Associate Director, Inflammatory Disease Research

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Job Description

OBJECTIVES: 

The Team Lead, Inflammatory Disease Research, Drug Discovery working in the Gastroenterology Drug Discovery Unit will within a highly-functional team focused on the discovery and development of novel drug candidates for the treatment of chronic fibroinflammatory diseases.

She/he will be a scientific leader with deep subject-matter expertise and will apply this expertise to lead and/or support the execution of in vivo and in vitro studies to generate key data for evaluating mechanism of action and/or drug candidate efficacy and pharmacodynamics. He/she will be responsible for managing a team of research scientists bringing novel drug candidates with high potential for anti-inflammatory and/or anti-fibrotic efficacy in humans into the early stage pipeline. She/he will need to be a highly collaborative and energetic scientist with superior communication skills, who can lead a lab-based team running multiple projects, act as senior scientific leader and/or lead early-stage matrix project teams.

ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

• Lead cross-functional project teams and provide technical leadership in area of expertise
• Develops and oversees novel scientific projects in a matrixed structure
• Oversees the design and execution of relevant target and drug candidate mechanism of action studies using contemporary methods and tools.
• Prepare technical reports, summaries and quantitative analyses in written and/or oral form
• Proactively identify complex obstacles to progress in specific areas; recommend and implement solutions using a diverse set of resources; regularly add value to research projects through creative ideas
• Manage a wide variety of tasks, techniques, and projects; integrate these responsibilities to produce quality result with a high level of efficiency
• Supports or identifies BD opportunities to enhance project progression, or functional capability expansion, with clear and specific application to needs of the liver portfolio
• Act as a scientific mentor
• Communicate with colleagues effectively
• Present data to other scientific staff or cross-functional project team; may present data/posters to external research or scientific community
• Performs as a role model supporting Takeda culture and follow policies

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: 

• Minimum PhD degree in a scientific discipline with 7+ years experience (10 years’ preferred) , or
• MS with 13+ years experience, or
• 5 years of Industry experience required
• 5 years of managerial experience required
• Expertise in the design and execution of in vivo and in vitro studies for the evaluation of disease-related biology and fibroinflammatory pathology
• Deep knowledge of animal models of liver or other fibrotic diseases, and cell systems for evaluating interactions between immune cells and fibroblasts in the fibrotic niche