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Job Description

Job Title: Head of Quality Strategy, Excellence & Digital Innovation

Location: Lexington, MA

About the role:

• A full member of the OpU/Functional Quality leadership team, this role will promote and drive innovative and transformative approaches within the organization aligned with the Enterprise Quality Strategy and OpU/Functional Strategy.

• Develops and drives strategy, transformation, and operational/business excellence initiatives to evolve and advance the organization.

• In close collaboration with Data Digital & Technology (DD&T), this role drives digitalization and identifies opportunities and improvements to standardize, optimize and automate processes using digital technology within Quality.

How you will contribute:

Serve as the strategic partner to the Head of OpU/Functional Quality with responsibility for driving the advancement of the OpU/Functional Strategy, this comprising: leading strategic deployment and digital innovation, developing and implementing quality strategic initiatives and leading complex problem resolution. Engaging in long- and mid-range planning aligned with growth, pipeline development, network strategy, and business imperatives, collaborating with leaders on the MRP/MYC processes, supporting the building of organizational capability, providing oversight of organizational change, and driving change management.

• Performing operational diagnostics, conducting situational appraisals, and gathering insights.  Identify and prioritize value creation opportunities ensuring their integration into the alignment with OpU/Function Quality strategy.

• Ensure efficient resource allocation by creating viable strategic plans.

• Monitor strategy execution and the progress toward Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Intervene as necessary to ensure that OpU/Functional Quality is on track to meet or exceed its performance targets, and improve Quality business processes as needed.

• Responsible for the OpU/Functional Quality budget planning (MRP/MYC) in collaboration with the OpU/Functional Quality LT and in alignment with Finance.

• Lead business operations major projects and value creation initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and driving operational/business excellence.

• Provide oversight of organizational change deliverables in the Quality function and OpU/Function including process improvement/harmonization, synergy realization and ensuring the Operating Model is fully implemented.

• Support building organizational capability to deliver long-term objectives under each of the elements of the Breakthrough Objectives (Patient, People, Planet, and Data & Digital). This includes embedding a Quality Culture that focuses on patients, instilling a learning environment, and general project management oversight. This role will be the function lead for Quality Culture deployment.

• Drive change management by aligning with the OpU/Function Head of Quality, leading the design, development, and implementation of various change/transformation initiatives.

• Lead Quality update and communication efforts, including Periodic Highlights, Leadership Team (LT), Extended Leadership Team (ELT) and Townhall meetings, ensuring effective coordination and branding.

• Drive digital innovation across the OpU/Function Quality business processes.

• Develop and lead the implementation of the OpU/Function Digital Quality Business Process roadmap in accordance with the Global Quality Digital Roadmap.

• Identify opportunities and improvements to standardize, optimise and automate processes using digital technology and tools within the OpU/Function.

• Measure and grow digital awareness and capabilities across the OpU/Function Quality to support new ways of working. Develop programs as needed to enhance capabilities within Quality Business systems and processes with a focus on digital innovation to drive efficiencies.

What you bring to Takeda:

Education / experience

• Scientific or Business degree

• 10+ years of experience

• Industry experience as a plus

• Clear demonstration of increasing management responsibility combined with strong technical operations background.

• Awareness across all of the Quality disciplines (QA, QC, Compliance and Systems, Services and Improvement) and working in an international environment.

• Effective financial acumen and competencies to help GQ Leaders in Quality client group optimize mid/large organization.

• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Core Competencies / Skills

• Critical Thinking

• Current on local and global requirements

• Digital and analytical skills

• Investigation and problem solving

• Strong communication skills engaging stakeholders at all levels: site, business, network, company

• Strong listening skills and empathy

• Capacity to influence and persuade

• Expertise in designing and implementing organizational structures

• Risk identification, evaluation, and management

• Continuous improvement

Leadership Behaviors

• Strategic enterprise thinking, finding innovative ways to serve patients build reputation and trust.

• Creating the environment that helps inspire and enable people in OpU/Function.

• Focusing on the few priorities and provide superior results.

• Elevating capabilities for now and the future.

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

• Ability to develop strategy, goals, objectives, and targets in support of the GQ strategy to enable Takeda to fulfil its commitment to quality within its overall vision.

• Knowledge of Takeda strategy and business performance, and utilization of knowledge to anticipate long range planning.

Leadership

• An understanding of industry, scientific and regulatory trends, and market conditions, to help develop mid- and long-term strategy.

• Proven capability to lead and influence others without having direct managerial authority, driving initiatives, and achieving goals through strong interpersonal and motivational skills.

• Help build a patient-centered best in class organization, with diverse talent that elevates organizational performance.

• High level of contextual intelligence, with the ability to understand and adapt to various business contexts, cultures, and dynamics to make informed decisions.

• Ability to operate within and across multiple regions and cross functionally; leading and influencing in a matrix environment.

• Ability to cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders to support organizational goals.

Decision-making and Autonomy

• Accountability for decisions on the day-to-day operation of this function that align with OpU/Functional Quality, and Global Quality strategy.

• Decisions impact strategy deployment, organizational design and have important business outcomes and impact on employees.

Interaction

• Regular interactions with senior/executive leadership to facilitate and impact analysis discussions, operational assessments, and strategic projects.

• Business Acumen: Utilizes in-depth understanding of biopharmaceutical business to accurately develop and drive strategy and aligned initiatives.

• Extensive networking to build and leverage a wide range of contacts and relationships beneficial to the organization.

Innovation

• Unique contribution of thought, experience, background, and skills in a learning organization and leading change.

• A solid grasp of industry, scientific and regulatory trends, understands market conditions, and develops strategies with Quality colleagues to maintain Takeda’s regulatory profile in alignment with Global Quality efforts.

Complexity

• Global Quality strategic role.

• Global impact with broad product portfolio /sites/LOCs scope with significant importance to patients and business.

Important Considerations

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• May be required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and other clean room garments daily. This may include safety shoes, safety glasses, aprons, face shields, lab coats, full body gowns, hair nets and gloves and hearing protection.

• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.

• Work in a cold, wet environment.

• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.

• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

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.

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