Head of RAPID at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts

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Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine?

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

POSITION OBJECTIVES:

The Head of Rapid

• directs a team of investigators whose purpose is to facilitate successful resolution of major commercial manufacturing investigations


• leads a team to develop and implement digital and data science tools that reduce investigational timelines


• directs a team to develop and implement tools and strategies, in partnership with Quality, that raise the investigational capability of GMSGQ

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Direct a team of lead investigators to provide technical support for resolving process/product investigations with the potential to disrupt product supply to patients.


• Define, deploy and continuously improve tools for resolving commercial manufacturing investigations.


• Accountable for the RAPID business process and its operating mechanisms.


• Create systems that increase the flow of actionable knowledge within Global Manufacturing and Supply and Global Quality to increase the probability of resolving commercial investigations.


• Direct a team of investigators who develop and implement data science strategies that derive actionable intelligence from a knowledge database of commercial investigation root causes.

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

• Broad technical knowledge and experience within the GMP environment, across different product types (Drug Substance, Drug Product, etc).


• Demonstrated experience solving complex scientific problems.


• Working knowledge in applying a wide range of statistical and data analytics analyses to a pharmaceutical production/research environment.


• Experience working in Quality management systems and processes.


• Identify, and apply, data analytics to derive results that inform the process, business, or compliance-related improvements to applicable units or functions.


• Partners with stakeholders to develop and implement methods that leverage data from external suppliers in support of commercial investigation resolution.

Leadership

• Lead a team of investigators who develop, teach, and model the use of investigation-resolving tools, including data analytics, in a cross-functional matrix environment.


• Create an environment that inspires and enables people to achieve operational and professional goals.


• Strategic enterprise thinking, finding innovative ways to serve patients, build reputation and trust.


• Set the strategy of a global team in alignment with a matrix of organizational functions.


• Direct complex projects through cross-functional teams.


• Coaches direct reports and cross-functional teams on the appropriate application of investigative skills.

Decision-making and Autonomy

• Authority, in partnership with relevant stakeholders, to approve designed experiments and the resulting interpretation of the data.


• Authority, in partnership with relevant stakeholders, to approve the interpretation of analyzed commercial manufacturing data.


• Determines methods and procedures to be applied during investigations.


• Allocates appropriate investigative resources to provide subject matter expertise and problem-solving into API and drug product processes, functional and project-related activities.

Interaction

• Well-versed in functional commercial manufacturing and quality practices.


• Comfortable with delivering presentations to, and managing interactions with, Takeda executives.


• Partners with peers to identify and capitalize upon opportunities that grow the organization’s investigative capabilities.


• Engages stakeholders to understand, and deliver on, customer needs.


• Build and nurture partnerships with Global Quality stakeholders to streamline the resolution of commercial investigations.

Innovation

• Direct the team to find and capture value through the application of a continuous improvement paradigm.


• Direct a team to create and apply innovative solutions for reducing commercial investigation timelines by capitalizing on Takeda’s North Star framework


• Engages customers over time to anticipate and have strategies in place that address future needs and challenges

Complexity

• Ability to understand and simplify complex processes


• Will address investigational issues across the full portfolio of products (35 internal sites, 60+ CMOs, all Biologics, Small Molecule, and Plasma products)

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES, AND SKILLS: 

Education / experience

• Minimum


• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biochemistry, or chemical engineering.9 years experience in commercial bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Skills

• Demonstrated experience with Quality management systems (eg Trackwise)


• Demonstrated ability to develop data analytics tools (i.e. Python, Qliks)Demonstrated knowledge of cGMP

Effective November 1, 2021, absent an approved religious or medical reason, all US office-based and lab-based Takeda employees who work fully on-site or in a hybrid model (as determined by Takeda) must be fully vaccinated to work at a Takeda site or to engage with Takeda colleagues or anyone else on behalf of Takeda. As of the same date, absent an approved religious or medical reason, US field-based employees, employees must be fully vaccinated in order to continue in their current roles.  US employees who work at a Takeda manufacturing facility, and those who work at a BioLife center or BioLife lab, may be subject to different guidelines. Candidates are encouraged to speak with their recruiter to seek further information on the applicable guidelines for the Business Unit/Function for which they have applied.

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