DD&T Portfolio and Strategy Lead

Job Description

Title:

DD&T Portfolio and Strategy Lead

Location:

Cambridge, MA

About the role:

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 a member of the Strategy and Portfolio team, with 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 - contributing 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 issues facing the pharmaceutical industry, and how technology is/can be applied to streamline key processes.

• Strong communication skills:
  Ability to collaborate, communicate and influence effectively and consistently with stakeholders with various levels of technical backgrounds and leadership levels.

• Team-oriented. Excellent interpersonal skills and adept at verbal, written, and slide-based…