Procurement Insights & Intelligence Manager

By clicking the “Apply” button, I understand that my employment application process with Takeda will commence and that the information I provide in my application will be processed in line with Takeda’s Privacy Notice and Terms of Use.  I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge.

AAbout the Role

The Procurement Insights & Intelligence Manager (Senior Manager) is part of the Procurement Center of Excellence and is responsible for transforming procurement data and external intelligence into actionable insights that help Procurement drive business value and informed decision-making.

Reporting to the Insights & Intelligence Lead, this role delivers category, supplier, and Source-to-Pay analytics, identifies market and performance trends, and supports the effective use of intelligence across sourcing, supplier management, and governance activities. Working closely with Takeda Business Solutions (TBS) Category Analysts, Finance, Digital Enablement, and Procurement stakeholders, you will help improve the quality, consistency, and impact of procurement insights while enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.

• Partner with category teams, procurement leaders, and business stakeholders to define key business questions and deliver timely, actionable insights related to spend, category performance, suppliers, and Source-to-Pay processes.
• Translate complex data and market intelligence into clear recommendations, commercial implications, and decision-support materials that enable better business outcomes.
• Develop and enhance procurement analyses, including category opportunity assessments, supplier performance trends, contract compliance monitoring, leakage analysis, spend forecasting, demand forecasting, and sourcing scenario evaluations.
• Apply appropriate analytical, statistical, and predictive techniques to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and potential business impacts, ensuring assumptions and limitations are clearly communicated.
• Collaborate with TBS Category Analysts and data owners to promote consistent business definitions, data-quality standards, reporting methodologies, and metric governance.
• Validate analytical inputs, resolve data-quality issues, and support the continuous improvement of procurement reporting and decision-support capabilities.
• Provide procurement requirements, user feedback, and testing support for analytics and reporting solutions developed in partnership with Digital Enablement teams.
• Research and analyze supplier markets, category trends, inflationary pressures, economic drivers, geopolitical developments, and emerging supply chain risks affecting assigned categories.
• Identify and assess market developments and emerging risks, escalating significant findings and recommendations to category leaders and procurement leadership.
• Partner with colleagues responsible for ESG and supplier risk intelligence to ensure a coordinated approach to market, supplier, and procurement insights.
• Manage and evaluate outputs from approved market intelligence and research providers, ensuring information is relevant, accurate, and effectively applied to procurement decision-making.
• Support stakeholders with both recurring and ad hoc analytical requests, delivering concise reports, dashboards, visualizations, and presentations tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain supplier scorecards, supplier segmentation data, and performance reporting to enable effective supplier governance and relationship management.
• Support supplier governance activities through survey execution, performance analysis, and preparation of materials for supplier reviews and governance forums.
• Produce process performance reporting, including compliance, cycle-time, exception, and process-health analyses that support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Prepare supporting documentation, reporting, and change-request materials for process governance forums and collaborate with Process SMEs to identify improvement opportunities.
• Monitor stakeholder adoption and use of procurement insights, gathering feedback and measuring impact to continuously enhance analytical outputs and reporting solutions.
• Promote best practices, analytical methods, and knowledge sharing across procurement and analytical teams to improve overall capability and effectiveness.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a related discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in procurement analytics, market intelligence, supplier analytics, category management, business intelligence, or related analytical disciplines within a complex organization.
• Strong understanding of category management, supplier management, strategic sourcing, and Source-to-Pay processes.
• Proven ability to connect analytical findings to business outcomes, procurement performance improvements, and value-creation opportunities.
• Experience working with spend, supplier, operational, and market-intelligence datasets to develop actionable business insights.
• Strong knowledge of business intelligence, reporting, and data visualization tools, with experience developing dashboards and analytical reporting solutions.
• Proficiency in SQL and strong data analysis capabilities; experience with Python, R, or advanced analytics tools is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of statistical analysis, forecasting methodologies, scenario modeling, and predictive analytics techniques.
• Ability to assess when advanced analytical approaches are appropriate and communicate uncertainty, assumptions, and limitations effectively.
• Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data and external intelligence into practical recommendations.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating across multiple functions and working effectively with internal and external analytical partners.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders without formal authority and balance strategic priorities with recurring operational demands.
• Strong attention to detail, commitment to data quality, and disciplined approach to analytical governance.
• High level of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive supplier, commercial, and business information.
• Experience within a global, highly matrixed, or regulated industry environment is preferred.
• Business-level fluency in English required; additional languages are considered an asset.ed discipline is advantageous but not required.

Base Salary Range:

The 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.

For information about our benefits, please click here.