Director, Supplier Decarbonization Lead

About this Role

The Supplier Decarbonization Lead owns the global supplier decarbonization strategy and climate service line for Procurement. The role translates Takeda's value-chain climate ambitions into a prioritized supplier program and governs delivery across climate target setting, emissions transparency, renewable energy, product carbon footprint data, supplier climate transition roadmaps, and verified Scope 3 reduction. The role leads two Supplier Decarbonization & Sustainable Sourcing Managers and serves as Procurement's principal interface for supplier climate action.

How you will contribute

• Own the global supplier decarbonization strategy, operating model, service catalogue, governance, priorities, and multi-year roadmap.
• Translate enterprise climate objectives into supplier segments, category pathways, annual delivery plans, and measurable reduction levers.
• Lead strategic engagement with priority suppliers on climate targets, emissions transparency, renewable energy, operational carbon reduction, PCF data, and transition roadmaps.
• Govern supplier climate programs including SBTi engagement, CDP Supply Chain, Energize, product carbon footprint data, and sector-specific climate initiatives.
• Ensure credible Scope 3 supplier data, methodologies, claims, controls, and reporting in partnership with Group Sustainability and analytics teams.
• Retain solid-line accountability for objective setting, performance management, development, coaching, and workload allocation of the two Managers.
• Embed climate-related requirements into category strategies, sourcing, contracts, and SRM, aligned with sustainable sourcing standards owned by the Circularity & Sustainable Sourcing Lead.
• Represent Takeda in relevant climate collaborations and communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions to senior leadership.

Accountabilities

Strategy, Framework & Governance

• Set the supplier decarbonization ambition, roadmap, supplier segmentation, intervention model, and annual priorities in close collaboration with EHSS.
• Define decision rights, performance governance, escalation routes, and hand-offs with EHSS, Category Management and Procurement CoE teams.
• Prioritize effort using emissions materiality, supplier influence, feasibility, cost, business criticality, and wider sustainability value.

Supplier Climate Transition & Engagement

• Sponsor differentiated engagement for priority suppliers and executive dialogue with strategic emitters.
• Approve climate transition roadmaps covering energy, process emissions, low-carbon logistics, carbon-related material choices, and emissions data quality.
• For packaging, own packaging-related Scope 3 measurement and reduction outcomes; align with the Circularity Lead, who owns material selection, recycled content, circular design, and sustainable packaging innovation.

Climate Programs & Partnerships

• Provide strategic oversight for SBTi, CDP Supply Chain, Energize, PCF, and sector initiatives.
• Represent Takeda in PSCI, Energize, and other approved collaborations.
• Assess partnership against climate priorities, evidence quality, scalability, and measurable outcomes.

Data, Reporting & Integrity

• Support business requirements for supplier emissions data and performance dashboards.
• Ensure alignment of baselines, methodologies, primary data, PCF approaches, allocation rules, and evidence with relevant internal standards.
• Provide concise executive reporting on trajectory, impact, risks, dependencies, supplier performance, and corrective action.

Interface with Sustainable Sourcing

Align and coordinate climate requirements with the sustainable sourcing strategy and standards owned by the Circularity & Sustainable Sourcing Lead. Agree sustainable sourcing capacity and sequencing jointly, while retaining final solid-line accountability for workload allocation.

People & Service Leadership

• Set objectives, manage performance, allocate work, coach and develop the Managers, and assure quality and consistency.
• Create a service culture focused on supplier action, verified climate outcomes, practical category support, and continuous improvement.
• Manage demand and capacity across climate priorities and agreed matrix commitments.

Education, Behavior, Competencies, Skills

Required

• 12+ years of experience in sustainability, procurement, supply chain, climate programs, or related work.
• Bachelor's degree in Sustainability, Environmental Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
• Deep knowledge of Scope 3 accounting, supplier engagement, climate target frameworks, emissions data, and decarbonization levers.
• Demonstrated leadership of global supplier or cross-functional transformation programs.
• Experience leading people, projects, or significant global workstreams and influencing senior stakeholders in a matrix environment.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Preferred

• Master's degree in Sustainability, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• Pharmaceutical, life sciences, chemicals, or another complex regulated-industry background.
• Experience with CDP, SBTi, GHG Protocol, PCF approaches, renewable-energy programs, and industry consortia.
• Additional language relevant to the global supplier base.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic enterprise thinking and portfolio prioritization.
• People leadership, coaching, and capability building.
• Executive presence and persuasive climate storytelling.
• Analytical rigor and judgement on data quality and claims.
• Commercial understanding and ability to connect carbon with supplier value.
• Collaborative leadership across technical and business functions.
• Clear decision-making in a shared-resource matrix.
• Persistence and adaptability in long-cycle transformation.