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Job Description

Job Title: Director, Data Management and Governance for RDQ

Location:  Lexington, MA

About the role:

As a Director, Data Management and Governance for RDQ, you will maintain QMS data systems and data quality standards through data maintenance tasks and a high-level data governance strategy to ensure compliance with company and regulatory requirements. You will establish and maintain policies for end-to-end enterprise-wide data governance, ensuring data consistency, integrity, and security along with R&D and Global Quality partners. You will provide Quality expertise to enterprise-wide and R&D large-scale data projects to organize, collect, and standardize data to support business-critical needs. You will be reporting to the Head of Data & Digital R&D Quality.

How you will contribute:

• Be the leader of the RDQ data program that includes integrated data flows with end-to-end data management control mechanisms, internalization of enterprise processes, enablement of automation, near-time data access/streaming data sets, efficient data query review, and flexibly allow inspiring technologies for insight derivation.

• Be the primary Quality contact for R&D data governance council and related operations.

• Lead the implementation and management of a data governance strategy with R&D, Global Quality and Enterprise partners, redefining raw data into applicable insights, helping us make informed decisions, optimize performance and achieve RDQ data strategy.

• Advise, and work on data flow optimization including data capture, integration and use.

• Subject Matter Expert for setting and maintaining GxP standards for future state with Takeda SDLC policies and QMS - including digital products and new technologies.

• Support data principles, policies, and standards.

• Develop data profiling and data quality methodologies and embed them into the processes involved in transforming data across the systems.

• Manage and influence the data pipeline and analysis approaches, including data quality software to interrogate data sets.

• Maintain documentation for business rules for data, and act as an expert on data definitions, data standards, data flows, legacy data structures, for R&D and stakeholders.

• Perform root cause analysis on GxP issues on data anomalies and work with data stewards to resolve issues.

• Define data governance operational processes following policies and standards, promoting roles and responsibilities.

• Monitor compliance to standards and processes.

• Support resolution of R&D governance issues and escalate.

• Create, manage, and facilitate a Data Policy Governance process to identify and understand critical data issues and ensure data policy enforcement and compliance.

• Ensure governance mechanisms are in place to manage access to data.

• Conduct training sessions on the policy, standards, and processes.

• Support leadership with communication of main governance priorities and successes across the enterprise.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree required, Masters or Ph.D. preferred, in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Econometrics or information sciences such as business analytics or informatics.

• 8 to 10+ years of experience, including 3+ years of experience working in data engineering role in an enterprise environment Experience with pharma processes and familiarity with R&D d