Head of Takeda China Innovation Center (TCIC)

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Job Description

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Chengdu has been selected to be home to Takeda’s Innovation Capability Center in China. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.  

At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team.

OPPORTUNITY:

We are taking a giant step forward to create a future ready organization that evolves at the speed of science and technology, to meet the needs of patients by seeking and incorporating novel digital capabilities, data, and agile methodologies. Our aim is to provide digital solutions that are personalized to each patient’s unique needs and health circumstances. With individual care at the center, we can support patients in actively managing their personal care journey – from the moment they are diagnosed through treatment and beyond. Our Global data and digital team plays an integral role in accelerating this exciting journey.

Takeda is building its Data, Digital and Technology Global Delivery Model. 

As the Head of the Innovation Capability Center in China at Takeda, you will play a pivotal role in leading the digital evolution and global transformation within the Chinese market. Your responsibilities will include managing a technology delivery team at the ICC site in China, focusing solely on driving innovation and business development tailored for the Chinese market. You will be accountable for recruiting and retaining a high-performing team, operationalizing the capability center, and establishing Takeda's brand reputation as a digital and data-driven biotechnology company in China.

This role will have budget responsibility and a direct accountability for site employees.

Key Objectives:

• Recruit, hire, onboard, and retain a collaborative team
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to operationalize the capability center
• Advocate for delivery center capabilities and technologies
• Establish and oversee objectives, processes, and digital accelerators
• Build and maintain Takeda's brand reputation in the China market

Key Delivery Capabilities Duties:

• Oversee service delivery and day-to-day operations of the capability center
• Define and implement Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and quality standards
• Review and monitor key performance indicators
• Establish quality control mechanisms and periodic quality assurance reviews

Accountabilities:

• Provide leadership and implement strategic direction and goals for the center.
• Lead, develop and empower an efficient, effective, and agile Capability Center team to deliver exceptional capabilities and services for the Global Data and Digital organization in China
• Drive a consistent and positive user experience, embedding a Digital and Agile mindset and culture throughout the transformation journey.
• Ensure effective Teamwork and collaboration both within Takeda and with any 3rd party outsourced provider, and with all interfacing functions in country including Finance, Corporate Affairs, Compliance and Legal.
• Enhance career experiences in country / region and build next generation technology capabilities to enable today’s and future organizational strategic objectives.
• Act as a Transformation Lead for the site and for the broader region

CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE:

Our strategic goal is to make Takeda the most trusted, data-driven, outcome-based biopharmaceutical company Our Ambition is :

• Inspire, engage, and prepare unique stakeholder groups – shaping a strong, motivational, realistic vision and plan that appeals to GDD&T and business audiences, that we use to engage relentlessly and prepare for the new ways of working.
• New-skill in cloud + digital capabilities – stitching together data & cloud technologies to meet our patients needs solve business challenges, and advance Takeda digital Strategy
• Encourage a Learner Mindset – utilizing purposeful, small experiments to de-risk change and fully unlock human potential throughout the journey.
• Use analytics to drive the journeys – to shape the business readiness and engagement plan and deliver targeted change interventions that matter.
• Get trusted leaders out front – and enable Takeda’s people to be advocates of our new business as usual, forming a group of inspiring individuals, energizing our teams, and steering the way together

TECHNICAL/FUNCIONAL (LINE) EXPERTISE:

• Proven record of standing up, scaling and running a delivery capability ( 50+ FTEs) in  China
• Deep expertise in end-to-end digital product delivery with an Agile Operating Model
• Ability to build consensus and drive change across broad group of senior stakeholders to deliver against a multi-year plan
• Serves in full time capacity in China and has strong professional network, understanding of local market and ways of working

LEADERSHIP:

• Strong strategic thinking and decision making
• Demonstrated success in leading IT and technical teams
• Experience developing and managing high performing teams in high volume and high pressure environment
• Ability to form strong working relationships across a matrix environment with ability to collaborate and influence executive leadership
• Excellent communication, listening and influencing skills; ability to listen, anticipate customer needs and influence solutions.
• Act as a change agent, drive GDD&T culture and mindset within the country and region

DECISION-MAKING AND AUTONOMY:

• Technically strong with proven ability to make sound decisions and lead data and digital technology projects to successful completion
• Ability to lead effectively and work concurrently across multiple priorities in a goal-oriented, timeline driven, and remote management work environment
• Solutions oriented, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and develop qualitative and quantitative approaches for identifying and assessing various options to provide solutions
• Strong business acumen with an ability to understand the business implications of decisions
• Result oriented – drives to pragmatic solutions and balances the ideal with the practical in order to deliver best value to the organization
• Makes timely decisions and translates strategy into action. Ensures impact is quantified, tracked and realized

INTERACTION:

• Establishes credibility and earns respect within country and across senior level GDD&T stakeholders. Able to facilitate alignment without compromising principles
• Engage with the GDLT to understand current and anticipate future requirements
• Able to influence without authority

INNOVATION:

• Challenges the status quo to drive a greater value and growth for the business
• Drive simplification, innovation and continuous improvement activities while ensuring business continuity and minimal business disruptions
• Ensures sharing knowledge and best practices across the center, IT sites and across GDD&T globally
• Applies digital environment knowledge to create better solutions and insights

COMPLEXITY:

• Operating in a complex, R&D centric heavily regulated environment
• Demonstrated capability to successfully collaborate in a matrix organization and manage a complex cross functional environment driving the execution in a local environment
• Drives the changes in country and within the Capability center, has the combination of process, project and change management

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Desirable: Masters in business administration
• Required: Bachelor’s degree in related technical field
• High degree of integrity, confidence and self-awareness
• Confident and persuasive with strong influencing skills; able to win internal support for new ideas and initiatives
• Appreciates, understands and effectively negotiates within and across other cultures
• Customer centric and solutions orientated aptitude with demonstrable experience in providing solutions based on customer needs
• Interpersonal Skills: Good people leadership and management skills (e.g. energetic, visionary, motivational, resilient & highly driven individual who thrives on professional challenges)
• Strong negotiation & interpersonal skills (e.g. tact/diplomacy, persuasion, cooperation, ability to motivate others)
• Experienced in handling sensitive and confidential issues/ situations and cultural sensitivities
• Problem-solving and entrepreneurial mind-set driven to create and innovate
• Experience in pharmaceutical companies advantageous
• Experience from M&A programs preferred
• Desirable: China digital health development relevant knowledge/practice based in China medical device law and policy environment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Flexibility in working hours due to demands of the role and the organization
• Travel requirements: Flexibility to travel (~20 - 30%).

WHAT TAKEDA CAN OFFER YOU:

• Takeda is certified as a Top Employer globally. No investment we make pays greater dividends than taking good care of our people.
• At Takeda, you take the lead on building and shaping your own career.
• Joining the ICC in TCIC will give you access to high-end technology, continuous training and a diverse and inclusive network of colleagues who will support your career growth.

ABOUT ICC IN TAKEDA:

• Takeda is leading a digital revolution. We’re not just transforming our company; we’re improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day.
• As an organization, we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the ICCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization

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