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Insights & Intelligence Manager (ESG) at Takeda in Lodz, Poland
Job Description
Insights & Intelligence Manager (ESG)
Location: Lodz, Poland
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Job Description
About the Role
The Insights & Intelligence Manager (Senior Manager) is responsible for delivering ESG and supplier risk analytics, reporting, and data services that support decision-making across Global Procurement. As part of the Procurement Insights & Intelligence function, this role transforms data from internal and external sources into reliable, actionable insights that enable informed decisions related to sustainability, supplier risk, supplier performance, and category management.
You will play a critical role in building and operating reporting solutions, managing data quality, conducting analysis, and supporting advanced analytics initiatives. Working closely with Procurement, Risk & Sustainability, Category Management, Digital Enablement, and business stakeholders, you will help establish a robust intelligence capability that drives transparency, compliance, and continuous improvement across the procurement organization.
How You Will Contribute
- Build, maintain, and continuously improve ESG and supplier risk dashboards, reporting solutions, datasets, and recurring intelligence products.
- Deliver accurate, timely, and actionable reporting that supports sustainability, supplier risk management, supplier performance monitoring, and procurement decision-making.
- Develop and maintain reporting packs and dashboards for leadership and operational stakeholders, ensuring usability, transparency, and self-service capabilities.
- Manage recurring reporting cycles, ensuring reports are delivered on schedule and supported by appropriate validation and quality checks.
- Integrate data from internal systems and external sources, including supplier assessment platforms, sustainability data providers, risk-monitoring tools, spend systems, and manual submissions.
- Perform data validation, reconciliation, exception management, and root-cause analysis to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
- Maintain metric definitions, calculation methodologies, data dictionaries, business rules, and supporting documentation to enable consistent reporting and governance.
- Conduct supplier, category, and portfolio analyses focused on sustainability performance, emissions, supplier risk exposure, risk trends, and improvement opportunities.
- Identify trends, anomalies, concentrations, emerging risks, and performance gaps, translating findings into actionable business insights.
- Prepare clear visualizations, presentations, summaries, and recommendations for business stakeholders and leadership audiences.
- Support predictive analytics, scenario modeling, and AI-enabled initiatives through data preparation, feature development, testing activities, and validation support.
- Assist in model testing, monitoring, documentation, and validation to ensure data integrity and responsible use of analytics solutions.
- Embed approved analytical models into recurring reporting and monitoring processes to support ongoing business decision-making.
- Partner with stakeholders to clarify reporting and analytics requirements, align on scope and priorities, and deliver solutions that address business needs.
- Maintain visibility of analytics requests, dependencies, delivery timelines, and progress through a transparent workload and backlog management approach.
- Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and process optimization to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and accelerate insight generation.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen Procurement’s ESG and supplier risk intelligence capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Analytics, Engineering, Information Management, Sustainability, Supply Chain, Business, or a related discipline required.
- Master’s degree or relevant professional certification in analytics, data management, sustainability reporting, or a related field preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, procurement data management, ESG reporting, supplier risk analytics, or related disciplines.
- Proven experience designing and developing dashboards, datasets, reporting solutions, and analytics products used by senior stakeholders.
- Strong hands-on expertise with business intelligence and visualization tools, including dashboard development and reporting automation.
- Advanced SQL capabilities and strong experience working with structured and unstructured data sources.
- Demonstrated experience integrating, validating, reconciling, and managing data from multiple internal systems and external platforms.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to transform complex business questions into structured analysis and actionable recommendations.
- Experience conducting supplier, category, spend, risk, or sustainability analyses in a business environment.
- Familiarity with ESG reporting requirements, supplier sustainability metrics, supplier performance management, or third-party risk management processes.
- Experience supporting data governance, audit activities, assurance processes, or regulatory reporting initiatives is advantageous.
- Knowledge of predictive analytics, machine learning, AI-supported analytics, or scenario modeling techniques preferred.
- Experience with Python, R, automation solutions, or data pipeline development is beneficial.
- Familiarity with procurement, supplier management, Source-to-Pay, or ERP data environments is preferred.
- Pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated-industry experience is considered an advantage.
- Strong communication and data storytelling skills, with the ability to create compelling visualizations and communicate insights clearly to business stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data quality, accuracy, and governance standards.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands and manage multiple deliverables in a complex global environment.
- Collaborative mindset with experience working across business, technical, and functional teams.
- High degree of integrity, professionalism, and discretion when handling sensitive supplier and business information.
- Business-level fluency in English required; additional European languages, particularly Spanish, German, or French, are considered an asset.
Locations
Lodz, PolandBase Salary Range:
zł267,400.00 - zł367,730.00
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.
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