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Job Description

About the role:

As a CMC Lead, Small Molecules (Associate Director), you will be responsible for leading and managing the engineering operations within the organization. You will focus on ensuring standards of quality, cost, safety, reliability, and performance are met in production processes. You will develop and implement new products, processes, and standards, this role supports Takeda's mission to bring better health to people and a brighter future to the world.

How you will contribute:

• Provide strong direction to CMC Leads to drive effective life cycle management for Takeda’s commercial small molecule portfolio.

• Provide strong leadership for initiatives which are complex or span across multiple products.

• Lead a small team within GMSci small molecule to work across other GMSci organizations, internal and external manufacturing sites, and Pharmaceutical Sciences to define directions for technology excellence and innovation including digital solutions and data analytics.

• Drive effective communication for group activities across the organization including leading regular reviews of product and method performance, continuous improvement plans, and experimental approaches, to lead global process-related change controls or initiatives and to perform the global reporting of process performance.

• Lead multiple CMC teams with competing priorities.

• Able to determine priorities within Takeda’s portfolio with ambiguity without full information.

• Able to work through uncertainty and lead the team to a resolution in decision.

• Has a deep and broad understanding of small molecule manufacturing, the regulatory environment, life cycle management, trends in innovation, and financial acumen.

• Scope includes innovation in manufacturing equipment, manufacturing processes, and use of digitaltechnologytoprovide data-drivenapproaches.

Complexity

• Manageswithamatrixofreportinglinesandacrossfunctionalarea

• Provides leadership to drive highly complex projects involving cutting across multiple sites andproducts.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelordegreeinengineeringorlifesciences.

• Minimum 8 – 15 years of experience in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.

• Experienceoperatinggloballyinamatrixedorganizationhighlypreferred.

• Experiencedefiningthestrategyandroadmapforcomplex,cross-functionalinitiatives.

• Must be self-motivated, have good interpersonal skills, capable of analyzing and solving complexproblemsthroughinnovativethoughtandexperience, aswellas,projectmanagementtools.

• Strategicenterprisethinking,findinginnovativewaystoservepatientsbuildreputationandtrust.

• Creatingtheenvironmentthatinspiresandenablespeople.

• Focusingonthefewprioritiesandprovidesuperiorresults.

• Elevatingcapabilitiesfornowandthefuture .

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

Boston, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$153,600.00 - $241,340.00

EEO Statement

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Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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