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Job Description

About the role:

At Takeda, we are a forward-looking, world-class R&D organization that unlocks innovation and delivers transformative therapies to patients. By focusing R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas and other targeted investments, we push the boundaries of what is possible in order to bring life-changing therapies to patients worldwide.

Join Takeda as an Associate Director, CMC Digital Product Development where you will be tasked with designing and iterating an data ecosystem to provide scientists and business leaders with the right data, and to help ask the right questions, at the right time. You will be working alongside lab SME, Data Engineering, and the Emerging Technologies team to help digitize our process development, analytical development, and manufacturing work flows and enable cross-functional access to data.

You will be working with the Cell Therapy Process Development team and will be a qualified DD&T leader to drive CMC digitalization technologies and endpoints across Takeda pipeline and platform activities. You will report to Head, Digital Solutions & Applied Informatics.

How you will contribute:

• Apply advanced techniques to complex data science challenges in R&D and other organizations.

• Work directly with Data Science teams in R&D at Takeda along with other ad-vanced analytics organizations across the company.

• Work directly with lab Scientists to understand and develop solutions for cap-turing, handling, and reporting of experimental data

• Apply advanced techniques in structured, partly structured, and unstructured data across different partner organizations.

• Implement solutions for difficult-to-structure data sets.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of modern data technologies and explore new platforms and beta tooling.

• Independently use your judgment to identify data requirements and iterate and expand the ecosystem design.

• Influence new computer science platforms to design, analyze, and implement complex and new data-driven solutions that impact the company.

• Provide leadership to complex data analysis, use and explore data, languages, tools, and software to best construct data for predictive modeling, test the model, and train data to deploy the modeling within a complex R&D, Medical, Mathematical environment and a large complexity of IT systems and data.

• Interface and manage technical development team to development fit for pur-pose digital solutions.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher in computer science or equivalent.

• 6+ years experience or relevant in lab data collection and analysis

• Up-to-date specialized knowledge of data wrangling, manipulation, and man-agement of technologies.

• Ability to translate and communicate complex data science concepts and chal-lenges to non-technical colleagues.

• Ability to manipulate voluminous data with different degrees of structuring across disparate sources to build and communicate actionable insights for in-ternal or external parties.

• Benefit to have direct experience working in Cell Therapy and/or Mammalian Biology labs

• Benefit to have experience working in Process development and/or Manufac-turing environments.

• Ability to work in an agile environment with high-quality deliverables.

• Expertise with one of the following languages: Python

• Benefit to have experience with Clojure

• Understanding of Web Services as well as JSON formats

• Working knowledge of SQL, Relational Databases, and stru