Specialist, Business Operations - Clinical Oncology

Specialist, Business Operations

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Specialist, Business Operations in our Cambridge office.

At 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 realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

OBJECTIVES

The Specialist, Business Operations, will:

• Own and evolve key OTAU business operations workflows and alliance governance infrastructure, applying independent judgment to identify operational risks, design scalable solutions, and drive work that supports unit priorities.
• Use digital tools, AI, automation, and continuous-improvement practices to simplify processes, strengthen transparency, and improve stakeholder experience across a geographically distributed organization.

Partner with Alliance Management, Business Operations leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business priorities into structured operating models, decision-ready materials, and sustainable ways of working.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Alliance Governance & Sub-Team Operations

• Own the operating model for hybrid and in-person governance meetings, accounting for meeting objectives, stakeholder needs, confidentiality considerations, venue options, technical requirements, and risk points to design an effective meeting experience and resolve execution issues in real time.
• Partner with Alliance Managers to shape governance meeting readiness, identifying gaps in materials, decision inputs, and follow-up requirements.
• Manage the master governance calendar as a strategic planning tool across active alliances, proactively evaluating cadence needs, stakeholder availability, decision timelines, and operational conflicts to recommend adjustments and prevent governance gaps.
• Create and govern a searchable decision and action-management framework for defined alliances, ensuring decision rationale, ownership, risks, and outcomes are captured in a way that enables leadership visibility, accountability, and informed follow-through.
• Coordinate end-to-end alliance governance and sub-team meetings across global time zones, using judgment to anticipate governance risks, resolve scheduling and readiness barriers, and ensure forums are structured to support timely decision-making.

Governance Infrastructure & Digital Tools

• Lead the strategy, optimization, and deployment of alliance digital infrastructure, making recommendations on Teams, SharePoint, repository design, permissions, access governance, version control, and archival practices based on alliance needs, confidentiality requirements, and stakeholder workflows.
• Design and manage the alliance digital onboarding approach for Takeda and partner committee members, determining appropriate access, tool orientation, repository structure, and ways-of-working guidance based on each alliance's governance model, confidentiality requirements, and collaboration needs.

Alliance Health & Reporting

• Partner with Alliance Management to define, interpret, and improve recurring governance health metrics across oncology alliances, translating operational signals into actionable insights that help Alliance Managers identify friction, prioritize interventions, and strengthen alliance effectiveness.
• Manage the operational design and execution of periodic alliance health surveys, including recommending survey approach, identifying response risks, synthesizing themes, and preparing insight summaries that inform Alliance Manager review and follow-up planning.

Business Operations

New Joiner/Leaver Employee Experience Management

• Own and continuously evolve OTAU's new-joiner, offboarding, and…