Head of Data Strategy and Innovation (all genders)

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Job Description

Takeda is a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to people worldwide. Our passion and pursuit of potentially life-changing treatments for patients are deeply rooted in over 240 years of heritage.

The Head of Data Strategy and Innovation is a leadership role reporting to the CDO responsible for focusing on and defining the overall data strategy (including advanced analytics and GenAI industrialization), identifying opportunities for leveraging data assets to drive business value and fostering a customer of data driven decision making and innovation. This position requires a combination of strategic vision, technical expertise, and strong leadership in a highly federated environment. 

Elevate the role, services and products of data and advanced analytics by collaborating with key stakeholders to understand their data needs and communicate the value of data driven decision making. This leader will identify emerging trends and technologies in data management and analytics while evaluating their potential impact on the organization.

ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the development and comprehensive data strategies across the EDAS organization (Data Management and Engineering, Governance, Platform and Advanced Analytics) that aligns to business objectives.
• Identify areas of opportunities that can drive leverage data to drive growth, reuse, efficiency, automation, and simplicity.
• Identify new data and analytics services that can unlock the potential of data by ensuring our data is AI ready and we make incremental steps in our data and analytics maturity.
• Drive cross functional collaboration to understand their data needs and develop solutions that address their data challenges.
• Collaborate closely with the Value Creation Office to operational cost savings and value realization with a roadmap of opportunities that can be executed.
• Monitor the performance and effectiveness of data strategies and initiatives, continuously optimize them for maximum impact.
• Coordinate and define an enterprise roadmap for the data and analytics services within EDAS.
• Empower the BU/BF on how to best adopt our services and products to accelerate their GenAI/AI journey to a data driven enterprise.
• Communicate awareness and understanding of data and analytics needs, objectives and direction throughout the organization.
• Key member in driving in Global Data Council and other advisory councils as needed.
• Close collaboration with the CTO on aligning the data and advanced AI strategy to the overall DDT strategy.
• Excellent at translating business requirements into technical execution workstreams.
• Drive measurable business results through the effective use of data, technologies and services that accelerate our business vision. 
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, including business leaders, IT teams and data owners to identify data needs and requirements developing solutions that meet those needs.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners and vendors to support data strategy and governance initiatives, while keeping fluent with the evolving data and analytics landscape.
• Actively engaged with client decision-makers to set the tone & vision for measurement, acting as an evangelist for new solutions developed by our data and analytics CoE/service and product pillars.
• In this critical role, you will be responsible for creating and managing relationships with key data pro