Data & Insights Manager

Takeda pharmaceutical; City of Westminster; Presencial; GBP 70 000 - 100 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Takeda UK & Ireland is seeking a Data & Insights Manager to lead analytics strategy across brands and business units. You will translate data into actionable insights for senior commercial leadership, drive forecasting, and shape customer engagement and business performance.

Develop and coach the analytics team, integrate market intelligence with BI tooling, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen a data-driven culture across Takeda UK & Ireland.

Qualificações

• Strong analytical and communication skills across BI tools.
• Experience translating data into actionable business recommendations.
• Experience in forecasting, market research, and analytics for commercial teams.
• Background in pharmaceutical or healthcare data preferred.
• Ability to coach junior analytics colleagues.

Responsabilidades

• Lead analytics strategy for brands and business units.
• Own forecasting processes with finance and commercial teams.
• Design market research projects to address key business questions.
• Enhance reporting, dashboards, and data platforms.
• Coach junior analytics colleagues and champion data-driven culture.

Conhecimentos

Power BI

Tableau

Qlik

Advanced Excel

SQL

Python

Databricks

Data analysis

Forecasting

Market research

Ferramentas

Databricks

SQL

Python

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Takeda is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, valuing the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our employees. We proudly support our Takeda Resource Groups (TRG), employee-led networks promoting dialogue and professional growth. We encourage all candidates, regardless of background, to apply and explore opportunities to contribute to and benefit from our TRGs and inclusive initiatives. We are dedicated to providing accommodations and support during the recruitment process., Are you passionate about turning data into meaningful business decisions? As a Data & Insights Manager, you will act as a senior individual contributor and trusted analytics partner to commercial teams and cross-functional stakeholders across Takeda UK & Ireland, generating actionable insights that shape brand strategy, customer engagement, and business performance. In this role, you will lead analytics strategy for brands and business units, combining analytics, market intelligence, forecasting, and market research to help maximise the impact of our brands. You will own forecasting processes and strategic business insights, translate complex data into clear recommendations for senior commercial leadership, and contribute to building a data-driven culture across the organisation. You will also play an important role in coaching junior analytics colleagues, developing team capabilities, sharing best practices, and championing innovation in analytics and insights. How you will contribute Lead analytics strategy for assigned brands and business units, delivering market, brand, customer, and competitive analyses to support strategic planning and commercial decision-making. Act as a trusted advisor to senior commercial leadership, generating insights and recommendations that help optimise brand performance, customer engagement, and business outcomes.

• Monitor and evaluate key performance indicators, communicating trends, opportunities, and risks to stakeholders.
• Design and lead market research and analytics projects to address key business questions and support brand strategies.
• Own forecasting processes in partnership with finance and commercial teams, developing robust market, patient, and revenue forecasts and presenting strategic insights to senior leaders.
• Support the ongoing enhancement of reporting, dashboarding, and data management capabilities, including Takeda's commercial data platforms.
• Collaborate on data-driven customer engagement initiatives, including segmentation, targeting, campaign optimisation, and next-best-action approaches.
• Coach junior analytics colleagues and promote a culture of data-driven decision-making by sharing best practices, strengthening analytics capability, and raising the standard of insight generation across the business.
• Stay current with evolving analytics methodologies, data sources, artificial intelligence, and pharmaceutical industry trends to bring innovative thinking to the organisation.
  Strong experience in analytics, insights, business intelligence, market research, forecasting, or a related commercial analytics function.
• Experience working within the pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or a similarly data-rich industry.
• Proven experience translating complex data into business recommendations and influencing 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, mentoring, or developing colleagues is advantageous.

Technical and business expertise

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify actionable insights.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical and healthcare data sources, including sales, patient, market, and competitor data.
• Knowledge of forecasting methodologies and commercial performance measurement.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, advanced Excel, or similar analytical and reporting tools.
• Experience with SQL, Python, Databricks, or similar data platforms would be desirable but is not essential.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of marketing and sales effectiveness.

Skills and behaviours

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to lead without direct authority.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Collaborative and relationship-focused, with the ability to build effective networks across teams and regions.
• Curious, innovative, and solutions-oriented, with a growth mindset and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Able to challenge constructively, embrace diverse perspectives, and drive better business outcomes through evidence-based thinking.
• Strong prioritisation, accountability, and organisational skills., 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.
  At Takeda, we earn the trust of society and our customers through our values of Takeda-ism: Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, Perseverance. We incorporate these values in everything we do. They represent who we are and how we act. They help us make decisions that we can be proud of today and in the future. We enable our employees to develop their full potential. As a global top employer, we offer exciting career paths, promote innovation, and strive for top performance in everything we do. Takeda fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and international work environment where our teams are united by their relentless commitment to our goal of improving people's health and creating a better future for the world.