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Job Description
About the role:
At Takeda, we are guided by our purpose of Better Health for People, Brighter Future for the World and our commitment to patients, our people and the planet. As we continue to evolve our portfolio through acquisitions, partnerships, and divestitures, the ability to transition and integrate assets seamlessly is essential to delivering on our commitments to patients, regulators, and partners.
We are seeking a Director to join the R&D Asset Transition & Integration Office (RATIO), the function responsible for executing R&D asset transitions across integrations, in-licensing, asset wind-downs, divestments, and externalizations. In this role you will lead a team of transition professionals, hold accountability for a portfolio of live transitions, primarily asset wind-downs, and drive the digitization and process optimization agenda that makes each transition faster and more predictable than the last. You may also lead transitions of your own depending on volume and complexity of work.
You will operate at the intersection of science, operations, and strategy—building the capability as well as running it, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and data integrity.
How you will contribute:
As a leader within RATIO, you will:
Lead and develop a team of transition professionals; set objectives, allocate assignments across the book of work, and manage performance, capability and career development
Hold accountability for a portfolio of live transitions, ensuring budgets, schedules and performance standards are realistically set and attained; lean into more complex or sensitive transitions
Own and/or support the design and implementation of a digitized, data-driven transition processes
Drive and/or support process optimization across transition archetypes: standardized playbooks, templates and process maps, defined KPIs, and a continuous improvement cycle informed by structured lessons learned
Govern the operating model, ways of working, and operational agreements between RATIO and the functions it depends on
Provide strategic insight to senior leadership, including portfolio-level status, risk assessment, and resourcing plans
Support build of organizational capability through training curricula, knowledge management, and the development of less experienced colleagues
Ensure compliance and integrity across the portfolio, including contractual obligations, regulatory requirements, safety commitments, and data governance
What Makes This Role Unique:
This role is part of an innovative capability that is leading across the pharma industry. Accordingly, you'll be close to some of the most complex and high-impact work in R&D. You will:
Shape how Takeda executes asset transitions and RATIO shows up as a brand
Lead a team while remaining hands-on with priority transitions
Work across the full breadth of R&D functions rather than within a single discipline
Modernize a capability with current technology and people capabilities and real latitude to design the future state
Represent Takeda to external partners and counterparties at senior level
Success in this role requires someone who has a learning mindset, balances operational rigor with judgement, builds capability in others, and drives alignment across a highly matrixed, global environment.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
Minimum Bachelor's degree in a scientific or related field required; advanced degree welcomed
10+ years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, particularly in R&D strategy and operations and/or program management
Demonstrated people management experience,…