Design Governance Lead

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Job Description

About the role

As the Design Governance Lead, you will establish and safeguard Takeda's global design governance framework, ensuring that critical engineering and CAPEX decisions are made through a consistent, transparent, and evidence-based process. You will act as the guardian of design decision quality, driving robust governance from early investment through Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) while enabling innovation, reducing risk, and supporting successful project delivery across Takeda's global engineering portfolio.

How you contribute

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve Takeda's global Design Assurance & Review (DAR) framework for early investment and FEED decision-making.

• Establish governance standards for design decisions, including evidence requirements, documentation, approval criteria, and decision traceability.

• Ensure consistent application of design governance across global projects, regions, and delivery models, including internal and external engineering partners.

• Safeguard the quality of early investment decisions by ensuring robust option evaluation, transparent risk assessment, and documented assumptions.

• Own governance of design decision records, assumptions, deviations, and decision logs to ensure full auditability throughout the project lifecycle.

• Protect approved design baselines by managing formal deviation processes and preventing undocumented scope or design changes.

• Partner with Design Delivery, Finance, Quality, Project Sponsors, and external engineering organizations to ensure alignment between governance, investment decisions, and project execution.

• Drive continuous improvement of design governance practices while promoting knowledge sharing and engineering excellence across the global organization.
  

What you bring to Takeda

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Process, Industrial or related discipline); Master's or PhD preferred.

• Significant experience leading engineering, FEED, design assurance, or engineering governance activities within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or highly regulated industries.

• Strong understanding of CAPEX project development, engineering governance, and investment decision-making processes.

• Experience working across global organizations and collaborating with diverse, cross-functional, and geographically distributed teams.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to simplify complex technical challenges for senior stakeholders.

• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and uphold governance standards.

• Demonstrated leadership in driving organizational change, fostering collaboration, developing people, and building engagement across multidisciplinary teams.

• High integrity, sound judgment, resilience, and a continuous improvement mindset, with a passion for innovation and engineering excellence.

Locations

Zurich, Switzerland

Base Salary Range:

CHF177,400.00 - CHF243,980.00

For information about our benefits, please click here.

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time