Clinical Scientific Director

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Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Scientific Director in our NS Therapeutic Area Unit.

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.

• Drives, or contributes to, strategy for clinical studies within the overall global clinical development for assigned Takeda pipeline compound(s) taking into consideration the medical, scientific, regulatory and commercial issues.
• Joins multi-disciplinary, multi-regional, matrix teams as they address, and take decision in, highly complex circumstances.
• Has the responsibility for development decisions assessing and integrating the input from various disciplines to create, maintain, and execute studies within a clinical development plan that will result in the regulatory approval of the compound in multiple regions.
• Apply clinical decision making to clinical development issues.
• Interacts with and influences Neuroscience Therapeutic Area Unit and project or franchise leadership decision-making by contributing to strategic direction.

Success or failure directly translates to the ability of R&D to meet its corporate goals and for Takeda to have future commercial products.

• Represents Clinical Science on Study Execution and Clinical Teams.
• Supports the Clinical Subteam to ensure that the clinical team activities are aligned with the global strategy.
• Contributes to Global Project and Clinical Subteam strategy and deliverables working on the Asset Strategy, Clinical Development Plan, Clinical Protocols and other documents needed for study execution.
• Recommends scope, complexity and size, and influences the budget of aspects of a study or program.
• Responsible for monitoring and interpreting data from ongoing internal and external studies, assessing the medical and scientific implications and making recommendations that impact regional and global development such as “go/no go” decisions or modification of development plans or study designs that may have a significant impact on timelines or product labeling.
• Ensures that at all times the scientific rigor and integrity of clinical trials are maintained, and that the resulting data are of high quality to allow data-driven decision-making. In this role works with, and leads, other functional representatives to ensure optimal data quality.
• Ongoing work output will involve continual critical evaluation of the development strategy to maintain a state-of-the-art development plan that is competitive and consistent with the latest regulatory requirements, proactive identification of challenges, and development of contingency plans to meet them. Recommends high impact global decisions.

• Oversees or contributes to Clinical Science activities relating to the preparation / approval of Synopses, Protocols and the conduct of clinical studies. Serves as an advisor to other clinical science personnel involved in these activities and contributes to the successful design and interpretation of clinical studies.
• Interprets data from an overall scientific standpoint as well as within the context of the clinical significance to individual…