Global Pricing Lead, GI-Inflammation

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 (including 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, securing 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 for direct experience in international pricing and reimbursement.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a global pricing or market access role required, with local country 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 comprehensive 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, particularly in dynamic environments with variable uncertainties.
• Results-Oriented: Strong prioritization and decision-making capabilities focused 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, utilizing local and regional insights to shape compelling pricing strategies and narratives that support access goals.