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Manufacturing Department Head

Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality
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On the Global Manufacturing and Supply (GMS) team at Takeda, you’ll be part of a rapidly transforming industry that’s applying technology and data in new ways. Within our agile, innovative, people-centric organization, your work will matter every day as you use your skills to help us manufacture therapies for patients on our four platforms:

  • Small Molecules
  • Biologics
  • Plasma
  • Cell and Gene

As part of the GMS team, you'll have the opportunity to pursue unique experiences and build new skills, and you'll know that the work you do every day makes an impact — on our patients, our people, our planet, and on yourself.

Job ID R0147710 Date posted 03/24/2025 Location Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality

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Job Description

Job Title: Manufacturing Department Head

Location: Tianjin, China

About the role:

更好的提升天津工厂长远发展,致力于医药领域更加卓越的贡献。

How you will contribute:

  • Provide strong leadership and clear direction for a team in strategic and tactical ensure implementation of bussiness;
  • According to market demand and company resource organize preparation production, packaging, processing, technical improvement; ensure internal and external requirement are met;
  • Ensure that the activities carried out meet the legal requirements, policies, standards and procedures of the company regarding the quality and safety of employees, as well as the protection of the environment;
  • Optimize management regulations and system of production continuously; improve the overall production, operation and management capabilities of factory continuously;
  • Management of the validation portfolio: new products, new equipment, process changes, raw material changes, software changes or technology transfers;
  • Pharmacotechnical development of processing and packaging to change production in line with regulations and other industrial areas;
  • Optimize organization structure of the department; Manage and motivate people managing the professional development plan, reinforcing individual responsibility in achieving the established results for the area;
  • Elaborate investment plans and annual budgets identifying specific needs to the achievement of certain results as well as new business opportunities and technologies;
  • Enhance industrial hygiene and environmental sustainability to improve efficiency and sustainability;
  • Keep learning of DE&I and encourage employees understand what is DE&I via global and local differnt activities; 
  • Digital& innovation&automation.

\What you bring to Takeda:

  • At least Bachelors degree majored pharmacy, industry engineering, automation, chemistry or other relevant majors.
  • At least 10 years pharmaceutical production management experience. 5 years+ multi-national company experience is a plus.
  • At least 8 years team management experience.
  • Demonstrated passion for not accepting the status quo and self-driven to improve the business
  • Courage of conviction and open to critical feedback
  • A positive resiliant leader, comfortable networking and connecting people.
  • Program management capabilities
  • Exceptional coaching, teaching, presentation (oral and written), and facilitation skills
  • Courage to make difficult decisions and/or recommendations, comfortable with ambiguity
  • Courage/experience to provide coaching/feedback to all levels of the organization including superiors
  • Excellent listening skills and emotional intelligence
  • Systematic thinker, and strong knowledge of business processes
  • Flexibile and learning agile, demonstrating ability to assimilate new knowledge and standards quickly
  • Advanced English

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Empowering our people to shine:

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

Tianjin, China

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time
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