Director, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology (QCP) Lead

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Job Description

Takeda is a global, values-based, R&D-driven, top 10 biopharmaceutical leader committed to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments, guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet.

Our Data and Quantitative Sciences group (DQS) is made up of more than 500 quantitative scientists who harness the insight of data and digital to speed the development of highly innovative treatments to patients. These scientists (from quantitative pharmacology & translational sciences, statistics, programming, outcomes research and epidemiology, and patient safety & pharmacovigilance) bring their expertise to our global program teams and reimagine our disciplines. They work with novel data streams, including real-world data and digital tools, and apply advanced analytics including artificial intelligence and automation.

As part of QPTS, the Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology (QCP) Team at Takeda consists of therapeutically aligned teams who drive the clinical pharmacology strategy from pre-FIH through life-cycle management within the global project team. The QCP role works in partnership with other functional experts such as DMPK&M, TB&B, and Pharmacometrics to drive a MIDD path within each project, ensuring that mechanistic understanding through systems pharmacology and biomarker insights informs clinical development strategies.

Position Objectives:

• Leads strategic, scientific, and operational aspects of multiple drug development projects with a high level of technical and strategic independence from first in human dosing through life cycle management. Drives the integration of biological, pharmacological, and clinical insights and possesses primary responsibility for dosage selection and generation of causality evidence across the drug development continuum.
• Provides additional portfolio support through program reviews, collaborative decision-making, infrastructure and best practice initiatives.
• Explores and excels in synergistic relationships with experts in translational sciences, digital health, global outcomes/epidemiology, biostatistics, and other key data science disciplines.
• Serves as an ambassador of Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology (QCP) and Data Sciences Institute (DSI) to the R&D organization and the external scientific community through high-value participation at scientific meetings and impactful publications.

Accountabilities:  

• Provides scientific and strategic leadership as the Global or Regional Clinical Pharmacology Lead for multiple projects on Global Program Teams and associated scientific and operational sub-teams.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with discovery, toxicology, and other QPTS functions to ensure that preclinical findings are effectively translated into clinical biomarker plans and exploratory endpoints.
• Be responsible for drafting and executing clinical pharmacology plans, including integration of M&S, in close collaboration with key partner functions (e.g., pharmacometrics, statistics, and DMPK).
• Enables impactful Model-Informed Drug Development (MIDD) practices and advanced modeling and simulation approaches (e.g., QSP, MBMA) to inform internal decisions and external regulatory interactions.
• Represents Clinical Pharmacology in meetings with global or regional regulatory agencies and is responsible for clinical pharmacology