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Job Description

About the role:

The Head of Inline Brands Forecasting will be a key strategic thought partner to the Global & US marketing and new product planning teams in creating short, medium and long term forecasts within Takeda’s Oncology Business Unit (OBU).This role is responsible for leading the development of US and global revenue forecasts for inline brands portfolio.

The individual will perform strategic market analysis for inline brands through the integration of secondary healthcare data analytics, competitive intelligence, and primary market research, and other data inputs to create quantitative insights and facilitate key business decisions. As part of this role, the individual will be interacting regularly with working with cross functional team across commercial, clinical, medical, and access/pricing teams to perform asset evaluations.

She/he will be interacting with senior leadership of the Oncology business unit to present commercial potential of inline brands. She/he will also work closely with team members from US, Japan, and EU5 to integrate forecasts across those markets. The individual is expected to be able to regularly synthesize key analytical outputs in management-ready deliverables to help inform and drive strategic business decisions. In addition to strong therapeutic area knowledge, the individual is expected to have a strong grasp of incorporating insights across market research, competitive intelligence and secondary data analytics to drive the commercial assessment.

How you will contribute:

• Ensure that customized, global, strategic forecasts are developed for inline brands brands (global and US) with assumptions based on facts and research

• Collaborate with team members from commercial, market research, analytics, competitive intelligence, global pricing and market access, to make sure all relevant market insights inform the forecasts.

• Lead the consensus-building process to gain alignment and/or endorsement for forecast assumptions with the senior stakeholders and Oncology Leadership Team (OLT)

• Leverage advanced analytics and integrate data available across multiple sources to enhance our understanding of market impact of the assets being considered

• Lead development, training and dissemination of Long Range Forecasting, Mid Range Planning and mid-year estimate process and applicable templates and management summaries for all relevant oncology products to regions and local operating companies of the Oncology Business Unit

• Leverage advanced analytics and integrate data available across multiple sources to enhance our understanding of market impact and as a result, Takeda’s brand and business strategy.

• Lead identification, maintenance, and generation of data references/databases, analogs for continuously improving oncology epidemiology and other forecast inputs, across markets

• Create forecasts that are range based, identifying key risk and opportunities of the brands/assets under consideration

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the commercial teams and other key stakeholders as they work through the strategy to drive growth in inline brands

• Manage and supervise a team of Takeda resources and vendors (onshore & offshore team) to deliver on key priorities

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (Advanced Degree preferred)

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in forecasting, market research, or business analytics in the biopharmaceutical industry.

• Significant experience conducting complex assets valuations in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience with advanced spreadsheets, patient based forecast modeling including dynamic patient models

• Experience in business development forecasting, preferred

• Experience in oncology, inline brands or similar specialty areas

• Experience with quantitative techniques including smoothing, regression, time series analyses, and simulation Experience with data analysis and data visualization tools.

• Product launch and Global experience Consulting experience with forecasting, market researc