Lead, Pharmsci Knowledge Management

**OBJECTIVE**:

- The Lead, PharmSci Knowledge Management is accountable for organization-wide execution, stewardship, and improvement of the PharmSci Knowledge Management Framework and its business process landscape.
- This role ensures that employees are familiar with the knowledge management processes, including the purpose of doing so.
- Making sure that the right explicit and/or tacit knowledge goes to the right people, and that this information is promptly applied to business activities.
- Helping to capture new knowledge with the usage of a knowledge management system is fundamental to this position as well as monitoring progress by keeping track of engagement, value achievement, and other metrics.
- Providing relevant analytics, coaching, training, and support to champion a knowledge management culture.

**ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Support Head, PharmSci Knowledge Management by contributing significantly to the development of a strategy and execution roadmap for holistic Knowledge Management
- The Assoc. Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences Knowledge Management oversees and owns a portfolio of centrally managed knowledge management processes and is responsible for evolving the knowledge management system against our organizational objectives and proven best practices.
- This role is responsible for collaborating with the PharmSci Head of Knowledge Management, PharmSci Business Process Owners, and CMC Governance Leaders to properly improve our knowledge management framework and its principles.

**EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE**:
**Required**:

- Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, pharmacy, biotechnological engineering or related pharmaceutical science and 10+ years relevant industry experience
- Master's degree in chemistry, biology, pharmacy, biotechnological engineering or related pharmaceutical science; 7+ years relevant industry experience preferred.
- Significant experience in CMC pharmaceutical development and its related business and governance processes.
- Sound knowledge of the pharmaceutical value chain, the Pharmaceutical Product Lifecycle and its critical knowledge assets
- Experience contributing to and/or leading global scientific and technical networks.

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Teamwork: Ability to work well on global cross-functional team.
- Communication Skills -Ability to expresses oneself clearly and concisely within team; documents issues and/or concerns concisely and comprehensively; adjusts communication style as appropriate for the audience timely and effectively communicates with senior management; technical writing skills to support authorship of internal/external and approval of internal technical documents
- Knowledge Sharing: Ability to harvest and capture knowledge within the organization; improves solutions, processes, and deliverables through use of information; improves information capital by contributing experience, theories, deliverables, and models for others to use
- Organization: Exercises good time management and prioritization skills to balance a number of project and departmental objectives
- Technical: Recognized specialist in a CMC-relevant scientific or technical area such as process-, analytical
- or drug product development. Advanced experience in designing, maintaining or leveraging information
- and knowledge management tools.
- Leadership Skills: Develops and uses knowledge and interpersonal skills to appropriately influence and guide others towards the accomplishment of strategic goals and objectives.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Takeda encourages and supports its employees by trainings, job rotations and mentoring. A balanced work - life ratio (recognition for work and family, company kindergarten) and numerous benefits (fitness center, cafeteria, etc.) complete our profile as a top employer.

Motivated employees must be remunerated appropriately. The minimum salary for this important and responsible position is **€ **4.751,92** gross per month (full time, collective wage agreement for the chemical industry). The actual remuneration package will be guided by your professional experience and your qualifications, so increased payment is possible.

**Locations**:
AUT - Wien - DC Tower

**Worker Type**:
Employee

**Worker Sub-Type**:
Regular

**Time Type**:
Full time