Senior Analyst - Contracting

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
• Drafting business exceptions from initial request through approval and to resulting contract amendment or notification
• Resolving internal/external customer issues and concerns
• Managing 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
• Partnering 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
• Working 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
• Supports 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
• Responsibility 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: Presents 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. Builds strong partnerships and drives role clarity with other interfacing Takeda functions, including but not limited to Finance, Audit, Legal, other Compliance functions as applicable
• Complexity: Understands Takeda’s diverse product portfolio (Gen Med, Specialty and Plasma) and ensures compliant practices across the managed markets, C&P and Finance organization

Minimum Requirements / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree minimum requirement or 10 years related work experience
• 5+ years of progressive experience in the following areas Marketing, Pricing, Contracts, or Finance in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry
• Experience drafting large volume and high dollar value agreements preferred
• Strong communication, analytical, teamwork and time management skills