Associate Director, GDO Business Analytics & Insights

Takeda•Cambridge, MA

2d•$154,400 - $242,550

About The Position

Takeda is seeking an Associate Director to develop and lead business analytics and insights for the Global Drug Operations (GDO) function. The role translates strategic and operational priorities into an analytics strategy aligned with organizational performance measures, and partners with internal and external stakeholders to develop, deploy, and encourage adoption of analytics for clinical study planning, execution, and reporting. The Associate Director will establish a new analytics and insights delivery capability, including its organizational design, recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance management. The role also aligns analytics work with data governance and modeling experts, ensures use of governed sources of truth, and serves as a subject matter expert on operational analytics, data visualization, and governance. It combines business and clinical development understanding with data, engineering, analytics, and machine-learning expertise to deliver solutions that are integrated into business processes and support leadership decision-making. The position is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a regular, full-time employee role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent in life sciences, computer science, mathematics, or a similar quantitative discipline.
At least 8 years of applicable business intelligence, data visualization, and/or drug development experience.
Global or international experience, including the ability to collaborate with colleagues and staff in other locations.
Experience in people leadership, managing global teams, and coordinating cross-functional collaboration.
Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into data needs.
Strong strategic thinking, planning, execution, and communication skills, with the ability to work at both operational and strategic levels.
Operational experience in pharmaceutical drug development, with significant direct exposure to clinical development.
Ability to work across functions, regions, and cultures and to engage senior stakeholders in a matrix environment.
Thorough knowledge of data visualization, business intelligence platforms, measures and metrics, and reporting solutions.
Ability to translate clinical development problems into analytics solutions and help others develop this skill.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex issues clearly and persuasively in writing and verbally.
Ability to make complex, enterprise-impacting decisions and to design and implement strategy for the designated scope.
Ability to incorporate feedback and base decisions on predictable delivery.
Demonstrated diversity and inclusion mindset and behavior.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
Global experience and drug development experience are strongly preferred.
Experience managing a data or business intelligence team.
Experience working with IT partners and vendors on business solutions.
Healthcare business acumen and a comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.
Experience in people leadership and managing global teams is advantageous.

Responsibilities

Translate GDO strategic and operational priorities into an analytics and insights strategy aligned with organizational performance measures.
Coordinate with internal and external groups to develop, deploy, and promote adoption of platform analytics for clinical study planning, execution, and reporting.
Build a new analytics and insights delivery capability, including organizational design, recruiting, onboarding, training, and performance management.
Lead adoption of analytics solutions, bespoke insights, and predictive-modeling deliverables.
Develop an analytics strategy to support GDO metrics and success measures.
Design and implement methods to prioritize deliverables and track execution, project status, and risks.
Partner with GDO business leads and study teams to assess bespoke analytics feasibility, translate business requirements into analytics projects, and arrange access to necessary data sources.
Prioritize analytics and insights requests based on functional priorities, trial operational data strategy, and delivery capacity.
Support the Senior Director, Trial Delivery Data Strategy, in identifying priority problem statements and coordinating analytics solutions with Takeda functions, GCM teams, and external vendors.
Evaluate and communicate data-visualization practices, predictive models and techniques, and relevant industry knowledge.
Oversee and collaborate on the design and execution of bespoke analytics for specific trial needs.
Work with DSDS, R&D data governance, and data-modeling teams to ensure analytics use governed sources of truth and follow data-governance principles.
Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for operational analytics, insights, and data visualization.
Build a collaborative, high-performing environment and model Takeda leadership behaviors.
Develop working relationships with internal groups, external collaborators, strategic vendors, service providers, and universities to assess emerging methods and their viability.
Work across GDO functions to develop, plan, and manage bespoke analytics and machine-learning initiatives.