Director, Digital Solutions Delivery

Role Summary

Director, Digital Solutions Delivery. The core purpose of this position is to develop and deploy value-based innovations/solutions aligned with the R&D Quality strategy and roadmap to support business stakeholders to meet their quality compliance responsibilities. Oversee delivery of digital project pipeline and manage the team responsible for execution with integrated stage-gate governance at each project phase. Ensure the team gathers requirements and conducts meaningful analysis to develop end-to-end solutions, leveraging best Takeda DD&T and best industry practices. Stewards the development and implementation of R&D Quality Strategic Digital Roadmap in alignment with stakeholder priorities. Inspire and educate the organization on digital technologies and its applications to mitigate risk and improve decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Identify innovation opportunities in partnership with R&D Quality stakeholders
• Employ a standardized methodology to collect ideas/ challenges where technology could be deployed and implement processes that support the delivery of innovative work across the organization
• Evaluate a solution including developing cost-benefit analysis for the solution, gaining stakeholder approval, and accountability for working with R&D Quality organization
• Ensuring development and timely delivery of the projects including escalating or resolving roadblocks where needed to enable at-pace delivery
• Advise and collaborate with business stakeholders on new digital ideas/requests, ensuring a comprehensive business case, outcomes and requirements for prioritization are brought to the appropriate governance
• Orchestrate delivery of digital projects by coordinating activities across project teams and stakeholders
• Partner closely with DDT functions to evaluate use of fit-for-purpose technology to drive value and improve compliance (including advanced analytics, IoT, AI and ML tools)
• Oversee designing, executing, testing and delivering informative digital solutions by gathering business requirements and user stories
• Oversee digital solution portfolio, acting as delivery lead and ensuring the digital governance framework is followed
• Provide strategic direction and guidance to drive improvements and predictive capabilities for the function
• Ensure complex analysis are performed using modern Data Science techniques to explore feasibility of various business use-cases against data and report results back to generate insights
• Provide leadership and expertise in constructing data and executing analysis for feature detection, retrospective and predictive modelling
• Guide the R&D Quality data strategy by empowering the team to create data products to support business users with real-time decision making
• Ensure strategies are in place for high adoption of the digital solutions with focus on usability, data integrity, user training and go-live support
• Lead and develop standards and best practices for R&D QMS data pipeline
• Coach, mentor, and educate team members and stakeholders on digital solutions
• Understanding of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and other advanced techniques to support the digital roadmap

Qualifications

• Minimum requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other quantitative sciences
• 8+ years of increasing responsibility and experience in the tech/biopharma/biotech industry in IT, business functions or other support areas
• 5+ years of experience in leading digital transformation programs in biopharma/biotech including deploying AI/GenAI technologies or 5+ years of experience with data semantic layer definition, data modelling, data visualization

Education

• Advanced degree in Computer science or other quantitative sciences or Engineering or related field (Preferred)

Skills

• Advanced understanding of data architecture and data management
• Prior people-management experience
• Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies (Jira/Kanban/Scrum)
• Experience in digital transformation, data integration, data modelling, modern database query languages, and AWS cloud technologies
• Experience with BI reports, visualization solutions, and modeling
• Cross-functional collaboration and leadership capabilities

Additional Requirements

• Location: Boston, MA
• Time Type: Full time
• Job Exempt: Yes