Director, Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Manufacturing Business Operations

3316 Takeda Development Center Americas•Lexington, MA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This role provides team leadership to ensure PharmSci business processes are operating smoothly, partners with Procurement to deliver year-over-year savings targets, and supports PharmSci in the development of SOWs, contracts, and additional purchasing support. The position involves developing a strategic vision that benefits stakeholders in the short term and supports the long-term vision of the organization. It requires developing tools and trackers for streamlined decision-making and executive reporting, ensuring all related activities are synchronized, implemented, monitored, and reported. The role also leads the PharmSci Clinical Manufacturing transformation, managing the transformation roadmap and workstreams, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and leadership to ensure successful assessment, execution, and sustainability of strategic initiatives. Effective stakeholder engagement, communication, and cross-functional alignment are crucial. The role includes developing measurement systems to assess transformation activities, establishing feedback mechanisms for improvement, providing strategic advice to leaders, and assisting workstreams with process excellence, project management, and change management. Partnering with functional counterparts to develop training and communication strategies is also a key responsibility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in science or business-related field required.
Minimum 10 years of R&D or consulting experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
Minimum 8 years of people management experience and/or leading global complex matrix teams.
Demonstrated experience in large-scale strategy implementation, workforce restructuring, outsourcing, mergers, or value capture initiatives; ideally with experience in M&A or integration.
Demonstrated experience and significant accountability for mission-critical deliverables (e.g., within the supply chain or plant operations, bioprocesses, CMC, formulation, quality or R&D operations).
Strong strategic and operational background with a track record of delivering results in a complex, global environment.
Detail-oriented but able to develop and drive an over-arching strategic plan/agenda.
Assertiveness to be comfortable leading organizational change with a great deal of compassion and empathy and being firm about ways of working and commitments.
Ability to comprehend, organize and synthesize complex data, identify issues and trends, and develop and implement solutions to achieve multi-level objectives.
Ability to collaborate and influence effectively with various senior leaders, partners, regions, corporate divisions, and cultures.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload, reliably meet deadlines, and rapidly make decisions.
Strong business and financial acumen.
Aptitude for structured thinking.
Strong written and oral communication skills—including presentation and persuasive communication.

Nice To Haves

Advanced science or business degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide team leadership to ensure PharmSci business processes are operating smoothly (CapEx, OpEx, Governance).
Partner with Procurement to deliver year-over-year savings targets.
Support PharmSci in the development of SOWs, contracts and any additional purchasing support.
Develop a strategic vision that works across all PharmSci functions and delivers significant benefits to stakeholders in the short term and supports a long-term vision of the organization.
Develop tools and trackers to streamline decision making and support executive reporting.
Ensure that all related activities are synchronized, implemented, monitored, and reported, including the creation and management of timelines, risk management plans, dashboards, and scorecards.
Lead PharmSci Clinical Manufacturing transformation that incorporates proactive and innovative solutions to address strategic objectives.
Manage transformation roadmap and workstreams (sequencing, risks, issues, opportunities, resource plans, change management strategies, progress tracking, and budgets).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and leadership at all levels to ensure successful assessment, execution and sustainability of strategic initiatives.
Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communication at all levels of the organization.
Ensure cross-functional/organizational alignment in the design, execution, and integration of strategic initiatives.
Develop a measurement system and/or tool to assess awareness, understanding, buy-in, and support of transformation and/or change management activities.
Develop feedback mechanisms at strategic touch points to facilitate open discussions of improvement opportunities and execution challenges (with a view to quickly implementing refinements or solutions).
Provide strategic advice and counsel leaders to ensure that all functional activities, tracking, and expectations are consistent with objectives.
Assist workstreams and workstream leads with skills in process and execution excellence, project management, facilitation, problem-solving, change management, and value creation.
Partner with functional counterparts to develop training and communication strategies as well as specific curricula and content.