Associate Director - Lead E&C Transparency Operations

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Job Description

Associate Director – Lead E&C Transparency Operations

Lexington, MA

Hybrid

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

Ethics & Compliance (E&C) focuses on what the organization needs by ensuring

• Ethical behaviour plays a fundamental role in risk mitigation
• Being a forward-thinking leader in risk identification and mitigation
• Building a modern function supporting achievement of Takeda’s Vision 2025

E&C will respond rapidly to changing environment and business needs, it is close to the market, and encourages ethical behaviour in line with Takeda’s values. By working in an agile manner E&C ensures the balance between stable structures, governance, processes and systems, and dynamic approaches to delivering innovative solutions to appropriately manage our risks.

E&C commits to

• Act as role model for Takeda's values, ethics and values-based decision making, fostering this mindset in clients, partners and team
• Enable the organization to take decisions which are ethical and in line with our priorities of Patient, Trust, Reputation, and Business
• Collaborate across all E&C teams and partner with stakeholders in BU / BF to embed ethics and compliance as part of the way everyone works at Takeda

RESPONSIBILITIES

Transparency

• Lead USBU Ethics & Compliance (E&C) efforts to manage and enhance the US Transparency Operations capability
• Act as the business owner of the Transparency system; serve as primary liaison with the system vendor and Takeda IT support team
• Program manage issues, exceptions data remediation and system enhancement requests
• Lead data collection efforts for Federal and State Transparency reports as well as State Sales Rep and Marketing Disclosure Reports (Nevada, Washington DC, etc.)
• Prepare, confirm and submit  all  required  State and  Federal  Transparency-related Reports / Disclosures and FDA Samples report
• Monitor for Federal and State transparency-related limits, caps, and restrictions
• Create a cadence for performing monitoring, remediation and analytics (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.)
• Manage the development and implementation of business processes, data taxonomy, and data collection designs and methods that will enable Takeda to support current and future Federal and State disclosure reporting requirements
• Communicate transparency-initiative status, progress, and data analytics on a regular basis to stakeholders both across the US region and the company
• Develop data analysis and monitoring mechanisms to test, validate, trend, and understand transparency data
• Train and manage internal and external users of the Transparency system, including management of third-party vendors who submit data feeds
• Collaborate cross functionally within the USBU, across the US region and across the company regarding the Transparency program, requirements as well as process improvement areas identified through monitoring, execution and analytics
• Manage the Transparency operations team members

CAPABILITIES

• Extensive knowledge of Federal and State Transparency Laws and related restrictions
• Ability to work with data, databases and reporting platforms
• Proficient in PowerBI or Tableau, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Excellent written/verbal communication, analytical and presentation skills
• Capability to lead and facilitate discussions with senior leaders within a business unit
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in a highly matrixed environment
• Consistently demonstrates the ability to deliver results
• Able to work and deliver on deadlines while managing multiple projects and priorities effectively
• Ability to rapidly assimilate to new functional scope responsibilities
• Strong customer-service skills while interacting with all levels of management, field sales, marketing, marketing and sales vendors and partners
• Understanding of how to translate transparency data into insights, actionable process, policy, SOP, and/or system improvements

EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of legal, compliance or commercial experience, of which at least 5 years in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry in a U.S. Transparency-related role
• Experience leading teams and managing vendors
• Proven ability to work successfully with others and collaborate with cross functional areas to identify needs, provide guidance, and communicate solutions
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience with laws, regulations and industry guidance that affect the pharmaceutical industry including, but not limited to, OIG and PhRMA guidelines, healthcare standard operating procedures, anti-bribery laws

What Takeda can offer you:

• Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Financial Planning & Stability: 401(k) with company match and Annual Retirement Contribution Plan
• Health & Wellness programs including onsite flu shots and health screenings
• Generous time off for vacation and the option to purchase additional vacation days
• Community Outreach Programs and company match of charitable contributions
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Ways of Working
• Tuition reimbursement

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

This position is currently classified as "hybrid" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

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