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Job DescriptionAbout the role:
- Own China S&OP performance and coordination across assigned market, providing leadership to S&OP personnel and translating regional direction into coordinated country plans, decisions and disciplined execution follow-through.
- Act as the primary Supply Chain point of contact for the LOC Commercial team, connecting the appropriate Supply Chain functions and leading alignment on business priorities, demand assumptions, supply and inventory risks, trade-offs, decisions and actions. Lead the Supply Chain and S&OP performance dialogue for the LOC, consolidating LOC performance insights, identifying key drivers and gaps, agreeing corrective actions and providing a clear LOC performance narrative to Regional forums.
- Responsible for Local S&OP process and Demand Planning process.
- Develop LOC S&OP team members through the talent review process, strengthening capabilities and preparing successors in line with the future GS&OP function and organizational needs.
LOC S&OP Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment
- Local S&OP cycle: Own and coordinate the Local S&OP process, including cross-functional inputs, decision preparation, actions, ownership, follow-through and escalation into the regional S&OP cycle.
- LOC Commercial interface and stakeholder management: Act as the primary Supply Chain point of contact for the LOC Commercial team, connecting the relevant Supply Chain functions and leading alignment with Commercial and cross-functional stakeholders, including Finance, Quality, Supply Planning and launch teams, on business priorities, demand assumptions, supply and inventory risks, trade-offs, decisions and actions.
- Regional integration: Translate regional priorities into LOC actions and provide timely, decision-ready LOC inputs to the Regional S&OP cycle.
- Local Demand Planning: Own the most probable unconstrained local demand forecast for the designated market, including adjustments, assumptions, risks and opportunities, and translate Commercial inputs and market intelligence into the local demand plan.
Supply Assurance, Inventory and Execution Follow-through
- S&OE coordination: Coordinate LOC-level S&OE execution and visibility, ensuring timely identification and follow-through of product-availability risks.
- Supply and inventory management: Assess inventory positions, projections and coverage against agreed targets and coordinate actions to secure availability, maintain appropriate levels and mitigate shortage, excess and obsolescence risks.
- Supply disruption response: Coordinate LOC impact assessment, mitigation priorities, country actions and escalation for significant or time-critical disruptions.
- Global and regional initiative deployment: Coordinate the deployment of relevant global and regional Supply Chain projects, launches and strategic initiatives across the LOC, ensuring local readiness, stakeholder alignment, clear ownership, milestone tracking, risk escalation and implementation follow-through. Overall project accountability remains with the designated global, regional or functional project owner.
- Escalation: Prepare and elevate unresolved issues beyond LOC authority through the Regional S&OP Lead and Head of Regional S&OP, including impact, scenarios, trade-offs, recommendations and required decision.
- Local planning discipline: Maintain planning data quality, controls, forecast documentation, calendar adherence and adoption of Regional Demand Planning and S&OP standards.
- Independent challenge: Ensure material assumptions, forecast changes, inventory exceptions and cross-country trade-offs affecting the designated market are subject to appropriate challenge by the Regional Demand Planner, Regional S&OP Lead or another designated peer.
- Scope boundary: Own LOC-level inventory planning, visibility, target and coverage assessment, decision coordination and action follow-through. Operational Logistics, Distribution, warehousing, transportation, Customer Service and management of local 3PL/4PL providers remain outside the role.
Leadership, Performance and Capability
- People leadership: Lead, coach and develop assigned resources in line with the confirmed organizational structure.
- LOC performance dialogue: Lead the Supply Chain and S&OP performance dialogue for the LOC, LOC performance insights, identifying key drivers and gaps, facilitating agreement on corrective actions and ensuring clear ownership and follow-through. Provide a clear LOC performance narrative, including material risks, opportunities, actions and support required, to the relevant regional forums.
- Capability: Build Demand Planning and S&OP capability and execution discipline across LOC team members.
- Functional coordination: Operate within the delegated functional coordination model led by the Regional S&OP Lead and the Demand Planning methodology led by the Regional Demand Planner.
- Continuous improvement: Identify recurring performance and process gaps and coordinate LOC-level improvement actions, adoption of standards and sharing of good practices.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering or a related field.
- Relevant Supply Chain or S&OP certification preferred.
- Typically, 7-10 years of relevant Supply Chain planning and operations experience.
- Strong communication skills to manage stakeholders across levels & across countries
- Good leadership, networking and influencing skills
Skills Required
- Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
- Typically 7–10 years of relevant supply chain planning and operations experience
- Strong communication skills to manage stakeholders across levels and countries
- Good leadership, networking, and influencing skills
- Relevant Supply Chain or S&OP certification
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.
Takeda Insights
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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