Pricing and Access Insights

**The Future Begins Here**

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India’s epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

**At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity**

**Objectives/purpose**
- This role will partner with stakeholders within the GPP and ICC organizations to bring together an understanding of the pharmaceutical value, access, evidence and pricing landscape to ensure the delivery of strategic access capabilities
- The role requires both oversight and delivery of project-related analytics, ensuring that projects are delivered to schedule while maintaining the highest level of quality and value expectations
- The role requires the adept utilization of data and tools in leading and facilitating market access analyses
- The role requires demonstrated market access experience and ability to collaborate and communicate with different stakeholders to drive delivery and collaboration within and across teams
- Business continuity planning and delivery risk management will be key expectations of the role

**Accountabilities**
- Lead the delivery of strategic market access analytic support to GPP team decision-making through asset and above-asset analytics that deliver decision-enabling market access insights such as:

- Drive the identification and evaluation of pricing, reimbursement, and access opportunities through in-depth analysis of clinical and economic value propositions, competitor benchmarks, payer behaviors, and market dynamics across global markets.
- Conduct stakeholder needs assessments to uncover payer, provider, and patient value drivers that inform the development of differentiated product value propositions and support target product value profile optimization aligned with product strategy and lifecycle stage.
- Provide analytical support for market access and value-based pricing strategies, including trade-off analyses between access and price using appropriate benchmarking, analogue and scenario analyses, and other relevant tools.
- Monitor market landscapes, synthesizing insights on payer policy evolution, HTA frameworks, and competitor strategies to anticipate implications for product value and access.
- Evaluate the impact of key market events—such as competitor launches, regulatory milestones, and loss of exclusivity (LoE)—on brand value and access potential and provide forward-looking access risk/opportunity insights.
- Support asset value maximization across the product lifecycle by identifying optimal access strategies that balance commercial objectives with evolving market conditions.
- Inform lifecycle and indication planning by generating evidence-based access and pricing scenarios that align with target payer value profiles, therapeutic value, and evolving payer expectations across multiple indications and geographies.
- Contribute to value evidence generation strategies by providing input on payer-relevant evidence needs, real-world data use/applicability, and competitive benchmarks.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Pricing, Global Health Economics, Medical, and Commercial teams to support the development and deployment of value communication tools, pricing strategies, and evidence packages that resonate with payer archetypes and support market access goals.
- Other key accountabilities include:

- Work effectively across functions and geographies with a focus on customer needs to achieve goals and ensure stakeholder alignment
- Take a leading role towards supporting the ICC GPP delivery team’s strategic market access capabilities and help embed integrated market access and pricing excellence within the ICC GPP Delivery team
- Be actively involved in ensuring continuity of business processes alongside development and furthering of the team’s functional capabilities
- Help mentor and develop young talent in the team

**Education, behavioural competencies and skills**:
**Essential**
- Relevant graduate or post graduate degree in science, economics, or pharmacy (MPharm/BPharm, MBBS/MD, PhD, MBA, etc)
- At least 8-10 years of pharmaceutical market access and/or pricing and/or health economics and outcomes research experience acquired at leading industry companies or relevant consultancy companies
- Understand market access activities needed at key drug development and commercialization milestones including commercial/business understanding of the biopharma industry to be able to deliver integrated market access insights
- Strategic mindset, critical thinker and problem solver with excellent analytica