About the role Drive global pricing strategies and portfolio-wide decisions to ensure sustainable patient access, anchored in Takeda’s PTRB (Patient, Trust, Reputation, and Business) principles. Foster pricing excellence and instill a value-based mindset across all strategic initiatives, maximizing the impact of Takeda’s products while upholding patient-centricity and enhancing organizational reputation and trust.
How you will contribute
- Develop, analyze, and implement pricing strategies tailored to assigned product areas, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to integrate pricing strategies with brand, market access, and portfolio optimization objectives.
- Conduct market research and pricing evaluations in collaboration with global functions and regional stakeholders.
- Monitor competitive pricing and access trends, synthesize data on competitors (inclusive of biosimilars and generics), and recommend actionable strategies.
- Contribute to the global launch planning process for assigned areas to maximize asset and portfolio value through stakeholder collaboration.
- Provide strategic guidance for global launch pricing, lifecycle management, and end-of-life pricing strategies in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
- Enable cross-functional teams to translate science and payer value propositions to pricing strategy, and secure broad patient access and affordability.
- Develop forward-thinking pricing approaches, including value-based contracts for pipeline products, informed by detailed assessments of value propositions.
- Inform pricing strategies for early-stage products and due diligence projects, ensuring alignment with market dynamics and business objectives.
- Maintain a thorough knowledge of key global markets, offering insights to shape and inform pricing strategies for assigned areas.
- Promote a value-centric mindset across stakeholder engagements to ensure the incorporation of value in decision-making processes.
- Lead operational pricing decisions, presenting recommendations to senior management based on global and market-specific developments.
- Oversee International Reference Pricing (IRP) activities, driving impactful recommendations for reimbursement and price negotiations globally.
?Education and Experience Requirements
- University degree required, Master’s and/or PhD in Healthcare discipline or Business preferred.
- 8-10 years of pharmaceutical experience with a strong preference of direct experience in international pricing and reimbursement.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in global pricing or market access role required with LoC experience preferred .
- Experience in establishing and managing effective business processes.
- Deep subject matter expertise in pricing, market access, and health economics strategy development and execution is preferred.
Key Skills, Abilities, and Competencies
- Pricing & Reimbursement Policies: Expertise in global pricing strategies and reimbursement policies, with a deep understanding of the interdependencies within the global market access environment.
- Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to lead Global Pricing initiatives with significant business impact, driving effective and actionable strategies.
- Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Exceptional skills in complex, multi-criteria analysis, especially in dynamic environments with variable uncertainties.
- Results-Oriented: Strong prioritization and decision-making capabilities with a focus on achieving impactful outcomes.
- Business Acumen: Extensive knowledge of business processes and the ability to shape and continuously improve them for better efficiency.
- Collaboration & Leadership: Recognized as a highly collaborative leader in pricing activities across Global, Regional, and Country teams, ensuring excellence in cross-functional coordination.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled at synthesizing product attributes and evidence plans to engage cross-functional stakeholders effectively. Leverages local and regional insights to shape compelling pricing strategies and narratives that support access goals