Director, GDO Trial Performance Intelligence & Strategy

Goals

The Director, Trial Performance & Intelligence Strategy is responsible for leading efforts to operationalize insights that improve business decision-making, with the goal of accelerating trial delivery, reducing costs, and enhancing the quality of trial execution.

• Set the enterprise vision and strategy for trial performance intelligence across GDO, aligning internal priorities with external benchmarks to improve portfolio outcomes and accelerate trial delivery.
• Lead the development of scalable business intelligence capabilities, operating models, and data governance to ensure trusted, reliable, and actionable insights.
• Translate complex data into executive-level insights that inform decision-making across R&D leadership and study teams.
• Embed insights into portfolio planning and study execution to drive measurable improvements in cost, quality, and speed.
• Build strong partnerships across internal and external stakeholders to drive adoption, focus on highest-value opportunities, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Accountabilities

• Define and own the enterprise vision and execution for trial performance intelligence, establish standardized KPIs, benchmarks, and success measures aligned to GDO, R&D, and external expectations.
• Lead portfolio-level evaluation of trial performance, identifying systemic risks, opportunities, and key drivers of outcomes, and ensuring prioritization of high-impact actions.
• Proactively identify strategic and tactical trial performance needs, assessing both long-term and short-term business impact.
• Drive the generation and application of clear, actionable insights from diverse data sources to inform study planning, execution, reporting, and operational decision-making across GDO & R&D.
• Translate complex business and scientific questions into insight-driven approaches, ensuring alignment between stakeholder needs and delivered outputs.
• Partner with global stakeholders and functional leaders, including GDO, DQS, TAUs, CROs, and other R&D functions, to ensure alignment, accountability, adoption, and sustained use of performance insights.
• Oversee delivery and scaling of high-impact insight initiatives, ensuring effective execution, integration of cross-functional expertise, and measurable business outcomes.
• Lead prioritization and investment decisions across trial performance and intelligence initiatives, ensuring focus on the highest-value opportunities aligned to GDO and R&D strategy.
• Embed trial performance insights into study planning, execution, and reporting to improve cost, quality and speed outcomes.
• Partner with data governance teams to enforce enterprise data governance and stewardship practices, ensuring consistent, reliable, and trusted data to support decision-making across GDO.

Education and Experience

• Advanced degree in a life science and/or healthcare-related field.
• 10 or more years' experience working in pharmaceutical / biotechnology / healthcare / industry.
• Strong operational experience in pharmaceutical drug development with significant direct exposure to clinical development.
• Strong communication, management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively interact with and influence all levels of management.
• Experience working with IT partners and vendors for business solutions desired.
• Strong strategic thinking, planning, execution, and communication skills, ability to act at operational and strategic levels.
• Advanced knowledge of a subset of analytical approaches.
• Entrepreneurial and innovative; takes measured risks; thinks outside the box; challenges the status quo.
• Pragmatic and willing to drive and support change. Is comfortable with ambiguity.
• Support a culture of continual improvement and innovation; promote knowledge sharing.

Travel Requirements

Willingness to travel to various meetings, corporate partners, additional Takeda sites. Requires approximately 10% travel.