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I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge.\nJob Description\nAre you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company to inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Director, GDO Trial Performance Intelligence & Strategy based in Cambridge, MA reporting to the Executive Director, GDO Business Operations.\nAt Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to work towards their potential through life-changing work. We offer stimulating careers, and work toward excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to provide Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.\nHere, you will be a necessary contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.\nGOALS:\nThe Director, Trial Performance & Intelligence Strategy is responsible for leading efforts to operationalize insights that improve business decision-making, with the goal of accelerating trial delivery, reducing costs, and enhancing the quality of trial execution. This person will:\nSet the enterprise vision and strategy for trial performance intelligence across GDO, aligning internal priorities with external benchmarks to improve portfolio outcomes and accelerate trial delivery.\nLead the development of scalable business intelligence capabilities, operating models, and data governance to ensure trusted, reliable, and actionable insights.\nTranslate complex data into executive-level insights that inform decision-making across R&D leadership and study teams.\nEmbed insights into portfolio planning and study execution to drive measurable improvements in cost, quality, and speed.\nBuild strong partnerships across internal and external stakeholders to drive adoption, focus on highest-value opportunities, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.\nACCOUNTABILITIES:\nDefine and own the enterprise vision and execution for trial performance intelligence, establish standardized KPIs, benchmarks, and success measures aligned to GDO, R&D, and external expectations.\nLead portfolio-level evaluation of trial performance, identifying systemic risks, opportunities, and key drivers of outcomes, and ensuring prioritization of high-impact actions.Proactively identify strategic and tactical trial performance needs, assessing both long-term and short-term business impact.\n\nDrive the generation and application of clear, actionable insights from diverse data sources to inform study planning, execution, reporting, and operational decision-making across GDO & R&D.\nTranslate complex business and scientific questions into insight-driven approaches, ensuring alignment between stakeholder needs and delivered outputs.\nPartner with global stakeholders and functional leaders, including GDO, DQS, TAUs, CROs, and other R&D functions, to ensure alignment, accountability, adoption, and sustained use of performance insights.\nOversee delivery and scaling of high-impact insight initiatives, ensuring effective execution, integration of cross-functional expertise, and measurable business outcomes.Lead prioritization and investment decisions across trial performance and intelligence initiatives, ensuring focus on the highest-value opportunities aligned to GDO and R&D strategy.\nEmbed trial performance insights into study planning, execution, and reporting to improve cost, quality and speed outcomes.\n\nPartner with data governance teams to enforce enterprise data governance and stewardship practices, ensuring consistent, reliable, and trusted data to support decision-making across GDO.\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:\nAdvanced degree in a lifescience and/or healthcare -related field.\n10 or more years’ experience working in pharmaceutical / biotechnology / healthcare / industry.\nStrong Operational experience in pharmaceutical drug development with significant direct exposure to clinical development.\nStrong communication, management, and organizational skills.\nAbility to effectively interact with and influence all levels of management.\nExperience working with IT partners and vendors for business solutions desired.\nStrong strategic thinking, planning, execution, and communication skills, ability to act at operational and strategic levels.\nAdvanced knowledge of a subset of analytical approaches.\nEntrepreneurial and innovative; takes measured risks; thinks outside the box; challenges the status quo.\nPragmatic and willing to drive and support change.\nIs comfortable with ambiguity.\nSupport a culture of continual improvement and innovation; promote knowledge sharing.\nTRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:\nWillingness to travel to various meetings, corporate partners, additional Takeda sites.\nRequires approximately 10% travel. \nTakeda Compensation and Benefits Summary\nWe understand compensation is an important factoras you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitablepay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.\nFor Location:\nUSA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500U.S. Base Salary Range:\n$177,000.00 - $278,080.00The 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. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.\nFor information about our benefits, please click here.\nEEO Statement\nTakeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.\nLocations\nUSA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500Worker Type\nEmployeeWorker Sub-Type\nRegularTime Type\nFull timeJob Exempt\nYesIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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