Takeda Pharmaceutical Company - Lexington, MA
posted 4 months ago
Join Takeda as a Director, External Data Governance & Execution where you will play a crucial role in driving and navigating transformative initiatives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, adaptability, and growth. You will also play a vital role in this mission by overseeing and managing the performance and delivery of the data vendor community, coordinating on the approach to data ingestion in concert with Data, Digital and technology (DD&T), and managing the book of business and all related documentation. The Director of External Data Governance & Execution comprehensively manages the rules and processes that define the provisioning of externally sourced data both in regards to the responsibilities of the suppliers upstream from Takeda as well as how it is delivered to corporate systems. As part of the Commercial Data Management & Strategy (CDMS), you will report to the Head of U.S. Commercial Data Management & Strategy and partner with Business Unit (BU), Master Data, Sales Operations, and DD&T colleagues, as well as external partners. In this role, you will partner with an extensive network of external data suppliers to oversee and take accountability for the delivery of high-quality data to ensure that performance measures up to or exceeds contracted service level agreements. You will engage with stakeholders to enable business strategies and provide thought leadership on opportunities where external data partners and capabilities play an important role. Your responsibilities will include providing data governance and execution leadership, developing roadmaps and strategic plans to articulate the vision, and partnering with DD&T in concert with the data acquisition and master data domain leads as the expert and senior conduit to the technical partners within data vendors to initiate new actions as well as to remediate and resolve challenges. You will also be responsible for driving cultural improvements within the team, managing change effectively while cultivating a culture of transparency and continuous improvement, and championing the enhancement of data literacy among team members. Additionally, you will orchestrate and oversee compliant processes and policies for the intake of externally sourced data, liaise with privacy/ethics/compliance to ensure adherence to Takeda standards and related governance expectations, and manage the contractual book of business and all aspects of the contract lifecycle in partnership with Finance and Procurement. Your role will also involve monitoring and controlling all supplier-based project activities and ensuring performance and delivery meet contracted expectations, as well as providing data investigation case management and tracking for complex and escalated matters requiring cross-functional teamwork and research across the USBU.