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Job Description

About the role:

The Head of GSQ Business Development is the senior Enterprise Audit and Risk Management leader responsible for end-to-end GSQ leadership of business development diligence and execution readiness across a portfolio weighted toward in-licensing/M&A internalizations, out-licensing and divestments. This role ensures the “voice of GSQ”—spanning manufacturing, supply chain, CMC, and quality—is consistently incorporated into opportunity assessment, governance decisions, and operationalization planning.

This leader does not serve as the primary deal negotiator. Instead, the Head of Business Development & Licensing works closely to Global Business Development and  provides GSQ deal leadership by mobilizing cross-functional SMEs rapidly, driving rigorous risk identification and mitigation strategies, ensuring completeness/quality of GSQ deliverables, aligning GSQ positions into governance materials, and enabling smooth transition from diligence to execution teams.

Role design is grounded in existing Takeda BD/DD and divestiture operating expectations across GSQ.

Primary Objectives:

• Lead GSQ due diligence and execution readiness for BD opportunities, with emphasis on internalizations (in-licensing / acquisitions) and emphasis on out-licensing and divestments, ensuring patient, compliance, and supply continuity outcomes.

• Ensure GSQ risks, requirements, costs, and mitigations are identified early, quantified where possible, and clearly reflected in governance materials and decisions (e.g., PRC/BSC).

• Own GSQ deal shaping, stage gates, and independent assurance for BD opportunities (internalizations, out-licensing, divestments), ensuring evidence-based risk decisions and audit-ready diligence outputs.

• Own GSQ licensing lifecycle governance for out-licensing/alliance supply obligations, including partner operating models, oversight cadence, and performance management.

• Drive post-sign stabilization and value delivery by governing GSQ execution outcomes against the diligence thesis, including value-capture tracking and enterprise risk monitoring.

• Own and continuously improve GSQ BD operating capabilities, including standardized deliverables, playbooks, training, and performance metrics, across the global GSQ network.

• Serve as the senior integrator across GSQ for BD-related activities, aligning stakeholders across sites/regions/functions to deliver consistent outcomes and decision quality.

• Enable seamless transition to execution by establishing strong handoffs, knowledge transfer, and post-sign governance mechanisms (e.g., TSA governance for divestments).

How you will contribute:

Deliver GSQ diligence and execution readiness leadership — across internalizations, out-licensing, divestments

• Own GSQ diligence execution and deliverables for internalizations (in-licensing/M&A), ensuring CMC, supply, manufacturing readiness, and quality & compliance requirements are assessed rigorously and consistently.

• Own GSQ deal shaping for BD opportunities before diligence launch: define GSQ “what must be true” assumptions (network strategy, CMC manufacturability, quality system posture, supply resilience) to guide BD strategy and prioritization.

• Internalizations (In-licensing/M&A) – GSQ Integration Readiness Lead ensures internal stakeholders are informed/consulted of site/network strategy implications, tech transfer / validation readiness, quality system bridging plan, supply launch readiness, and Day-1/Day-100 readiness artifacts.

• Own the GSQ framework for out-licensing operational obligations: supply commitments, release strategy, change-control interface, complaint handling touchpoints, quality oversight model, audit cadence, and performance monitoring.

• Lead GSQ diligence execution for divestments and out-licensing, including entanglement/separation considerations, supply continuity risks, and quality system impacts; ens