Assoc. Director/director, Pharm Si Business

**OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE**

Pharmaceutical Sciences (PharmSci) organization is an integral part of global R&D at Takeda translating science into therapeutic products for patients. When you join PharmSci, you become a part of a team dedicated to bringing our products to life for our patients through innovation, dedication and talent.

We work as a member of Takeda’s Global Program Team (GPT) and takes full ownership of CMC activities, driving product development from bench to bedside. As a member of Takeda’s R&D organization, we are increasing our focus on execution and enhancement of business processes to drive forward an accelerated transformation that emphasizes partnering with stakeholders and industry leaders to boldly deliver an increasingly complex portfolio. We are embracing new ways of working, excelling in our data and digital transformation, building differentiated capabilities (CMC Future Fit), delivering on medical devices, and advancing a diverse, inclusive forward-thinking culture in our team.

It is an exciting time to be in PharmSci. Join our journey and change the lives of patients

The Business Excellence and Transformation team is comprised of internal business process professionals leading acceleration of Pharm Sci transformation, execution excellence efforts and Pharm Sci-centric communication. The objective is to lead a variety of cross-functional change programs across Pharm Sci and with our internal partners, create a sustainable culture of future thinking with a consistently growing and evolving transformative mindset all while ensuring delivery on behalf of patients world-wide the promise of a modality-smart, innovative and accelerating pipeline.

**Your Opportunity**:
The AD/Director of PharmSci Business Excellence & Transformation will report into the Head of PharmSci Business Excellence and Transformation and lead efforts to:
Create a culture of data driven, continuously improving and innovative business process design
- Manage a framework by which to lead critical, large-scale cross-functional business process initiatives and ensure delivery according to strategy and plan
- Tailor, promote, deploy and govern Business Excellence Framework for PharmSci and provide expertise and leadership to globally drive continuous improvement mindset.
- Support development of next generation of business excellence experts.
- Identify internal or external training opportunities to support a continuous improvement culture. Advise on tailoring of content, if applicable. Mentor new trainees.
- Provide process improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, Agile) mentoring, guidance and support to PharmSci technical functions and project teams

Build, improve and manage current cross-functional business processes that enable effective execution:

- Oversee PharmSci processes which provide critical input to governance and strategy meetings
- Driving alignment with Therapeutic Area Units (TAUs) and other key functions within and outside of R&D
- Develop and execute against a PharmSci model and framework that is consistent across Pharm Sci functions and continuously evolves based on lessons learned. Create and/or support PharmSci portfolio of business processes and transformational activities
- Implement business processes that support a sustainable approach to technical and execution excellence across the development continuum (R2D2C)

Support PharmSci Transformation projects to map current state, identify improvement opportunities and transform PharmSci
- Lead the execution of complex global work streams within the future state design effort. Includes data gathering, analysis of current state and development and execution of future state design. Will include specific accountability as a business partner in defined area(s): specific technical functions, regions and/or therapeutic areas to identify waste, robustness and process issues within their value stream. Develop roadmap on how to reach the strategic goals for the extended value stream.
- Collaborates with cross functional teams and PharmSci technical functions, PharmSci Leadership and key internal business partners (Research, Global Manufacturing, etc) to ensure successful assessment, execution, and sustainability of such work streams. Integrates activities across project execution and transformation workstreams
- Surfaces capacity, pacing, and resourcing issues as well as any other “red flag” considerations that require PharmSci leadership attention or intervention.
- Ensures effective stakeholder engagement and communication (at all levels of the organization).
- Ensures timelines are adhered to and engages senior leadership with respect to significant risks, issues or barriers.
- Provide project management support to the Head of Business Excellence with primary focus on fully implementing the Business Excellence structure, governance and operating model.
- Generation of metrics and summary reports to support reporting to the PharmSci Leadership Team

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