Jobs at Takeda

Leads strategy activation and operational excellence for Takeda’s U.S. Oncology business unit. Translates enterprise priorities into operating plans, governance, decision rights, performance measures, and execution roadmaps. Oversees cross-functional portfolios, risks, resources, milestones, dashboards, leadership communications, planning rhythms, and organizational effectiveness initiatives. Facilitates senior leadership alignment, manages competing priorities, supports resource allocation, and drives culture, engagement, onboarding, and continuous improvement across a complex matrix organization.

Develop and execute global procurement category strategies for biologics drug substance and drug product manufacturing. The role uses market intelligence, spend analytics, supplier insights, and commercial expertise to optimize costs, manage risk, drive innovation and sustainability, and deliver enterprise value. Responsibilities include stakeholder partnership, sourcing decisions, supplier governance, contracting, spend management, performance improvement, and cross-functional initiative leadership within a complex global organization.

Leads manufacturing-site strategy deployment, performance management, enterprise risk management, crisis management, and business continuity. Translates enterprise priorities into measurable objectives, initiatives, KPIs, governance routines, and resource plans. Partners with leadership and functional teams to monitor execution, identify risks and performance gaps, facilitate business reviews, and drive continuous improvement. Builds organizational capability in strategy deployment, portfolio management, risk management, and transformation while supporting regulated manufacturing operations.

Develop and own end-to-end supply plans for biologic products across multiple manufacturing sites, markets, and planning horizons. Coordinate capacity, production sequencing, inventory, quality, regulatory, and lifecycle requirements. Identify risks and supply-demand imbalances, create mitigation scenarios, and lead cross-functional supply reviews. Translate lifecycle strategies into executable implementation plans while balancing patient supply, service, inventory, capacity, and financial objectives. Drive stakeholder alignment, supply continuity, planning-process improvements, and network decisions.

Leads Takeda’s global financial communications strategy and serves as communications advisor to the CFO and Finance Leadership Team. Develops financial narratives, earnings and investor communications, shareholder engagement, executive messaging, media relations, and risk-response strategies. Partners with Investor Relations, Finance, Legal, Strategy, and global Communications teams. Oversees financial milestones, disclosures, governance, and global communications capability while leading and developing a distributed communications team.

Leads Takeda’s enterprise transformation and change communications practice, engaging approximately 50,000 employees through compelling narratives, executive communications, town halls, multimedia content, and employee activations. Advises senior leaders, supports the Transformation Office and Global Capability Model, builds scalable communications methodologies, manages stakeholder alignment, and drives measurement and continuous improvement. The role also oversees executive visibility, internal and external communications, agency coordination, and communications across global, diverse employee populations.

Provides high-level administrative and operational support to the Head of Global Biologics and leadership team. Responsibilities include managing complex calendars and travel arrangements, coordinating meetings and events, preparing communications and reports, processing expenses, supporting onboarding and special projects, improving administrative processes, and handling confidential information. The role also serves as a liaison across global teams and mentors administrative colleagues.

Lead Counsel will provide strategic and practical legal guidance to Takeda’s Foundational Therapeutics Business Unit, advising commercial, medical, marketing, sales, R&D, and cross-functional teams on pharmaceutical development and commercialization. Responsibilities include assessing legal and regulatory risks, advising on advertising, promotion, labeling, product approval, healthcare professional interactions, and patient programs, coordinating global legal support, and translating complex requirements into actionable business strategies.

Provides high-level administrative and strategic support to a VP or senior leadership team. Responsibilities include managing complex calendars and travel, preparing communications and presentations, coordinating meetings and events, handling expenses and invoices, supporting talent and onboarding activities, managing stakeholders, optimizing administrative processes, and contributing to research-wide initiatives. Requires discretion, strong organization, business acumen, proactive problem-solving, and the ability to work independently in a matrixed organization.

Provides high-level administrative and operational support to two global R&D and regulatory affairs executives. Responsibilities include complex calendar and meeting management, international travel coordination, leadership-team support, event logistics, expenses, procurement, onboarding, document management, confidential information handling, and process improvement across a global, matrixed organization.

