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Job DescriptionTitle: Data Excellence Manager
Location: Toronto, Canada
About the role:
As the Data Excellence Manager, you will enable Takeda Canada’s data-driven decisions by ensuring critical local data is trusted, usable, and aligned with enterprise standards. You will strengthen the foundation for analytics, reporting, and data products by improving data quality, stewardship, and interoperability across the LOC. You will be a hands-on leader, the role helps translate data into scalable business value for Canada.
Reporting Manager: Head of DD&T, Canada
How will you contribute:
Serve as strategic business partner for data excellence. Collaborate with cross-functional partners (commercial, medical, access, PSP) and IBU to assess, prioritize, and implement new data use cases that enable value realization. Coordinate with vendors and cross-functional partners to ensure data sourcing meets LOC needs. When assessing new use cases, apply the LOC’s shared requirements-discovery method to confirm the underlying problem (data, process, or technology) before committing to a data solution, partnering with the Data Products Manager and the Tech & AI Partner’s intake (‘front door’).
Own and execute the LOC data roadmap. Continuously assess the state of data and insight needs in Canada, maintain a prioritized backlog of data tasks (integrations, quality fixes, new data sources), execute against it, and provide transparent progress updates to stakeholders. Ensure data standards and integrations support campaign execution, monitoring, and performance measurement aligned with global and IBU frameworks.
Lead data stewardship, governance, and documentation. Perform hands-on stewardship activities: data owner/steward touchpoints, dataset reviews, and issue triage. Lead Master Data Management implementation and validation (e.g., HCP/HCO master data). Apply and maintain global data standards locally — align field names/values to global definitions, maintain mapping tables, and document exceptions. Create and maintain data dictionaries, lineage notes, business rules, and usage guidance so analysts and product teams can confidently consume data.
Drive data quality monitoring and remediation. Operate recurring data quality checks (completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness), identify root causes with source system SMEs, and implement fixes — ensuring critical datasets are reliable and fit for purpose.
Execute data integration, ingestion, and always-on customer data flow into CDP. Perform or directly drive the practical steps to onboard data sources into EDB and enable reliable downstream flow e.g. into CDP: source profiling, extraction requirements, transformation logic, validation rules, deduplication, consent-compliance controls, and publishing steps. Ensure customer data is unified, quality-checked, and continuously flowing to support activation, analytics, and business execution. Partner with the CRM/CXF Manager on TakedaConnect migration into CXF, ensuring continuity of customer journey capabilities. Partner with ICC/GCM delivery teams to ensure scalable, standardized delivery.
Serve as a hands-on data ambassador. Raise data fluency and governance capabilities across the LOC through practical enablement: training sessions, office hours, playbooks, and worked examples that improve how teams request, interpret, and use data — building confidence and consistency.
What you bring to Takeda:
University degree in a relevant field such as data management, information systems, computer science, analytics, business, or a related discipline.
5-7 years of experience in data management, data governance, data integration, or related disciplines.
Demonstrates a growth mindset, with openness to feedback, continuous learning, and adapting quickly in a changing business and technology environment.
Hands-on experience with regulated data domains (e.g., HCP/HCO, PSP, consented customer data, financial data) in a pharmaceutical or regulated industry context.
Working knowledge of SQL, data platforms (e.g., Databricks), BI tools (e.g., Power BI), ETL processes, and data modelling.
Strong understanding of Master Data Management, data quality frameworks, and data governance principles.
Familiarity with pharmaceutical data ecosystems, compliance, privacy, and audit requirements.
Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and backlog management.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical language and drive cross-functional alignment.
Detail-oriented and quality-driven — takes pride in ensuring data is accurate, well-documented, and fit for purpose.
Proactively identifies and resolves data issues before they impact downstream products and decisions.
Bridge technical data work with business context — communicates data governance concepts in language stakeholders understand and value.
Build trust through transparency: keeps stakeholders informed on data status, roadmap progress, and known limitations.
This job posting is for a new role.
Takeda may use additional Talent Acquisition technologies and artificial intelligence to support the recruitment process, including video interviewing. Artificial intelligence will be used to support, but not solely determine, applicability for a specific position.
