Vice President, Global Business Digital Insights & Analytics – Oncology

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Job Description

The Vice President, Global Business Digital Insights & Analytics – Oncology will lead a Commercial Digital, Insights & Analytics and Forecasting function within the Global Commercial organization.  The Vice President will manage a number of business-critical cross-functional capabilities for the global oncology business including: Forecasting, Analytical Insights, Market Research, and competitive intelligence. This role has high visibility and requires strong leadership and influencing skills serving as a thought partner to the Oncology Business Unit.  The incumbent will be a key member of the Oncology Global Commercial Leadership team.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Lead Global Forecasting, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence teams in the development and execution of global strategic market and scientific insight plans across the Takeda Oncology portfolio.
• Provide clear analytical support for assessment of brand performance, new lifecycle indications, and external opportunities including decision support and analysis for strategic investments.
• Develop Takeda OBU digital strategy in partnership with the regions to support evolving go-to-market strategy. Build global digital and analytic capabilities to complement regions and Enterprise capabilities.
• “Co-own” the global oncology business planning cycle with finance to support OBU and Takeda corporate planning objectives. 
• Develop and lead a strong team of analytics professionals to be recognized as top-tier in, Advanced Data Science, Patient Analytics, Forecasting, and Payer Analytics.
• Attract, mentor, and retain, a deep bench of analytic talent across key areas of business need, investing in development, training, and succession planning.
• Demonstrate flexibility and agility in forecasting approach and timing to accommodate changing business needs.
• Collaborate and partner effectively with various stakeholders across the business, including Marketing, Sales, Managed Markets, Finance, and Operations teams; respond to executive leadership requests for operational analysis and measurement.
• Develop key vendor and consultant relationships that can be leveraged to build optimal capabilities in the identified areas of need, build market expertise in pharma commercial data & analysis.

Education, Experience, and Skills:

• BS or BA degree required.  MBA is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of management level experience in the pharmaceutical, biologic/biotech industries.  Senior management experience in global pharmaceutical commercial data, analytics, forecasting, or related field, leading a medium to large organization and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.
• Proven track record of leading and driving business process transformation and organizational culture change as well as delivering on programs with complex business deliverables.
• Direct experience in building novel data, digital and analytics capabilities, and leading analytics in support of critical strategic decisions around pricing, access, and/or resource and investment decisions.
• Track record of successful leadership, management, and development of large, multi-disciplinary globally dispersed teams.  Strong judge of talent with the ability to make tough talent decisions.
• Health care business acumen with a comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.
• Familiarity and leadership experience with annual organizational financial planning cycles and demand/revenue forecasting is highly preferred.
• Preferred experience working with large data sets and predictive analytics frameworks.