Provides legal counsel for global biopharmaceutical supply, quality, procurement, and strategic transactions. Leads negotiation, drafting, review, and post-signing support for manufacturing, supply, logistics, quality, warehousing, equipment, and services contracts. Develops contracting templates, playbooks, escalation frameworks, and training; advises on regulatory, compliance, trade, sanctions, product liability, and continuity risks. Partners with global stakeholders across jurisdictions and time zones while balancing legal risk, business objectives, and execution speed.

Provides legal advice and leads negotiations for global technology, software, cloud, data, AI, digital health, and other enterprise transactions within Takeda’s biopharmaceutical business. Advises on risk, compliance, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and regulatory issues; supports due diligence, contract interpretation, disputes, amendments, and renewals. Develops contracting templates, playbooks, escalation frameworks, and training while partnering with Procurement, business teams, and global legal stakeholders.

Leads global procurement for Plasma Derived Therapies, overseeing category strategy, sourcing, supplier relationships, contracts, value delivery, risk, ESG, and financial optimization. Partners with business leaders across BioLife, manufacturing, logistics, facilities, and real estate. Builds and develops a high-performing procurement team, drives transformation, strengthens supply continuity and compliance, and delivers savings and working-capital improvements across a complex multinational organization.

Develops and tests robotic, automation, control-system, and software solutions for process development. The role integrates equipment, sensors, and communication protocols; manages robotics projects from planning through implementation; develops prototypes and algorithms; supports automation strategy; collaborates with scientists, engineers, vendors, and external partners; authors regulatory and technical documents; and shares robotics, data science, and visualization best practices. Up to 10% travel is required.

Leads U.S. pharmaceutical logistics compliance, sustainability, and strategic network initiatives. Manages logistics service providers, supplier performance, cold-chain distribution, GMP/GDP compliance, quality investigations, CAPA, audits, regulatory submissions, and operating procedures. Partners across manufacturing, procurement, finance, quality, and supply chain teams to improve service levels, costs, carbon emissions, and shipping efficiency. Mentors squad members and supports product launches and portfolio initiatives.

Owns global Windows endpoint management for approximately 50,000 devices, including Intune and SCCM architecture, provisioning, patching, security hardening, compliance, application packaging, and lifecycle management. Leads cloud modernization, PowerShell automation, CIS and Defender for Endpoint initiatives, reporting, governance, and incident response. Coordinates offshore contractors, establishes operational standards, mentors technical staff, and partners with security and business stakeholders to maintain a resilient, compliant endpoint environment.

Provides executive and administrative support to Takeda’s Global Communications & Governance Leadership Team. Responsibilities include complex calendar and travel coordination, expense reporting, procurement, vendor payments, meetings and events, onboarding, document preparation, office support, and confidential communications. The role also champions AI-enabled productivity by coaching executive assistants, developing best practices and prompt libraries, piloting tools, and promoting responsible adoption of solutions such as Microsoft Copilot.

Leads end-to-end supply planning for designated brands across Takeda’s manufacturing network. Ensures continuity of supply, coordinates with planning partners, manages brand-level KPIs, optimizes financial outcomes, and maintains compliance with global standards, systems, and master-data requirements. The role also drives digital supply-chain strategies, lean process improvements, and exception resolution across multiple stakeholders.

Manage the global Meetings, Conferences, and Events procurement category. Develop category plans, lead complex sourcing and negotiations, manage supplier ecosystems and contracts, mitigate risk, and deliver value across cost, quality, sustainability, compliance, resilience, and stakeholder experience. Partner with global stakeholders and lead cross-functional initiatives in a regulated environment while using analytics, automation, and AI-enabled approaches to improve procurement decisions and execution.

Manages the global consulting procurement category, developing category plans, shaping business requirements, leading strategic sourcing and negotiations, managing supplier performance, and implementing commercial frameworks. Delivers value through cost optimization, risk mitigation, sustainability, compliance, and stakeholder outcomes. Partners globally across functions and regions, analyzes spend and market data, manages contracts and supplier ecosystems, and leads cross-functional initiatives in a regulated environment.