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Job Description

About the role:

Join Takeda as a Director, External Data Governance & Execution where you will play a crucial role in driving and navigating transformative initiatives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, adaptability, and growth. You will also play a vital role in this mission by overseeing and managing the performance and delivery of the data vendor community, coordinating on the approach to data ingestion in concert with Data, Digital and technology (DD&T), and managing the book of business and all related documentation. The Director of External Data Governance & Execution comprehensively manages the rules and processes that define the provisioning of externally sourced data both in regards to the responsibilities of the suppliers upstream from Takeda as well as how it is delivered to corporate system. As part of the Commercial Data Management & Strategy (CDMS), you will report to Head of U.S. Commercial Data Management & Strategy and partner with Business Unit (BU), Master Data, Sales Operations, and DD&T colleagues, as well as external partners.

How you will contribute:

• Partner with an extensive network of external data suppliers to oversee and take accountability for the delivery of high quality data to ensure that performance measures up to or exceeds contracted service level agreements.

• Engage with stakeholders to enable business strategies and provide thought leadership on opportunities where external data partners and capabilities play an important role.

• Provide data governance and execution leadership and develop roadmaps and strategic plans to articulate the vision.

• Partner with DD&T in concert with the data acquisition and master data domain leads as the expert and senior conduit to the technical partners within data vendors to initiate new action as well as to remediate and resolve challenges.

• Knowledgeable of USBU procured data and build enterprise data awareness of capabilities and opportunities.

• Partner closely with stakeholders, particularly in sales operations, to align strategies, improve communication channels, and enhance cross-functional cooperation.

• Drive cultural improvements within the team and manage change effectively while cultivating a culture of transparency and continuous improvement

• Champion the enhancement of data literacy among team members, facilitating knowledge-sharing and leveraging data-driven decision-making.

• Actively pursue ways to cultivate a learning culture, encouraging ongoing skill development to propel the team’s growth and success.

• Enable the USBU to acquire and continually improve advanced data capabilities, provide high quality data, deliver operational excellence, and empower greater adoption through education.

• Orchestrate and oversee compliant processes and policies for the intake of externally sourced data.

• Liaise with privacy/ethics/compliance to ensure adherence to Takeda standards and related governance expectations.

• Own and manage the business rules and related governance tasks applied to sourced data by the supplier community.

• Provide comprehensive documentation on all data partners and ensures it remains up to date and accessible.

• Manage the contractual book of business and all aspects of the contract lifecycle in partnership with Finance and Procurement, playing a leadership role in cyclical activities such as MRP and MYC.

• Monitor and control all supplier-based project activities and actively coordinate with BU, DD&T, COBS, and Vend