Senior Analyst - Contracting

Job Description

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.

• Provide technical and analytical support for contracts.
• 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 and external customer issues and concerns.
• Manage contract administration for assigned contracts.
• 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 to drive profitable growth.
• Act as subject matter expert and provide cross-functional training on contract operations and contract language interpretation.
• Interpret and translate business case requirements into contract language, predict potential customer concerns, negotiate contract language with external customers and translate such information to ensure accurate contract and pricing establishment and rebate calculations.
• Ensure that business cases, contract documents and business exceptions are properly catalogued and stored to ensure secure archiving and seamless support in preparation of audits.
• Support internal and external audits by preparing and providing necessary documentation.
• Assist with the contract implementation of modified strategies, new product launch activities and special projects.
• Identify, recommend and implement opportunities for process efficiencies to drive increased efficiencies.

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

• Effectively interact with staff and management from all functional areas as well as key customers across Managed Markets, Finance, Legal and Audit.
• Effectively communicate ideas and data in both verbal and written form.
• Responsible to ensure 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.

• Uses sound judgment and takes a logical approach to problem solving and has 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.

• 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 constructively.
• Build strong partnerships and drive role clarity with other interfacing Takeda functions, including Finance, Audit, Legal and other compliance functions.

• Ability to understand Takeda's diverse product portfolio (Gen Med, Specialty and Plasma) and ensure compliant practices across the managed markets, C&P and Finance organization.

• Bachelor's degree minimum requirement or 10 years related work experience.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in 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.

U.S. Base Salary Range: $89,900.00 - $. Eligible for short-term and long-term incentives, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan with match, disability, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, well-being benefits, sick time up to 80 hours per calendar year, and paid vacation up to 120 hours.

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