DD&T Portfolio and Strategy Lead

Job Description

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Title: DD&T Portfolio and Strategy Lead

Location: Cambridge, MA

As a DD&T Portfolio and Strategy Lead, you will ensure that Takeda’s DD&T investments are aligned to corporate, business unit, and DD&T strategies, and are efficiently utilizing Takeda’s platform ecosystem. You will be the member of the Strategy and Portfolio team, the DD&T Portfolio and Strategy lead has two major areas of responsibility:
First
- Working with the Portfolio Team to manage the Data, Digital, and Technology (DD&T) portfolio of investments, and the process that governs and steers the enterprise-wide DD&T portfolio. You will enhance the DD&T value proposition by taking a portfolio view toward aligning our set of investment initiatives with key business objectives, optimizing and driving cross-enterprise collaboration. Second
- You will contribute to broader DD&T strategic questions, with a focus on alignment of DD&T strategic priorities with the industry and vendor ecosystem. You will frequently coordinate with platform owners and others across DD&T, as well as current strategic partners, to drive high-value relationships.

• Partner with portfolio managers, finance business partners, platform team members, and stakeholders across BU/BF DD&Ts to optimize the portfolio process through utilization of ATP and related tooling.
• Work with the Portfolio Team to ensure smooth data collection and transfer of initiative information into project management systems.
• Drive analysis of the DD&T investment portfolio, deriving key insights to drive leadership discussion and decision making, enabling investment decisions based on the success of minimum viable products (MVPs), roadmaps, and objectives & key results.
• Escalate strategic and transformational projects for discussion at DD&T and Takeda strategic forums, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Facilitate leadership discussions around emerging strategic DD&T topics for awareness or support, including working across DD&T to integrate these into ongoing digital strategy development.
• Work with current vendors and SIs to maximize value delivery to Takeda, and identify new strategic vendors who can bring high value to Takeda and DD&T.
• Work across the Portfolio Team, DD&T strategy and operations leads, finance business partners, and others to ensure consistency and clarity of initiative data.
• Work closely with platform owners and enterprise architects to understand Takeda’s DD&T tech stack, for identification of portfolio consolidation opportunities as well as developing perspectives on current and potential vendor relationships.
• Drive periodic (e.g., quarterly) and ad hoc analyses of the DD&T investment portfolio to understand and improve strategic alignment and delivery efficiency, with focus on leadership reporting and consolidation.
• Ensure a coordinated view of the DD&T investment portfolio across various forums, including portfolio reviews, DD&T leadership team meetings, and discussions outside DD&T.
• Stay current on emerging DD&T trends, platform and service features, and business model developments to ensure Takeda is partnering for high value delivery.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Business, or related subject.
• Minimum 8+ years of information management and/or related work experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry, IT/management consulting, or related field.
• Experience with IT projects:
  Experience with IT projects from start to end. Strong knowledge of information management, data quality, data constraints and Governance Frameworks.
• Understanding of strategic issues facing the technology industry, from a technical, financial, and regulated industry perspective.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical value chain, product life cycle, and strategic…