Digital Innovation Lead

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Job Description

• As a part of Digital Strategic Alliances and Partnerships team in this global role, part of Chief Technology Officer's organization, you help to ensure the excellence of Takeda's digital products and services by leading strategic, enterprise-wide, innovation initiatives, and be accountable for their successful execution and impact on Takeda's patients and business;

• You have ownership of building and sustaining digital and organizational infrastructure enabling Takeda's digital innovation community of practice, responsibility of creating strategy and future vision for its development, as well as accountability for improving Takeda digital innovation culture and performance:

• As owner of Takeda digital innovation business intelligence, you lead digital business development by maintaining industry leading competitive intelligence, decision support and provide support to model commercial feasibility and business case assessment / development;

• As owner of Takeda digital competitive intelligence infrastructure and service offering, you lead, plan, maintain, and benchmark Takeda digital competitive intelligence to ensure it is world-class;

• Primary responsibility in ensuring Takeda leadership has easy access to industry leading digital health strategic intelligence and related decision support;

• Prepare high quality, actionable analysis and insights on targeted topics in written format and provide presentations and briefings to support executive decision making and wider Takeda digital communities.

• Accountability to continuously improve and develop the service offering of competitive intelligence to ensure Takeda wide utilization of digital health competitive intelligence and analytic capabilities, including, but not limited to: Data, Digital & Technology leadership, Business Unit leadership, R&D and Medical Affairs.

• Ensure Takeda maintains updated competitive intelligence tracking key technology, industry and business trends, including targeted and continuously updated analysis of key sectors and companies.

• Responsible to build and strengthen cross-functional relationships with senior leadership across Takeda, and accountability that Digital Strategic Alliances and Partnerships innovation and partnership services and objectives meet the changing innovation needs of business units and functions, and that they are aligned with enterprise-wide innovation objectives;

• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Takeda to understand and prioritize business intelligence and analysis needs, and proactively develop new case studies or improvements to digital business analysis processes and infrastructure.

• Lead planning and executing external engagements with key communities and events with focus on strengthening Takeda strategic intelligence, scouting and partnerships.

• In collaboration with Digital Strategic Partnerships Team, lead the digital partnership deal flow by identifying and assessing new business opportunities and contribute to partner/build/buy decision making.

• Lead the management of strategic partnership deal flow by assessing new partnerships, benchmarking, due diligence, business models, and partnership development;

Requirements:

• BA/BSc in business, science, technology or related field. MA/MSc is preferred:

• 7+-14 years of relevant work experience with progressing responsibility and leadership within health/biopharmaceutical/digital industries:

• Demonstrated experience across biopharmaceutical value chain and functions is desirable, as is experience with digital and digital health in pharmaceutical company context, as well as experience conducting business analysis in digital industries;

• Prior experience from Pharmaceutical Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Promotional Material Review, is an advantage, as well as experience from leading communities-of-practice and creation of Standard Operation Procedures;

• Demonstrated experience of ownership and leadership of large, complex programs or projects is desirable;

• Demonstrated experience in digital health or medical technologies is an advantage, as well as experience from venture capital, private equity, startups, innovation, or strategic partnerships;

• Demonstrated experience from planning and executing competitive landscape analysis that supports business development, as well as from industry leading scouting and business intelligence tools is required;

• Demonstrated experience from developing business plans and in business modelling, achieved e.g. from startup founding or new product development;

• Experience from crowdsourcing and open innovation is a plus;

• Advanced written and oral communication skills, and great people skills.

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For Location:
Cambridge, MA
U.S. Base Salary Range:
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The 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. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
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Locations
Cambridge, MAZurich, Switzerland
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Job Exempt
Yes