Enterprise Supplier Partnerships Lead

Takeda•Boston, MA

1d•$177,000 - $278,080

About The Position

The Enterprise Supplier Partnerships Lead enhances Takeda’s relationships with its most strategically important enterprise suppliers, turning them into partnerships that advance enterprise priorities. Working across Global Procurement and the business, the role establishes governance, aligns executive sponsors and cross-functional stakeholders, and creates joint agendas that deliver measurable value through innovation, resilience, quality, risk reduction, sustainability, operational improvement and commercial outcomes. The role helps Takeda present a coordinated enterprise position to selected suppliers and strengthens Takeda’s position as a customer of choice, enabling priority access to supplier capabilities, expertise and investment. The role owns relationship strategies for a select portfolio of top suppliers and builds multi-year joint value roadmaps. It establishes fit-for-purpose governance, executive sponsorship, decision rights, meeting cadence, escalation paths and cross-functional participation. It develops executive relationships with supplier leadership, facilitates strategic business reviews, and coordinates internal stakeholders across functions and geographies. The Lead identifies supplier-enabled opportunities, assesses strategic dependencies and reciprocal value, defines value cases and benefit-realization mechanisms, and maintains transparent reporting on outcomes and barriers. The role also establishes balanced scorecards, integrates performance and risk intelligence, leads resolution of significant relationship or performance issues, and provides leadership with recommendations on opportunities, relationship health, risks and resource prioritization. It advances Takeda’s supplier partnership capabilities through good-practice development, data and technology enablement, coaching and consistent organizational adoption.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Life Sciences or a related discipline.
At least 10 years of progressive experience in procurement, supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing, business partnership or a related discipline, including leadership of complex global supplier relationships.
Ability to operate at Director level, influence senior executives and align diverse stakeholders in a global matrix without relying on direct authority.
Proven success establishing enterprise governance, executive sponsorship models, joint business plans, supplier scorecards and structured escalation mechanisms.
Strong commercial judgment and understanding of contracts, total cost of ownership, value realization, negotiation, supplier economics and risk management.
Track record of converting supplier relationships into measurable outcomes such as innovation, resilience, quality improvement, cost optimization, sustainability or growth enablement.
Executive presence and strong relationship-building, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills, including the ability to challenge constructively and create shared accountability.
Strong analytical and storytelling capability, with the ability to translate complex performance, risk and opportunity data into clear decisions and recommendations.
Enterprise mindset, sound judgment and ability to balance long-term strategic opportunity with immediate operational and compliance requirements.
Ability to lead through ambiguity, manage multiple strategic priorities and sustain momentum in a fast-paced, international environment.
Business-level fluency in English.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.
Additional languages are an advantage.
Professional procurement, supply management or relationship-management certification (e.g., CIPS, CPSM or equivalent) is desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise relationship strategy for a select portfolio of top suppliers, translating Takeda’s priorities and supplier capabilities into partnership plans and multi-year joint value roadmaps.
Design and lead supplier governance, including executive sponsorship, relationship ownership, decision rights, meeting cadence, escalation paths and cross-functional participation.
Build trusted executive relationships with supplier leadership and prepare and facilitate strategic business reviews focused on future opportunities, enterprise priorities and mutual value.
Orchestrate stakeholders across Procurement, Finance, Quality, Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Sustainability, Operations, IT, R&D and relevant business functions to establish a unified Takeda position and deliver agreed actions.
Identify, qualify and advance supplier-enabled opportunities in innovation, new technologies, speed to market, process improvement, demand shaping, total cost of ownership, growth enablement and sustainability.
Assess strategic dependencies, supplier economics and the reciprocal value Takeda brings to relationships to strengthen supplier commitment and sustainable mutual value.
Define value cases, targets and benefit-realization mechanisms; maintain a transparent opportunity pipeline and communicate outcomes, barriers and decisions through evidence-based reporting.
Establish tailored and balanced scorecards covering service, quality, cost, innovation, collaboration, risk, compliance and strategic contribution, and ensure insights lead to accountable improvement plans.
Integrate supplier performance, relationship health and risk intelligence to strengthen continuity, capacity, resilience and compliance, distinguishing risk monitoring from performance improvement actions.
Lead resolution of significant supplier relationship or performance issues by aligning internal owners, engaging supplier executives, removing barriers and ensuring sustainable corrective actions.
Maintain an enterprise portfolio view of strategic supplier partnerships and provide leadership with evidence-based recommendations on value opportunities, relationship health, dependencies, risks, resource prioritization and executive interventions.
Advance Takeda’s enterprise supplier partnership capability by codifying good practices, improving data and technology enablement, coaching relationship owners and promoting consistent adoption.