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Senior Director, Design & Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences (cambridge, MA)

Lead global digital product strategy to accelerate medicine development and delivery
Boston
Senior
$208,200 – 327,140 USD / year
2 days ago
Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

A global, research-driven pharmaceutical company specializing in oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.

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Head Of Design & Delivery, PharmSci

The Head Of Design & Delivery, PharmSci will lead the global digital product strategy across Takeda's Pharmaceutical Sciences Digital Data & Technology (DDT) portfolio driving innovation and operational excellence across the CMC lifecycle.

This leadership role is accountable for shaping and delivering innovative, compliant, and business-aligned digital solution. You will manage a global team of product managers and work cross-functionally to ensure that Takeda's technology platforms are innovation, modern, scalable, and enable faster delivery of medicines to patients.

Accountabilities:

  • Drive the delivery strategy for multi-year enterprise impacting programs and products including critical digital transformation initiatives.
  • Elevate the product management teams to be seen as strategic partners ensuring delivery of fit for purpose digital solutions that meet the evolving needs of PharmSci and beyond.
  • Define and execute the strategic product roadmap across PharmSci products.
  • Structure and resource product teams based on demand planning to support strategic roadmaps.
  • Ensure platforms are integrated, compliant, and user-centric across all business areas.
  • Build, upskill, and lead a high-performing global product management team.
  • Collaborate with senior leaders across PharmSci, Research and RDDT including Business Partners, Tech Services, Data and AI delivery to align technology strategies with evolving business needs.
  • Identify and integrate emerging technologies into the product portfolio to drive operational excellence and innovation in CMC and device design.
  • Ensure all products are developed and maintained in compliance with global regulations and Takeda's quality and risk management standards.
  • Work closely with architecture, engineering, quality, and data teams to ensure scalable and interoperable solutions across R&D.
  • Represent PharmSci product leadership in strategic governance forums, investment planning committees, and external regulatory or industry working groups as needed.
  • Ensures alignment of product solutions to Takeda's short and long-term goals.
  • Leads and mentors Product Oriented Delivery (POD) Leads, Technical Leads, Business Analysts, and Quality Engineers.
  • Provides guidance and coaching to team members and teams.
  • Drive alignment between POD capacity and evolving business needs.
  • Responsible for stakeholder management, driving cross-functional collaboration, cross enterprise influence and communication to ensure smooth project/product delivery and alignment with stakeholder expectations.
  • Handles risk management, identifying potential project/product risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
  • Oversees project budgets, resource allocation, and timelines to ensure timely delivery of projects within budget and in adherence to quality standards.

Education & Competencies (Technical and Behavioral): Required:

  • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MS) strongly preferred.
  • 12+ years of experience in pharmaceutical R&D technology or digital product leadership roles, with deep expertise across Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • Strong understanding of CMC processes, GxP, regulatory compliance and global quality standards.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead product teams through complex, regulated environments using modern product management and agile delivery frameworks.
  • Strategic thinker with outstanding leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Proven success managing global teams, product portfolios, and vendor ecosystems.
  • Minimum 8 years of people leadership experience within a technology or product development environment and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.

Preferred:

  • Master's degree in Information Technology, Life Sciences or a related field.

Technical Competencies:

  • Experience with technology platforms such as Tetracience, PLM, OpenLabs, MES, SAP ERP, and/or both regulated and non-regulated lab informatics and automation tools.
  • Knowledge of current industry trends and emerging technologies in the R&D and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • Ability to propose and prioritize future technical investments, assessing trade-offs between technical risks and potential benefits/rewards.
  • Knowledge of product management and key trends associated with them.
  • Knowledge of project management principles and methodologies with a proven track record in delivering complex technology projects.

Behavioral Competencies:

  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.
  • Experience with prototyping tools and techniques.
  • Demonstrated verbal and written communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to manage and influence a variety of stakeholders at all levels.
  • Ability to make highly complex decisions that impact the enterprise.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively under pressure and adapt to changing priorities.
  • Ability to manage financial and people resources across multiple business functions, portfolios, and projects.
  • Ability to understand and collaborate with customer and/or business partner needs through dialogue to resolve conflict in a constructive manner, before recommending solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to work across functions, regions and cultures.
  • Enterprise level leadership with the ability to inspire, motivate and drive results.
  • Ability to present complex information clearly and with confidence.
  • Proven skills as an effective team player who can engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company.
  • Foster solutions-oriented thinking by fostering a culture of performance, accountability, simplicity, empowerment, external orientation and curiosity.
  • Effectively navigates the changing external and internal environment and leads others through change by creating and inspiring and engaging workplace.
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Senior Director, Design & Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences (cambridge, MA)
Boston
$208,200 – 327,140 USD / year
Design
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A global, research-driven pharmaceutical company specializing in oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.