc.), serving the U.S. franchise teams and New Product Planning, encompassing all areas of responsibility including market research, forecasting, competitive intelligence, advanced analytics, reporting, data science, and a newly formed patient finding governance model.

• Ensure the team is working effectively with cross-functional commercial partners in to maintain strategic alignment, produce high quality deliverables, and achieve performance objectives.

• Partner with Digital and Data teams to a) bring latest analytics and market research techniques to power the business, b) automate (where feasible) analytics so they are standardized and real-time.

• Develop and align executive leadership team on the newly created Patient Finding COE including scope of responsibilities, remit, governance, and staffing requirements.

• Recruit, motivate, develop, and retain a team of highly skilled commercial operations and analytics professionals.