Director, Forecasting

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Job Description

About BioLife Plasma Services

BioLife Plasma Services, a subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, is an industry leader in the collection of high-quality plasma, which is processed into life-saving plasma-based therapies. Some diseases can only be treated with medicines made with plasma. Since plasma can’t be made synthetically, many people rely on plasma donors to live healthier, happier lives. BioLife operates 250+ state-of-the-art plasma donation centers across the United States. Our employees are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for patients and ensuring that the donation process is safe, straightforward, and rewarding for donors who wish to make a positive impact.

When you work at BioLife, you’ll feel good knowing that what we do helps improve the lives of patients with rare diseases. While you focus on our donors, we’ll support you. We offer a purpose you can believe in, a team you can count on, opportunities for career growth, and a comprehensive benefits program, all in a fast-paced, friendly environment.

This position is currently classified as “hybrid” in accordance with Takeda’s Hybrid and Remote Work policy and will be based out of Bannockburn, IL.

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

As the Director of Forecasting on the Forecasting, Pricing, and Analytics (FPA) team, you will be responsible for the structural creation, execution, and management of statistical models and analytics solutions that support and maximize our long-term growth plans. This role has three main responsibilities: (1) hands-on involvement in the execution and management of forecasting models, analyzing outputs, explaining and communicating results, and conducting rapid follow-on analyses, (2) work closely across the business in a consultative and cross-functional capacity to identify and propose ways to improve our use of data for forecasting and analytics, and (3) work across the FPA team to improve process, documentation, and knowledge management continuously.

While an end-to-end data science skillset is desirable for this role, the emphasis is on ideation (identifying opportunity areas), design (creating functional requirements and proof-of-concept models), and execution (running models in production and communicating about model outputs), as opposed to technical aspects of development, deployment, or scaling. This role is crucial to the success of the FPA team. It reports to the Global Head of Forecasting, Pricing, and Analytics at BioLife, which is within the Plasma-Derived Therapies (PDT) business unit at Takeda.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Strategic Leadership

• Improve measurement of business performance through focus on the right metrics, improving metric accuracy, and proposing & creating statistical models to better understand complex dynamics.
• Identify and help implement best practices, create and maintain documentation, improve processes, and advance knowledge management across the Forecasting, Pricing, and Analytics (FPA) team.
• Ability to proactively identify and quantify risks & gaps in ongoing business processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to achieve cost savings and efficiency gains.
• Work with partners, vendors, and consultants on cross-functional projects, including developing solution functional requirements, feature prioritization, and data management/governance aspects.

Applied Data Science

• Hands-on model execution, output management, and communicating results clearly and succinctly.
• Partner with the Data, Digital, and Technolo