Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join Takeda as a Manager, Price Forecasting and Optimization located in Cambridge, MA. The Manager, Price Forecasting and Optimization is accountable for leading the creation and development of detailed analysis, forecast projections and reporting for the RDBU relating to pricing strategies, rebates, and chargebacks, which are incorporated into US BU P&L, directly affecting the organization's overall financial performance. This position is responsible for supporting LSD, Transplant and HAE pricing strategies as well as ongoing development and maintenance of the Anaplan price forecasting platform: Including the ability to work with large data sets to produce the appropriate analytics and reporting metrics to internal business partners that impact ASP. Collaborate with internal partners from Contracts & Pricing, Government Pricing, Market Access, Business Case teams to ensure all time sensitive metrics are submitted. Develop processes for ongoing maintenance and continuous improvements in Anaplan, for items such as customer mappings and variance analysis. Collaborate with Finance Business Partners on integration of Price Forecast in Anaplan into net sales models, and future reporting capabilities. This position is responsible for supporting, collaborating, coordinating, and maintaining the financial planning processes (MRP/MYC/LRF) with the following departments: Managed Markets, Finance, Business Insights Strategy and Marketing Brand; clearly communicating the necessary requirements for each business segment, developing financial models, consolidating the data to allow for multiple views of the information, leading the preparation of MRP/MYC/LRF presentations by distilling extremely complex pricing models and forecasts into concise story lines, and communicating them to Executive Leadership Team for review. Additionally, this position will monitor trends, understand the impact of contracting events, and the price sensitivity in the Commercial and Government channels. This position is accountable for delivering key insights and strategic implications to the organization that will drive current and future pricing decisions.