Jobs at Takeda

Promotes Takeda’s Oveporexton product in the Hefei market by visiting and developing customers, maintaining long-term relationships, executing marketing activities, monitoring competition and market trends, completing reports, and sharing accurate product information. The role also reports adverse events, supports regional managers with onboarding and product training, and ensures full compliance with company policies. Candidates need pharmaceutical industry experience, medical or pharmaceutical education, computer skills, English proficiency, communication abilities, and required company and RDPAC certifications.

Leads strategic sourcing and negotiations for clinical trial management categories, including CROs, FSPs, site networks, and delivery partners. Develops sourcing strategies, manages supplier relationships and risks, negotiates clinical pricing and contracts, supports trial budgets, and ensures compliance with GCP, ICH, privacy, and procurement governance. Partners with Clinical Operations, Finance, Quality, Legal, and other stakeholders to deliver savings, innovation, continuity, and process improvements using digital and AI tools.

Manages government accounts, receivables, distributors, tenders, and customer relationships. Supports sales growth, tender submissions, formulary inclusion, account troubleshooting, competitive intelligence, forecasting, and compliant business operations. Coordinates with sales, medical affairs, finance, supply chain, regulatory, quality, and tender teams while engaging government officials, reimbursement authorities, committees, and institutional stakeholders.

Leads strategic sourcing and end-to-end Source-to-Contract activities for Discovery Research and preclinical R&D categories. Develops sourcing strategies, negotiates supplier agreements, manages supplier relationships and risks, and delivers savings and broader value. Partners with Research, Finance, Legal, and other stakeholders on CROs, pharmacology, DMPK, toxicology, chemistry, biologics, and specialized research services. Ensures appropriate IP, compliance, biosafety, animal welfare, and export control provisions while improving procurement processes through standardized workflows, digital tools, and AI.

Leads strategic sourcing and Source-to-Contract activities for clinical trial services, including laboratories, imaging, eClinical technologies, clinical supplies, packaging, and distribution. Develops sourcing strategies, negotiates contracts, manages suppliers and risks, drives savings and value delivery, and partners with Clinical Operations, Finance, Legal, Quality, IT, and Privacy. Ensures compliance, standardized processes, supplier performance, contingency planning, and clinical service pricing governance.

Own Tableau dashboard development and maintenance while independently delivering complex pharmaceutical commercial analytics. Analyze claims, EMR/EHR, lab, sales, specialty pharmacy, and channel data to generate patient, HCP, brand performance, and competitive insights. Develop KPIs, data models, business rules, refresh pipelines, and decision-ready visual stories. Collaborate with global brand teams, support launch readiness, mentor analysts, and contribute to analytical methods and visualization standards.

Leads strategic sourcing and end-to-end Source-to-Contract activities for R&D lab supplies and services, including reagents, chemicals, instruments, consumables, and laboratory support services. Develops sourcing strategies, negotiates contracts, manages suppliers and risks, drives standardization and catalog adoption, and delivers cost, innovation, ESG, and continuity value. Partners with scientific, finance, legal, procurement, and operational stakeholders while improving processes through digital and AI-enabled solutions.

Manages financial planning and analysis, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and executive presentations. Partners with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to provide insights into performance, risks, and opportunities. Leads reporting and planning process improvements, automation, data quality, and financial data maintenance. Oversees complex analyses, manages projects, and coaches junior finance professionals.

Supports controllership across assigned entities by managing financial close activities, reconciliations, balance sheet and P&L analysis, statutory reporting, audits, internal controls, SOX compliance, and complex accounting matters. Acts as a liaison between local markets and Global Finance teams, partners with cross-functional stakeholders, and drives accounting process improvements, automation, and finance transformation initiatives.

Leads all supply chain activities at Takeda’s Van Nuys facility, including plasma sorting, production planning, materials management, warehousing, distribution, inventory, capacity, and material availability. Serves as facility site lead, identifies supply risks and opportunities, supports new product launches and product enhancements, and aligns facility activities with the Plasma Operating Unit and Global Supply Chain.

Coordinates supplier registration, purchasing, purchase orders, invoices, service requests, and supply continuity for operational centers. Tracks orders, deliveries, discrepancies, blocked invoices, renewals, and period-end reconciliation. Supports center openings, handovers, user guidance, process improvements, exception reporting, and audit-ready recordkeeping while collaborating with Procurement, Finance, Facilities, Engineering, EHS, IT, suppliers, and center teams.

Manage end-to-end payroll activities for a regional, multi-entity, or multi-market portfolio. Validate complex payroll transactions, perform reconciliations and controls, resolve operational issues, support year-end activities and system changes, maintain audit-ready documentation, and coordinate with providers and internal stakeholders. The role also provides peer guidance and identifies opportunities to standardize and automate payroll processes.

Leads data execution and operations across assigned pharmaceutical therapeutic areas, ensuring stable delivery, incident resolution, SLA performance, backlog visibility, and continuous improvement. Coordinates teams, vendors, stakeholders, data platforms, and operational readiness for launches and releases. Oversees issue triage, root-cause analysis, dashboards, automation, monitoring, governance, and regulated-data controls while providing leadership with capacity, risk, demand, and delivery insights.

Leads Takeda’s global Procurement Insights & Intelligence function, shaping procurement analytics, market intelligence, data governance, AI-enabled decision support, supplier risk sensing, and forecasting. Partners with Procurement, Finance, DD&T, and business stakeholders to inform sourcing, supplier, investment, and risk decisions. Oversees data providers, analytics adoption, performance measurement, stakeholder communications, and a global team’s development and delivery.

Leads ESG and supplier risk analytics for Global Procurement by building dashboards, reporting solutions, datasets, and intelligence products. Integrates and validates internal and external data, conducts supplier and sustainability analyses, supports predictive analytics and AI initiatives, and communicates actionable insights to leadership. The role also manages reporting governance, data quality, analytics requests, automation, and continuous improvement across procurement stakeholders.

Owns and advances global procurement excellence frameworks, operating models, governance, tools, and best practices across category management, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, segmentation, and supplier programs. Partners with global procurement teams and stakeholders to improve performance, manage risk and sustainability, drive adoption, support transformation, and build organizational capability through coaching and change management.

Leads procurement center of excellence initiatives and cross-functional transformation programs from planning through adoption. Establishes project governance, plans, risk controls, reporting, stakeholder alignment, and benefits tracking. Designs organizational change strategies, including impact assessments, communications, training, engagement, readiness, and sustainment. Measures adoption, user satisfaction, behavior change, and business outcomes while coaching teams and strengthening project and change management capabilities.

Leads digital enablement for Procurement by analyzing processes, identifying automation opportunities, and delivering scalable low-code and AI-enabled solutions. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, governance, data quality, stakeholder management, training, adoption, support, and continuous improvement. Partners with technical, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and business teams to ensure solutions are secure, compliant, user-centered, and aligned with enterprise architecture.

Own and improve global procurement excellence frameworks covering category management, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, segmentation, innovation, risk, and ESG. Partner with global procurement teams to drive governance, process adoption, capability development, change management, performance measurement, and continuous improvement. Coach stakeholders, maintain operating models and tools, support supplier-focused enterprise programs, and strengthen procurement maturity across a complex global organization.

Executes pharmaceutical marketing strategies, visits and develops target healthcare customers, maintains long-term relationships, reports market activity, communicates product information, monitors competitors, collects adverse-event information, supports representative onboarding and product training, and ensures regulatory compliance.