Head of Data, Digital & Technology, Growth & Emerging Markets

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Job Description

How you will contribute:

• Joint accountability for co-creation of the DD&T value creation strategy for region and realization of business outcomes across the region in close collaboration with Country GMs and regional Executive team

• Lead and inspire the DD&T transformation in the region and LOCs i.e. work with General Managers and regional executive teams. Challenge the status quo where necessary

• DD&T delivery and operations leveraging the GPD DD&T CoEs as well as global DD&T/ICC resources. Ensure that regional/LOC business priorities are fully enabled and prioritize DD&T resources appropriately

• Elevate capabilities and fully embrace Data & Digital into the ways of working and opportunities to make the business future ready and financially sustainable

• Co-design the GPD DD&T Strategy and focus areas with the DD&T CoEs, balancing the resourcing with LOC DDT heads while ensuring the critical strategic interface and visibility of focus between the regional executive team (EET, GEM LT) and GPD DD&T

• Lead and inspire the LOC DD&T Heads from a functional perspective and drive a strong DD&T community across the region, ensuring exchange of best practices and elevation of capabilities at scale.

• Drive the DD&T focus in business reviews with the regional team and drive the strategic focus in the LOC (e.g. where we intend LOCs to invest vs not)

Behaviourial Competencies and Skills:

Functional

• Strong understanding of business strategy, disease areas, and elements of commercial, medical, access etc.

• Strong understanding and experience with digital innovation and understanding of the opportunities to create value for the business through DD&T

• Strong communicator and ability to simplify the complex

• Working knowledge of the DD&T eco-system in Takeda surrounding Patients, HCPs, and other stakeholders.

• Lead and drive digital transformation with franchises and business functions across the region and are able to both influence and collaborate across senior stakeholder landscape. Have a track record of implementing and experiencing challenges of the region & / LOC context, and the needs of LOC well. Is able to synthesize opportunities at the LOC level

Behavioral

• Stakeholder Management: Ability to manage a complex multi-faceted array of internal and external stakeholders at region, global, and LOC levels through strong executive presence, effective communication skills, influence, and persuasion.

• Business Acumen: Strong business acumen and understanding of customer needs through previous experience leading business unit, LOCs or GTM functions 

• Communication: Ability to communicate ideas persuasively and clearly to lead others into action and build collaborative relationships in complex cross-functional and cross-regional settings.

• Empathy and collaboration: Strong ability to connect across the GPD organization through listening, collaborating, and inspiring trust-based partnerships to deliver results aligned as an LT in line with GPD BU / BFs

• Agile and adaptable: Ability to embrace new concepts and adapt to new situations with agility, demonstrating flexibility in a rapidly evolving industry.

• Inspirational Leadership: Ability to inspire and influence without authority, develop talent as the organization evolves, and create a positive team culture through inspirational leadership.

• Strategic leadership: enable co-creation of the strategy for the BU, and partner with Medical, regions, MCE and LOCs to drive performance and execution

• Putting forth (bold) ideas and opinions and be able to influence senior stakeholders, inspire teams without direct authority to deliver and prioritize competing requests while developing a regional community that elevates DDT capabilities in the business. Strong judgement is key to influence business, what is for greater good critical.

What you bring to Takeda:

Education:

• Master degree or higher in computer science, technology or life sciences

• MBA degree is a plus

• Relevant professional certification in Agile delivery e.g. Scrum

Experience:

• Management and leadership experience in a business / technology role in a similar sized organisation or busi-ness unit

• Hands-on experience of agile delivery management with mixed teams of inhouse and external de-velopers

• Experience of successfully building, managing and motivating multidisciplinary inhouse digital and technology teams

• Experience of planning and delivering products and services using agile development techniques to meet customer expectations and deliver cost effective robust solutions and digital products

• Experience of technology operations management and the use of new technologies to improve pa-tient journey, and cost effectiveness and performance

• Experience of managing technology-enabled change projects

• Experience of setting up and managing outsourced contracts for delivery and development of technology solutions and services

Additional Information

• Travel to regional and global meetings and stakeholders.  

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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