Jobs at Otsuka America Pharmaceutical

Leads Global Quality’s strategic portfolio and program management, resource planning, governance, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement. Maintains integrated views of initiatives, priorities, dependencies, risks, capacity, and deliverables. Develops dashboards, metrics, process documentation, governance frameworks, and reporting mechanisms to support leadership decisions and accountability. Partners with global stakeholders and business functions to improve operational effectiveness, strengthen collaboration, preserve organizational knowledge, and scale program management capabilities within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.

Leads supplier relationship management for commercial sourcing, including governance meetings, contractual and policy compliance, performance targets, escalations, process improvements, budget oversight, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and risk mitigation. Supports suppliers across Sales, Marketing, Commercial Operations, and Global functions while driving efficiency across onshore and offshore processes.

The Director, People Services leads HR service delivery strategy, governance, workforce administration, vendor management, analytics, knowledge management, and employee experience. The role drives operational excellence, automation, AI enablement, HR technology transformation, process improvement, and hybrid service delivery models. Responsibilities include overseeing People Services teams, managing outsourced providers, partnering with HRIS and IT, improving employee self-service, and developing organizational capabilities. The position requires 10+ years of progressive HR operations leadership and 5+ years of people management experience.

Supports FP&A leadership and executives through budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, variance analysis, financial modeling, and executive presentations. Partners with functional leaders on budgets, performance drivers, cost optimization, and strategic decisions. Coordinates financial planning calendars and Japan leadership deliverables while improving reporting processes, systems, visualizations, and predictive analytics. The role requires strong financial communication, project management, and expertise with planning, ERP, reporting, and visualization tools.

Leads the architecture, research, development, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise AI and machine learning solutions, including generative AI, LLMs, and agentic systems. Partners with data scientists, engineers, IT, business stakeholders, and life sciences experts to deliver reusable, compliant, production-grade solutions across pharmaceutical R&D and corporate functions. Guides AI product strategy, responsible AI, data governance, MLOps, stakeholder adoption, and technical enablement.

Owns the end-to-end design, configuration, integration, optimization, governance, and support of Monday.com across the organization. Builds workflows, dashboards, automations, reports, and integrations; ensures data integrity, security, and compliance; translates business needs into scalable solutions; and partners with leaders and IT teams. Provides training and documentation, drives platform adoption, monitors usage and KPIs, and identifies process-improvement opportunities.

Leads strategic sourcing for commercial technology, consulting, data, analytics, training, fleet operations, marketing operations, and creative services. Develops sourcing strategies, manages supplier relationships, conducts RFx processes, negotiates contracts and rate cards, tracks savings and KPIs, ensures policy and regulatory compliance, mitigates supplier risk, and drives process improvements. Partners with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver commercial value and supplier performance improvements.

Leads enterprise data quality and metadata governance by defining frameworks, standards, playbooks, lineage practices, KPIs, and remediation processes. Provides hands-on coaching to data domain teams and operationalizes Atlan and Ataccama platforms. Partners with stewards, owners, architects, security, legal, and compliance teams to improve data discovery, traceability, regulatory readiness, and AI data grounding across structured and unstructured data.

Leads U.S. gross-to-net forecasting, pricing strategy, policy impact analytics, and financial accrual support across a pharmaceutical portfolio. Owns channel- and product-level modeling, scenario analysis, payer and rebate assumptions, KPI monitoring, and Anaplan platform enhancements. Partners with Finance, Market Access, Policy, Brand, Global teams, and auditors to support reporting, governance, pricing decisions, and executive recommendations. Oversees consultants and communicates financial risks, opportunities, and forecast uncertainty to senior leadership.

Lead development, maintenance, and improvement of procurement policies, S2P processes, and technology for North America. Partner with Sourcing, Legal, Finance, IT and stakeholders to drive compliance, risk controls, automation, analytics, supplier management, and change management. Build KPIs, dashboards, templates, and training while supporting audits, integrations, and continuous improvement.

The Associate Director leads AI and data science projects in Pharma R&D, developing AI solutions, guiding cross-functional teams, and ensuring effective AI product strategies. Responsibilities include implementing AI models, managing data-driven decision making, and overseeing AI ecosystem capabilities, while maintaining a focus on regulatory compliance and user-centric design.

The Senior Manager AI and Data Scientist will architect, develop, and maintain scalable AI solutions, drive product development, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead cross-functional teams to implement AI-driven insights in pharmaceutical R&D.

The Neuroscience Specialist engages healthcare providers via various tools, providing product expertise and facilitating communication with local medical professionals. They are accountable for outreach, discussions, feedback collection, and collaboration to enhance patient care and inform strategic decisions.

The Director of Data Enablement and Reporting will lead data governance and analytics efforts for the R&D organization, ensuring AI readiness and compliance while collaborating with stakeholders and driving a data-centric culture.

This role leads data and AI engineering strategies for R&D, oversees a team of engineers, and ensures compliance with regulatory standards while fostering innovation and collaboration across functions.

The Associate Director, Biostatistics will provide statistical expertise in drug development, oversee statistical tasks, and collaborate with various teams to support clinical trials.

The Associate Director leads Real-World Data Science efforts, focusing on health economics research and data analysis using traditional and AI/ML methodologies. Responsibilities include collaboration, project management, and ensuring compliance with best practices.

Lead AI platform engineering for enterprise agentic and LLM systems in a regulated pharmaceutical environment. Design reusable multi-agent components, CI/CD and IaC blueprints, observability, and governance-by-design. Guide delivery teams, align deployments on approved platforms (Dataiku, Azure, AWS, Snowflake), implement evaluation frameworks and Responsible AI practices, and collaborate with Data Science, Cloud, SRE, and SecOps to ensure secure, compliant, and scalable production AI solutions.