CDMO-CTO Management Strategy and Operations Director

CDMO-CTO Management Strategy and Operations Director

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The Strategy and Operations Director owns the alignment of the supply base to Pharm Sci’s short and long-term goals. The Director works to maximize our organization’s efficiency and effectiveness by standardizing our processes to manage external partners and the engagement of our internal stakeholders. Works in close coordination and collaboration with CDMO‑CTO Relationship Managers, the functions, and shared services (such as procurement, legal, and finance) to achieve Takeda’s objectives.

• Support alignment of strategic supplier base with our network strategies, Future Fit, Digital Readiness, and Innovation needs working closely with each Pharm Sci R&D function.
• Develop and maintain CDMO‑CTO Management’s Vendor Network Strategy through continuous governance and evaluation of performance, effectiveness and strategic fit of vendors selected.
• Continually optimize and socialize CDMO‑CTO Relationship Management operating model and standardize our supplier‑centric processes to maximize our efficiencies with our engagements with internal stakeholders.
• Create and maintain necessary GXP documentation and trainings on operating model.
• Support the ongoing management and oversight of existing critical vendors including performance management, KPIs, business/financial risk evaluations, and governance.

• Represent CDMO Management on strategic initiatives such as clinical manufacturing site selection and capacity planning. Develop strategies to reduce the external manufacturing footprint by 10% year over year.
• Align the global vendor network strategies across categories, regions and business functions (including but not limited to Global Manufacturing Services, Global Procurement, Global Clinical Supply Chain, Legal).
• Develop a framework to capture network vendor performance through fit‑for‑purpose KPIs, translating to dashboards and operationalize a solution to enable continuous network optimization.
• Build and manage a strategic road map across People, Process and Systems to standardize work and improve efficiency across CDMO‑CTO team and the wider Pharm Sci teams.
• Act as business process standardization and optimization SME: manage vendor governance meeting charters, templates and procedures; create, update and maintain procedures and processes for CDMO‑CTO Relationship Management; update and socialize CDMO‑CTO team operating model; update and optimize Site Selection process, inventory management, etc.
• Help identify, onboard, and then manage the business relationship of our new and existing strategic suppliers in line with functional and network strategies.
• Establish a strategy to import CDMO data into Takeda’s data fabric to enable aspirational digital innovation.
• Build / drive an optimal usage of existing system solutions to allow centralized production visibility across the internal and external vendor base, ensure inventory compliance, enable lot genealogy and provide an interface with finance, global clinical supply chain and technical functions.
• Plan and maintain a rolling annual calendar of vendor governance meetings (Business Review Meetings – BRMS, Joint Steering Committees – JSC, etc) with CDMOs, CTOs and Medical Device suppliers and support internal vendor network governance meetings as well as manage engagement at trade shows like DCAT and CHPI.
• Provide support to Product Operating Model (POM) as required.
• Create and maintain standardized processes for site selection, vendor performance review and governance to be utilized by CDMO Relationship Managers and socialize within Pharm Sci.
• Serve on Pharmaceutical Sciences cross‑functional work streams as CDMO Management SME and represent teams responsibilities and strategies.

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