Senior End to End Supply Chain Lead, Gastro-Enterology and Immunology

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Job Description

About the role:

This role oversees the supply plan for designated brands across Takeda’s manufacturing network, ensuring continuity of supply to patients. It leads a team managing end-to-end planning, with direct or matrixed reporting, and is responsible for setting and achieving brand-level KPIs while driving continuous improvement and financial optimization. The position ensures compliance with Takeda’s global standards, including process and system adherence and master data completeness. With a broad scope, it leads a team and manages a complex supply chain for multiple brands and significant revenue.

Accountabilities

• Manage supply planning for designated brands, ensuring uninterrupted patient supply.
• Oversee the 3 key assets that drive over 30% of Takeda's revenue, ensuring seamless operations, strategic efficiency, and impactful business outcomes.
• Lead and develop a team managing end-to-end supply chain planning.
• Set and achieve brand-level KPI targets, driving continuous improvement and financial optimization.
• Ensure compliance with Takeda’s global standards, including process, system adherence, and master data completeness.
• Manage lifecycle activities such as long-term supply planning, launch management, and geographic expansion.
• Lead and participate in projects within and beyond direct responsibilities.
• Represent the supply chain in cross-functional teams, acting as the link to manufacturing, finance, quality, regulatory, and other key stakeholders.
• Oversee supply assessments for changes requiring regulatory filings.
• Supervise post-launch legal flow changes unless managed by designated project groups.
• Navigate a highly complex supply chain, balancing operational efficiency with strategic growth initiatives.
  

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus.
• At least 3 years of experience in a managerial or leadership role in a complex environment.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in supply chain, production planning, or related fields, managing multi-product, multi-echelon batch production planning.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is highly advantageous.
• Exposure with SAP/APO planning, with a strong preference for IBP expertise.
• Proficiency in supply chain and advanced planning systems, including ERP platforms such as SAP, C3ME, or similar.
• Proven ability to define and implement digital strategies across the supply chain value chain.
• Strong background in Lean processes and methodologies.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence, inspire, and align cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive and collaborative team culture.
• Resilience and agility to navigate ambiguity, adapt to change, and drive solutions in complex environments.
  

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, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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