Senior Analyst, Patient Access Analytics COE

Overview

Senior Analyst in Takeda's GCC Commercial Analytics & Insights organization in Bengaluru, owning mid-to-high complexity patient access analytics workstreams that support US market access strategy, reimbursement performance and account-level commercial decisions.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end delivery of assigned access analytics workstreams, producing reports and dashboards that track access performance, reimbursement dynamics, payer/account trends and patient support program metrics.
• Integrate and analyze diverse data sources, including claims, specialty pharmacy, managed care, formulary, prescription, HUB and access/reimbursement datasets, to identify patient access barriers and commercial opportunities.
• Analyze account buying patterns, formulary/access dynamics, access pull-through and provider or account-level performance across geographies, channels and customer segments.
• Lead custom access deep-dives and ad hoc analysis requests with independent hypothesis formulation, rigorous methodology and well-documented outputs.
• Analyze the end-to-end patient access journey (enrollment to first fill, time to therapy, referral-to-shipment cycle time and abandonment), diagnosing where and why patients stall.
• Measure benefits verification, prior authorization and appeals performance, including turnaround times, approval and denial rates, denial reason drivers, appeal overturn rates and payer-level PA burden.
• Assess copay and affordability dynamics, including copay program utilization, patient out-of-pocket burden, buy-down and leakage, foundation and patient assistance program support, and accumulator/maximizer impact.
• Evaluate persistency, adherence, discontinuation drivers and restart behavior to quantify patient retention and identify intervention points.
• Analyze specialty pharmacy and distribution channel performance, including triage and transfer patterns, dispense-to-ship cycle times, and free goods bridge and QuickStart program utilization.
• Evaluate patient support program effectiveness, including service-level impact on time to therapy and persistency, and performance oversight of HUB and vendor partners.
• Design and maintain Tableau or Power BI dashboards and reporting tools communicating access KPIs, payer and account segmentation, reimbursement trends and patient access funnel performance.
• Develop and maintain business rules, quality checks and documentation for access-related datasets, ensuring consistency in metric definitions, source logic and refresh routines.
• Identify opportunities to automate and scale recurring access reporting workflows using SQL, Python or Databricks.
• Partner with GCC Managers and US Market Access, Patient Services, Field Access, Access Strategy, Commercial Analytics and Brand stakeholders to clarify business questions and analytical requirements.
• Synthesize findings from multiple access and commercial data sources into decision-oriented narratives with clear implications for payer strategy, account planning and patient access improvement.
• Provide informal mentoring and quality guidance to Analyst colleagues, reviewing outputs and supporting consistent analytical standards.
• Contribute to team knowledge management by documenting access data source guides, KPI definitions, analytical methods and reusable query libraries.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree required in Statistics, Data Science, Life Sciences, Computer Science, Business or a related quantitative field.
• 4-5 years of experience in US pharmaceutical commercial analytics, market access analytics, healthcare analytics or related analytics roles, with demonstrated independent ownership of deliverables.
• Deep working knowledge of access and commercial datasets, including claims, specialty pharmacy, managed care, formulary, HUB/patient support, prescription and reimbursement data.
• Working knowledge of copay adjudication, benefits verification, prior authorization and patient support case management data is required.
• Advanced SQL proficiency; working knowledge of Python or R for analytical scripting and workflow automation.
• Strong experience with Tableau or Power BI for access performance dashboards, KPI reporting and business-facing visualization.
• Hands-on experience with patient-level access data sources, including HUB/case management, copay adjudication, specialty pharmacy dispense and status feeds, and patient-level longitudinal claims.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or MBA in a relevant analytical, healthcare or business field.
• Exposure to Databricks or cloud-based analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting US Market Access, Patient Services, Commercial Analytics or Brand teams.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India (IND - Bengaluru).
• Full-time, regular employee position.
• Second shift timing: 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM IST.