Senior Analyst - Contracting

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Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Pricing Strategy & Planning, Senior Analyst is responsible for developing and implementing pricing strategies that balance profitability and market competitiveness. This role supports Takeda's mission by ensuring that pricing decisions are data-driven and aligned with business goals.

OBJECTIVES / PURPOSE:

• Provide technical and analytical support for contracts including:
• Drafting and editing contract documents
• Negotiating terms and conditions with external customers
• Managing contract compliance
• Draft business exceptions from initial request through approval and to resulting contract amendment or notification
• Resolving internal/external customer issues and concerns
• Manage all contract administration for assigned contracts including:
• Documenting portfolio requirements for accurate establishment of the contract terms or managing pricing system maintenance/set up and price changes
• Ensuring all product and price notifications are communicated on a timely basis
• Partner with finance, credit and collections and customer service to resolve pricing issues
• Create ad hoc analysis for field sales teams for customer purchase pattern history to review contract compliance
• Works cross functionally with Market Access, Legal, and Finance to ensure business alignment of opportunities and risks of to drive profitable growth. 
• Act as subject matter expert and provide cross-functional training on contract operations and contract language interpretation
• Interprets and translates business case requirements into contract language, predicts potential customer concerns, negotiates contract language with external customers and translates such information to ensure accurate contract and pricing establishment and rebate calculations
• Ensures that business cases, contract documents and business exceptions are properly catalogued and stored to ensure secure archiving and seamless support in preparation of audits
• Supports internal/external audits by preparing and providing the necessary documentation
• Assists with the contract implementation of modified strategies, new product launch activities and special projects
• Identifies, recommends and implements opportunities for process efficiencies to drive increased efficiencies

SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS

Technical/Functional Expertise  

• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and the Commercial Payor, Medicare Part D and/or Trade Account market space. 
• Experience in multiple aspects of the Market Access, Patient Services and Legal
• Knowledge of current pricing and rebating practices and ability to implement these practices
• Financial/business analytical support to pricing and legal initiative that enforce contract compliance

Leadership  

• Effectively interact with staff and management from all functional areas as well as with key customers across Managed Markets, Finance, Legal and Audit.
• Effectively communicate ideas and data in both verbal and written form
• Responsible to ensure that quality, productivity, and timeliness of deliverables meet organizational and customer expectations. 
• Engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company by being an effective team player

Decision-making and Autonomy

• Uses sound judgment and takes a logical approach to problem solving and possesses the ability to apply knowledge learned to future situations.
• Understands the link between one’s own responsibilities and Takeda’s business
• Effectively manages multiple priorities to maximize results and departmental efficiencies and prioritizes daily activities around established objectives. 

Interaction

• Ability to present complex information clearly and confidently
• Effectively navigates the changing external and internal environment
• Effectively collaborates with business partners and demonstrates the ability to resolve conflict in a constructive manner
• Ability to build strong partnerships and drive role clarity with other interfacing Takeda functions, including but not limited to Finance, Audit, Legal, oth