About the role:
The Quality Strategy & Innovation (QSI) role leads the site Quality transformation agenda and helps ensure alignment across site, regional, and global Quality priorities. As a strategic partner to the Site Quality Head, this role focuses on transformation, capability building, and value creation to strengthen Quality performance, operational efficiency, and compliance.
How you will contribute:
- Translate global and site Quality strategy into clear, actionable plans for the site.
- Lead the Quality transformation roadmap and support prioritization of the improvement portfolio including resource alignment.
- Partner with Business Excellence and cross-functional teams to drive execution and track progress.
- Lead site-wide Quality transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Use data, digital tools, and innovative approaches to improve ways of working and results.
- Identify capability gaps and help define future-ready Quality capabilities.
- Support deployment of the Agile Operating System and digital transformation initiatives.
- Champion a strong Quality culture and a learning mindset across the organization.
- Act as a change agent to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Collaborate with the Site Leadership Team, Quality Leadership Team, Operations, Business Excellence, and DD&T.
- Represent Quality in site transformation, innovation, and strategic initiatives.
- Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to site, regional, and global stakeholders.
- Support quality budget planning, oversight and resource planning to transformation priorities and drive financial discipline.
- Help develop the Quality talent strategy and capability-building agenda.
- Support development of Quality talent strategy and capability-building program.
What you bring to Takeda:
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or biologics manufacturing environments.
- Strong knowledge of cGMP principles and pharmaceutical manufacturing operations.
- Proven experience leading or supporting transformation, strategy deployment, or continuous improvement in Quality, Operations, or Business Excellence.
- Demonstrated experience leading transformation or continuous improvement initiatives, understanding of lean operations
- Experience working with digital, data-driven, or improvement-focused initiatives is an advantage.
Important Considerations:
At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:
- Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
- Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
- Work in a cold, wet environment.
- Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
- Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.
More about us:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
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