Director, Programming

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a** **Director, Programming** **in our Vienna office.

**Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.**

**OBJECTIVES**

Takeda Statistics and Quantitative Sciences (SQS) is looking to add individuals to our team that are team oriented, collaborative, has a strong understanding of the statistical programming function, exceptional leaders and innovators.

Takeda is a global, values-based, R&D-driven, top 10 biopharmaceutical leader committed to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments, guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet**.**

**Your Opportunity**:

- Leads statistical programming activities across an indication/disease area and related oversight activities ensuring quality and timeliness
- Leads statistical programming indication/disease area level strategies
- Sets tasks and prioritization across the indication/disease area
- Successfully engages cross functionally to progress tasks with proven influencing skills
- Leads process improvement initiatives
- Existing influential internal and external presence on varied statistical programming topics
**CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE**
- Provides technical leadership and ensures adequate statistical programming support for an indication/disease area
- Proactively creates and implements delivery strategies to enable predicatbale and seamless delivery of projects
- Key decision maker across indication/disease area execution and delivery strategies related to both risk identification and effective mitigations
- Assists Statistical Programming TAU head or Statistical Programming Head to ensure successful implementation of Statistical Programming strategies and efficient execution of the statistical analyses for an indication/disease area
- Applies strong general knowledge of technical and programming methods with applied experience and can lead staff
**DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS**
**Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise**
- Comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and statistical programming (e.g., clinical development, the prescription drug distribution process, etc)
- Technical expertise at the enterprise level and across a TAU
- Capable of guiding major technical efforts
- Expertise in industry trends and regulatory policy initiatives on quantitative solutions related to TAU or disease area
**Leadership**
- Demonstrated ability to work and influence across functions, regions and cultures
- Excellent communicator, able to persuasively convey both ideas and data, verbally and in writing
- Functional level leadership with the ability to inspire, motivate and drive results
- Proven skills as an effective team player who can engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company
- Ability to distil complex technical ideas in simple comprehensible terms in order to influence decisions and outcomes
- Programming leadership of numerous assets in disease area
- Cross functional leader and influential decision maker that has direct impact on assets and functions
- Key decision maker in asset level strategies and enabling tactical implementation
- Proactively creates and implements sub-strategies to enable the promotion of SQS and DSI vision and mission within TAUs, BUs, and R&D functions
- Mentorship, matrix or direct management of team of SQS colleagues
- Leader both within and outside of Takeda in area of expertise organizational initiatives.
**Decision-making and Autonomy**
- Decision making responsibilities:

- Provide input to highly complex decisions that impact the statistical programming function
- Accountable for decision making for the statistical programming 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
**Interaction**
- Effectively navigates the changing external and internal environment and leads others through change by creating and inspiring and engaging workplace
- Ability to effectively implement R&D’s partnership strategy as it applies to statistical programming
- Ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with other interfacing Takeda functions, including but not limited to statistics, data management, clinical operations, medical directors, global program leads
- 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 manner
**Innovation**
- Forward thinking with the ability to recommend, influence and implement organizational change and continuous innovation
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