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Job DescriptionAt Our Heart
We are committed colleagues who believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We offer opportunities based on merit and welcome candidates of all backgrounds. Our team is growing, and we are looking for bright minds who bring creativity, curiosity, and flexibility. What talent do you have?
About the Role
As Insights & Analytics Lead, you will serve as the Insights & Analytics business partner for the cluster covering the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland.
You will translate standardized IBU analytics, forecasting, insights, and commercial operations methodologies into meaningful local actions. Rather than simply producing dashboards, your focus will be on contextualizing insights, supporting decision-making, driving adoption of standards, and ensuring insights lead to measurable business actions.
How You Will Contribute
- Establish a consistent cluster insight-to-action rhythm through monthly performance reviews, quarterly business reviews, and launch-related analysis.
- Translate analytics into clear business narratives covering what happened, why it matters, and what actions should follow.
- Provide recommendations on resource allocation, targeting, channel mix, and commercial barriers.
- Drive adoption of standardized KPIs, reporting templates, dashboards, and measurement frameworks across the cluster.
- Contextualize central analytics with local market intelligence, including competitor activity, access changes, tender outcomes, supply constraints, and field feedback.
- Partner with Finance to strengthen forecasting through local assumptions, scenario inputs, and market reality checks, particularly for product launches.
- Support stakeholders in interpreting forecasting ranges and converting scenarios into practical plans.
- Capture structured and unstructured commercial insights from CRM notes, field observations, and competitor updates.
- Lead key commercial operations processes, including HCP segmentation, call planning, target-list execution, territory alignment, and sales force effectiveness analytics.
- Oversee Sales Incentive Plan governance, administration, and calculation while promoting greater standardization across IBU.
- Coordinate cluster input into standardized market research programs and convert findings into actions.
- Ensure local measurement and tracking requirements support comparable analytics and a single version of the truth.
- Share relevant local learnings, barriers, and best practices with the Central MCE I&A Hub and other clusters.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field.
- Significant experience in Insights & Analytics, Commercial Insights, Marketing Analytics, Commercial Excellence, Forecasting, Market Research, or a related commercial function.
- Experience within pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or another regulated and complex environment is strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to act as a strategic business partner to marketing and commercial stakeholders, facilitating decisions rather than only producing analysis.
- Experience working within one or more countries in the cluster, ideally within a multi-country, multicultural, or regional operating model.
- Hands-on experience in at least two of the following:
- Performance analytics and KPI interpretation
- Forecasting and scenario planning
- Sales force effectiveness, call planning, HCP segmentation, or sales incentives
- Market research, competitive intelligence, or field insights
- Portfolio analysis, ROI concepts, or resource allocation
- Strong analytical literacy and the ability to challenge assumptions and turn ambiguity into prioritized actions.
- Experience driving adoption of shared dashboards, KPI definitions, standardized templates, and common measurement frameworks.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with experience using Power BI or Tableau.
- Familiarity with CRM and field systems, such as Veeva, as well as digital metrics and basic data structures.
- Exposure to AI tools, Power Automate, advanced analytics, text analytics, or GenAI-enabled workflows is an advantage.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex insights clear and actionable.
- Willingness to travel within the cluster or region based on business needs.
Your Key Stakeholders
You will collaborate closely with Cluster and Country Marketing Leads, commercial leadership, Finance, DD&T, local operations, Therapy Area teams, the Central I&A Hub, and approved market research partners.
What Success Looks Like
- Strong adoption of standardized KPIs, dashboards, and templates.
- Faster and more effective decision-making through monthly and quarterly insight cycles.
- Clear evidence that insights have been translated into business actions.
- Timely, high-quality forecast inputs and improved forecast accuracy.
- Strong stakeholder satisfaction across cluster marketing and commercial teams.
Empowering Our People to Shine
We are committed to creating an environment where people can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact. We encourage continuous learning, collaboration, and personal development while empowering colleagues to take ownership of their work and careers.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees and candidates are treated fairly and respectfully. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, without discrimination.
LocationsHoofddorp, Netherlands
Base Salary Range:
€77,500.00 - €106,590.00The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.
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Worker TypeEmployeeWorker Sub-TypeRegularTime TypeFull timeSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field
- Significant experience in Insights & Analytics, Commercial Insights, Marketing Analytics, Commercial Excellence, Forecasting, Market Research, or a related commercial function
- Experience acting as a strategic business partner to marketing and commercial stakeholders
- Experience working within one or more countries in the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland cluster, ideally in a multi-country or multicultural operating model
- Hands-on experience in performance analytics and KPI interpretation, forecasting and scenario planning, sales force effectiveness, market research, competitive intelligence, portfolio analysis, ROI, or resource allocation
- Strong analytical literacy and ability to turn ambiguity into prioritized actions
- Experience driving adoption of shared dashboards, KPI definitions, standardized templates, and measurement frameworks
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with experience using Power BI or Tableau
- Familiarity with CRM and field systems such as Veeva, digital metrics, and basic data structures
- Strong communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills
- Willingness to travel within the cluster or region based on business needs
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or another regulated and complex environment
- Exposure to AI tools, Power Automate, advanced analytics, text analytics, or GenAI-enabled workflows
Takeda Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Takeda and has not been reviewed or approved by Takeda.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded retirement is described as notably strong, combining a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match with an additional company contribution that scales with age and service. Access to an employee stock purchase plan further supports long-term wealth building.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid bonding leave for all parents, substantial adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, and robust caregiver resources (backup care and Maven family-forming support) are emphasized as core strengths. These offerings create a comprehensive safety net for a range of family situations.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (nationwide PPO/HSA and regional HMOs), employer HSA funding, and integrated mental-health and well-being programs signal depth in coverage. Preventive care is covered in-network, and plan choices by state expand access.
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What We Do
For over 240 years, Takeda’s propensity to evolve has driven the next generation of innovation, and as a future-focused organization, we’re continuing to drive forward with endurance in our steadfast pursuit to achieve the best outcomes for our patients in a rapidly changing world. We have been preparing for this period of value creation by investing in data, digital and technology, and we’re proud of our employees and their commitment to turning groundbreaking ideas into life-changing impacts. Since our founding in Japan, integrity and putting patients first have been at the heart of our identity, and we will emerge ready for our future as one of the most trusted and science-driven digital biopharmaceutical companies. Join a team where your innovation impacts lives. Together, we’ll realize improved outcomes by improving data quality, enhancing launch execution and improving the patient journey. You’ll play a critical role in accelerating data collection and increasing accuracy across all parts of the business. Patients across the globe will benefit from access to treatments afforded by greater opportunities and efficiency in our research and development.
Why Work With Us
We connect to our history and Japanese heritage through everything we do to bring our purpose, values, vision, and imperatives to life. We are committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients. Being a part of Takeda means having the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than yourself.
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