Strategy and Performance Lead

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The Strategy & Performance Lead, Associate Director level, is responsible for translating the manufacturing site’s strategic direction into clear priorities, executable plans, and measurable results.

This role partners closely with the Site Leadership Team and functional leaders to connect enterprise and network priorities with site objectives, strategic initiatives, resource requirements, and performance measures.

The Strategy & Performance Lead establishes and maintains the management systems and governance routines that enable leadership to evaluate performance, identify gaps early, make informed trade-off decisions, and focus resources on the highest-value priorities.

The role also leads the site’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process, including crisis management and business continuity, ensuring that material business, operational, compliance, supply, technology, people, and continuity risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, monitored, and appropriately escalated.

Hybrid Work Requirement: This is a hybrid role based at our Massachusetts Bio Operations site in Lexington, MA. Employees in hybrid roles are required to work on-site a minimum of three (3) days per week.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development & Deployment

• Leads the annual and multi-year site strategy deployment process, translating enterprise, network, and site priorities into measurable objectives, initiatives, roadmaps, and performance outcomes.
• Partners with the Site Leadership Team and functional leaders to develop, deploy, and maintain the site Business Master Plan.
• Facilitates strategy deployment and “catchball” discussions across organizational levels to ensure priorities are understood, feasible, appropriately resourced, and translated into functional commitments.
• Ensures strategic priorities have clear ownership, KPIs, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and governance.
• Maintains a clear line of sight from strategy to priorities to initiatives to execution to outcomes.

Strategy Execution & Performance Management

• Owns the site’s integrated strategy and performance-management framework, including KPIs, scorecards, and business-review processes.
• Translates strategic objectives into meaningful targets and leading and lagging performance indicators.
• Integrates operational, strategic, financial, transformation, and risk indicators into a coherent view of site performance.
• Leads the preparation and facilitation of monthly and quarterly business and performance reviews.
• Monitors execution of strategic initiatives and identifies performance gaps, dependencies, and emerging risks.
• Converts data and performance trends into actionable insights and recommendations for site leadership.
• Partners with Finance and functional leaders to connect operational performance, strategic outcomes, and value realization.

Enterprise Risk Management & Business Continuity

• Owns and continuously improves the site’s Enterprise Risk Management framework and lifecycle.
• Ensures risks are systematically identified, assessed, prioritized, assigned, mitigated, monitored, and escalated.
• Maintains the site enterprise risk register and promotes clear accountability for risk ownership and mitigation actions.
• Facilitates cross-functional risk reviews and leadership discussions related to material and emerging risks.
• Leads and continuously improves the site Crisis Management and Business Continuity Program.
• Partners with site leadership to support effective activation of the Crisis Management Team when required.
• Coordinates annual crisis-management drills and training to strengthen organizational readiness.
• Promotes risk awareness and risk-informed decision-making throughout the organization.

Organizational Capability & Continuous Improvement

• Builds organizational capability in strategy deployment, performance management, portfolio management, and enterprise risk management.
• Develops practical tools, standards, routines, and training that enable leaders and initiative owners to manage execution effectively.
• Coaches leaders and teams in objective setting, KPI development, prioritization, problem-solving, risk management, and governance.
• Simplifies management processes and reduces duplicative reporting and governance wherever possible.
• Promotes a performance culture characterized by transparency, accountability, fact-based decision-making, appropriate escalation, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Operations, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Seven or more years of experience in manufacturing, operations, strategy, operational excellence, transformation, program management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience translating business strategy into executable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations and cross-functional dependencies.
• Experience with strategic portfolio, program, or project management.
• Experience establishing or operating performance-management systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional work and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience supporting organizational change and transformation.

Preferred

• MBA, master’s degree, PMP, Lean Six Sigma certification, or comparable advanced qualification.
• Experience in pharmaceutical or other highly regulated manufacturing environments, including familiarity with cGMP, regulatory compliance, and quality systems.
• Experience with Enterprise Risk Management, crisis management, business continuity, or operational risk management.
• Experience with Hoshin Kanri, X-matrix, Lean management systems, operational excellence, or strategy deployment.
• Knowledge of financial planning, capital planning, and value-realization processes.
• Experience with portfolio-management and business-intelligence platforms such as Microsoft Power BI.

Additional Information

• The position is site-based and requires extensive cross-functional collaboration across site, regional, and global teams.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Gowning and entry into controlled manufacturing areas may be required.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

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