Takeda Canada encourages applications from all qualified candidates. In accordance with our accommodation policies and applicable provincial accessibility legislation, please advise us if you need accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process. Any information you provide relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
LocationsToronto, CanadaBase Salary Range:
$115,000.00 - $158,400.00The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.
Canada based employees may be eligible for a comprehensive range of benefits and incentives. Benefit eligibility varies by position and can include, amongst others:
short-term and/or long-term incentives
subsidies for fitness and internet
medical, dental, and vision insurance
basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
participation in the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP); company match into a Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan (DPSP) (if eligible)
short-term and long-term disability coverage
annual vacation entitlement; additional paid time off and company holidays
a tuition reimbursement program
a variety of well-being benefits
Les collaborateurs basés au Canada peuvent, selon leurs postes, bénéficier d’un ensemble complet d’avantages sociaux. L’éligibilité à ces avantages varie selon le poste, et peut inclure:
des primes ou dispositifs d’intéressement à court et/ou long terme,
des subventions pour les abonnements sportifs et abonnements internet
une assurance santé incluant la prise en charge des frais médicaux, dentaires et optiques
une assurance vie de base ainsi qu’un assurance en cas de décès ou de mutilation accidentels (AD&D)
une participation au Régime enregistré d’épargne-retraite (REER) ; contribution équivalente de l’entreprise dans un régime de participation différée aux bénéfices (RPDB) (si admissible)
une couverture en cas d’incapacité de travail temporaire ou prolongée
un droit à congés payés annuels, avec jours de vacances, jours de récupération et jours fériés spécifiques à l’entreprise
un programme de remboursement des frais de scolarité
une variété d’avantages liés au bien-être
Skills Required
- University degree in data management, information systems, computer science, analytics, business, or a related discipline
- 5-7 years of experience in data management, data governance, data integration, or related disciplines
- Hands-on experience with regulated data domains in a pharmaceutical or regulated industry context
- Working knowledge of SQL, data platforms such as Databricks, BI tools such as Power BI, ETL processes, and data modeling
- Strong understanding of Master Data Management, data quality frameworks, and data governance principles
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical data ecosystems, compliance, privacy, and audit requirements
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and backlog management
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate between technical and non-technical language
- Growth mindset, openness to feedback, continuous learning, and adaptability
- Detail-oriented and quality-driven approach to data accuracy and documentation
- Ability to proactively identify and resolve data issues
- Ability to connect technical data work with business context and communicate governance concepts effectively
- Ability to build stakeholder trust through transparency about data status, roadmap progress, and limitations
Takeda Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Takeda and has not been reviewed or approved by Takeda.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded retirement is described as notably strong, combining a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match with an additional company contribution that scales with age and service. Access to an employee stock purchase plan further supports long-term wealth building.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid bonding leave for all parents, substantial adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, and robust caregiver resources (backup care and Maven family-forming support) are emphasized as core strengths. These offerings create a comprehensive safety net for a range of family situations.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (nationwide PPO/HSA and regional HMOs), employer HSA funding, and integrated mental-health and well-being programs signal depth in coverage. Preventive care is covered in-network, and plan choices by state expand access.
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What We Do
For over 240 years, Takeda’s propensity to evolve has driven the next generation of innovation, and as a future-focused organization, we’re continuing to drive forward with endurance in our steadfast pursuit to achieve the best outcomes for our patients in a rapidly changing world. We have been preparing for this period of value creation by investing in data, digital and technology, and we’re proud of our employees and their commitment to turning groundbreaking ideas into life-changing impacts. Since our founding in Japan, integrity and putting patients first have been at the heart of our identity, and we will emerge ready for our future as one of the most trusted and science-driven digital biopharmaceutical companies. Join a team where your innovation impacts lives. Together, we’ll realize improved outcomes by improving data quality, enhancing launch execution and improving the patient journey. You’ll play a critical role in accelerating data collection and increasing accuracy across all parts of the business. Patients across the globe will benefit from access to treatments afforded by greater opportunities and efficiency in our research and development.
Why Work With Us
We connect to our history and Japanese heritage through everything we do to bring our purpose, values, vision, and imperatives to life. We are committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients. Being a part of Takeda means having the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than yourself.
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