Data and Insights Manager

Overview

As Data & Insights Manager at Takeda UK & Ireland, you will steer analytics strategy for brands and business units to drive informed commercial decisions. You’ll partner with senior leaders, translate data into actionable recommendations, and help build a data-driven culture. You’ll mentor analytics colleagues while staying ahead of industry trends to bring innovative thinking. This role sits at the crossroads of forecasting, market intelligence, and customer engagement with a clear impact on brand performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics strategy for assigned brands and business units to support strategic planning and commercial decisions
• Act as trusted advisor to senior commercial leadership, delivering insights and recommendations to optimise brand performance and customer engagement
• Monitor and communicate trends, opportunities, and risks through KPI analyses
• Design and lead market research and analytics projects addressing key business questions
• Own forecasting processes with finance and commercial teams and present strategic insights to senior leaders
• Enhance reporting, dashboarding, and data management capabilities including Takeda’s commercial data platforms
• Collaborate on data-driven customer engagement initiatives (segmentation, targeting, campaigns, next-best-action)
• Coach junior analytics colleagues and promote data-driven decision-making across the business
• Stay current with evolving analytics methodologies, data sources, AI, and pharma industry trends to drive innovation

Key requirements

• Strong experience in analytics, insights, BI, market research, forecasting, or related commercial analytics function
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or data-rich industry
• Proven ability to translate complex data into business recommendations and influence decision-making
• Experience developing forecasts, market assessments, and performance analyses for commercial teams
• Experience leading analytics or market research projects from design through implementation
• Experience coaching or mentoring colleagues (advantageous)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to identify actionable insights
• Understanding of pharmaceutical and healthcare data sources (sales, patient, market, competitor data)
• Knowledge of forecasting methodologies and commercial performance measurement
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, advanced Excel; SQL, Python, Databricks desirable but not essential
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of marketing and sales effectiveness
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; strong stakeholder management and influencing abilities
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments with ambiguity and changing priorities
• Collaborative, relationship-focused mindset with cross-team networking capabilities
• Curious, innovative, and solutions-oriented with growth mindset and continuous improvement

• communication
• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Qlik

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