Director, Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Manufacturing Business Operations

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Job Description

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide team leadership to ensure 1) PharmSci business processes are operating smoothly (CapEx, OpEx, Governance), 2) partner with Procurement to deliver year-over-years savings targets, and 3) support PharmSci in the development of SOWs, contracts and any additional purchasing support.
• Develop a strategic vision that works across all PharmSci functions and delivers significant benefits to stakeholders in the short term and supports a long-term vision of the organization. 
• Develop tools and trackers to streamline decision making and support executive reporting.
• Ensure that all related activities are synchronized, implemented, monitored, and reported, including the creation and management of timelines, risk management plans, dashboards, and scorecards.
• Lead PharmSci Clinical Manufacturing transformation that incorporates proactive and innovative solutions to address strategic objectives. Manage transformation roadmap and workstreams (sequencing, risks, issues, opportunities, resource plans, change management strategies, progress tracking, and budgets).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and leadership at all levels to ensure successful assessment, execution and sustainability of strategic initiatives.
• Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communication at all levels of the organization. Ensure cross-functional/organizational alignment in the design, execution, and integration of strategic initiatives.
• Develop a measurement system and/or tool to assess awareness, understanding, buy-in, and support of transformation and/or change management activities.
• Develop feedback mechanisms at strategic touch points to facilitate open discussions of improvement opportunities and execution challenges (with a view to quickly implementing refinements or solutions).
• Provide strategic advice and counsel leaders to ensure that all functional activities, tracking, and expectations are consistent with objectives.
• Assist workstreams and workstream leads with skills in process and execution excellence, project management, facilitation, problem-solving, change management, and value creation.
• Partner with functional counterparts to develop training and communication strategies as well as specific curricula and content.

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

• Comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and significant job-related experience in managing business process, sourcing, executive dashboarding and systems improvement.

Leadership

• Demonstrated experience successfully managing and leading a team
• Demonstrated ability to work across functions, regions and cultures
• Functional level leadership with the ability to inspire, motivate and drive results
• Excellent communicator, able to persuasively convey both ideas and data, verbally and in writing
• Proven skills as an effective team player who can engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company
• Ability to distill complex issues and ideas down to simple comprehensible terms
• Demonstrates leadership presence and confidence
• Embraces and demonstrates a diversity and inclusion mindset and role models these behaviors for the organization
• Builds teams across functions and geographies with individuals who have the right skills and experience to deliver on key organizational initiatives.
• Invests time in helping others to enhance their skills and perform at a higher level

Decision-making and Autonomy

• Provide input to highly complex decisions that impact the functional area
• Accountable for decision making for designated function
• Ability to seek diverse input from multiple constituents and stakeholders to drive innovative solutions
• Ability to incorporate feedback and ensure decisions are implemented swiftly to yield flawless execution 
• Accountable for providing input to and implementing vision and strategy for designated scope-making, complexity of decisions, impact of decisions, problem-solving)

Interaction

• Effectively navigates the changing external and internal environment and leads others through change by creating and inspiring and engaging workplace
• Cultivates a broad network of relationships throughout Takeda, with affiliates and external partners, in the industry and area of expertise.
• Effectively represents function in negotiations with the ability to resolve conflict in a constructive and collaborative manner
• Ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with other interfacing Takeda functions

Innovation

• Forward thinking with the ability to recommend, influence and implement organizational change and continuous innovation
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and bringing forward innovative solutions
• Ability to take risks implementing innovative solutions
• Identifies opportunities and anticipates changes in the business landscape through an understanding and ongoing assessment of the environment affecting the business.
• Role models respect and inclusion, creating a culture that fosters innovation

Complexity

• Ability to work in a global ecosystem (internal and external) with a high degree of complexity
• Ability to see and understand broader, enterprise level perspective

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in science or business-related field required.  Advanced science or business degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of R&D or consulting experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Minimum 8 years of people management experience and/or leading global complex matrix teams.
• Demonstrated experience in large-scale strategy implementation, workforce restructuring, outsourcing, mergers, or value capture initiatives; ideally with experience in M&A or integration.
• Demonstrated experience and significant accountability for mission-critical deliverables (e.g., within the supply chain or plant operations, bioprocesses, CMC, formulation, quality or R&D operations).
• Strong strategic and operational background with a track record of delivering results in a complex, global environment.
• Detail-oriented but able to develop and drive an over-arching strategic plan/agenda.
• Assertiveness to be comfortable leading organizational change with a great deal of compassion and empathy and being firm about ways of working and commitments.
• Ability to comprehend, organize and synthesize complex data, identify issues and trends, and develop and implement solutions to achieve multi-level objectives.
• Ability to collaborate and influence effectively with various senior leaders, partners, regions, corporate divisions, and cultures
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload, reliably meet deadlines, and rapidly make decisions.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Aptitude for structured thinking.
• Strong written and oral communication skills—including presentation and persuasive communication.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

Lexington, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$177,000.00 - $278,080.00

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. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location. 

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation. 

EEO Statement

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

Lexington, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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