Head of Data, Digital

**How you will contribute**:

- Joint accountability for co-creation of the DD&T **value creation strategy for region and realization of business outcomes**across the region in close collaboration with Country GMs and regional Executive team
- Lead and inspire the DD&T transformation in the region and LOCs i.e. **work with General Managers and regional executive teams. Challenge**the status quo where necessary
- ** DD&T delivery and operations leveraging the GPD DD&T CoEs as well as global DD&T/ICC**resources. Ensure that regional/LOC business priorities are fully enabled and prioritize DD&T resources appropriately
- Elevate capabilities and fully embrace Data & Digital into the **ways of working and opportunities to make the business future ready**and financially sustainable
- ** Co-design the GPD DD&T Strategy**and focus areas with the DD&T CoEs, balancing the resourcing with LOC DDT heads while ensuring the critical strategic interface and visibility of focus between the regional executive team (EET, GEM LT) and GPD DD&T
- ** Lead and inspire**the LOC DD&T Heads from a functional perspective and drive a strong DD&T community across the region, ensuring exchange of best practices and elevation of capabilities at scale.
- Drive the DD&T focus in business reviews with the regional team and **drive the strategic focus in the LOC**(e.g. where we intend LOCs to invest vs not)

**Behaviourial Competencies and Skills**:
**Functional**
- Strong understanding of business strategy, disease areas, and elements of commercial, medical, access etc.
- Strong understanding and experience with digital innovation and understanding of the opportunities to create value for the business through DD&T
- Strong communicator and ability to simplify the complex
- Working knowledge of the DD&T eco-system in Takeda surrounding Patients, HCPs, and other stakeholders.
- Lead and drive digital transformation with franchises and business functions across the region and are able to both influence and collaborate across senior stakeholder landscape. Have a track record of implementing and experiencing challenges of the region & / LOC context, and the needs of LOC well. Is able to synthesize opportunities at the LOC level

**Behavioral**
- Stakeholder Management: Ability to manage a complex multi-faceted array of internal and external stakeholders at region, global, and LOC levels through strong executive presence, effective communication skills, influence, and persuasion.
- Business Acumen: Strong business acumen and understanding of customer needs through previous experience leading business unit, LOCs or GTM functions
- Communication: Ability to communicate ideas persuasively and clearly to lead others into action and build collaborative relationships in complex cross-functional and cross-regional settings.
- Empathy and collaboration: Strong ability to connect across the GPD organization through listening, collaborating, and inspiring trust-based partnerships to deliver results aligned as an LT in line with GPD BU / BFs
- Agile and adaptable: Ability to embrace new concepts and adapt to new situations with agility, demonstrating flexibility in a rapidly evolving industry.
- Inspirational Leadership: Ability to inspire and influence without authority, develop talent as the organization evolves, and create a positive team culture through inspirational leadership.
- Strategic leadership: enable co-creation of the strategy for the BU, and partner with Medical, regions, MCE and LOCs to drive performance and execution
- Putting forth (bold) ideas and opinions and be able to influence senior stakeholders, inspire teams without direct authority to deliver and prioritize competing requests while developing a regional community that elevates DDT capabilities in the business. Strong judgement is key to influence business, what is for greater good critical.

**What you bring to Takeda**:
**Education**:

- Master degree or higher in computer science, technology or life sciences
- MBA degree is a plus
- Relevant professional certification in Agile delivery e.g. Scrum

**Experience**:

- Management and leadership experience in a business / technology role in a similar sized organisation or busi-ness unit
- Hands-on experience of agile delivery management with mixed teams of inhouse and external de-velopers
- Experience of successfully building, managing and motivating multidisciplinary inhouse digital and technology teams
- Experience of planning and delivering products and services using agile development techniques to meet customer expectations and deliver cost effective robust solutions and digital products
- Experience of technology operations management and the use of new technologies to improve pa-tient journey, and cost effectiveness and performance
- Experience of managing technology-enabled change projects
- Experience of setting up and managing outsourced contracts for delivery and development of technology solutions and services
- Addition