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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join Takeda as a Manager, Price Forecasting and Optimization located in Cambridge, MA. The Manager, Price Forecasting and Optimization is accountable for leading the creation and development of detailed analysis, forecast projections and reporting for the RDBU relating to pricing strategies, rebates, and chargebacks, which are incorporated into US BU P&L, directly affecting the organization’s overall financial performance.

This position is responsible for supporting LSD, Transplant and HAE pricing strategies as well as ongoing development and maintenance of the Anaplan price forecasting platform: 

• Including the ability to work with large data sets to produce the appropriate analytics and reporting metrics to internal business partners that impact ASP.
• Collaborate with internal partners from Contracts & Pricing, Government Pricing, Market Access, Business Case teams to ensure all time sensitive metrics are submitted.
• Develop processes for ongoing maintenance and continuous improvements in Anaplan, for items such as customer mappings and variance analysis.
• Collaborate with Finance Business Partners on integration of Price Forecast in Anaplan into net sales models, and future reporting capabilities.

This position is responsible for supporting, collaborating, coordinating, and maintaining the financial planning processes (MRP/MYC/LRF) with the following departments: Managed Markets, Finance, Business Insights Strategy and Marketing Brand; clearly communicating the necessary requirements for each business segment, developing financial models, consolidating the data to allow for multiple views of the information, leading the preparation of MRP/MYC/LRF presentations by distilling extremely complex pricing models and forecasts into concise story lines, and communicating them to Executive Leadership Team for review. 

Additionally, this position will monitor trends, understand the impact of contracting events, and the price sensitivity in the Commercial and Government channels. This position is accountable for delivering key insights and strategic implications to the organization that will drive current and future pricing decisions.

How you will contribute:

• Support the planning, development, and implementation of forecast models, reporting capabilities and ongoing process improvements within the Anaplan system.  Collaborate with internal and external partners as needed to ensure new models match the Price Forecast and broader organization’s needs, perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as required and develop reporting packages to compare actuals and forecasts versus prior year and previous forecast versions.
• Manage and assist in the development of relevant analyses, forecasts, and scenario planning for MRP/MYC/LRF, by distilling extremely complex pricing and forecasts models into concise story lines that assist and support executive leadership in developing a long-term vision or strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams from Finance, Business Insights and Strategy, Marketing, Managed Markets and Sales to develop financial plan and forecast assumptions, providing a wide-range of detailed relevant scenario analyses, variance analyses, sensitivity analyses, and other insightful ad-hoc analyses.
• Create and manage analyses, forecasts, and scenario planning for MRP/MYC/LRF, by distilling extremely complex pricing and forecasts models into concise story lines that assist and support executive leadership in developing a long-term vision or strategy.
• Lead and identify