Quality Performance & Value Lead

About the role

As the Quality Performance & Value Lead, you will turn strategy into value by ensuring the Quality organization focuses its resources, capabilities, and improvement efforts on the priorities that deliver the greatest impact for patients, compliance, performance, and business outcomes. Through Strategic Prioritization & Portfolio Management, Performance & Value Creation, and Culture & Strategic Partnerships, the role drives organizational focus, performance, and value realization across the Quality organization.

You will provide Site Quality scope across Quality functions, with strong partnership across Business Excellence, DD&T, Finance, Communications, E&C, HR/Learning, Operations, PDT Quality Operations & Performance, BU/OpU Quality and Global Quality stakeholders. You will contribute to Quality-wide planning (MRP/MYC), prioritization, value tracking and resource focus; formal budget ownership remains with the relevant cost center owners. Leads through influence and matrix leadership across initiative owners, Quality leaders, cross-functional partners and transformation contributors.

How will you contribute

• Translate Quality, site, PDT, and global priorities into a focused and actionable Quality roadmap.
• Lead Quality portfolio management and prioritization within the broader governance framework.
• Align resources, investments, and leadership attention to the highest-value opportunities.
• Provide portfolio transparency, performance insights, and an integrated view of strategic priorities.
• Drive sustainable improvements in Quality performance and organizational effectiveness.
• Strengthen execution discipline, accountability, and performance transparency.
• Lead simplification, performance improvement, and value creation initiatives.
• Translate strategic initiatives into measurable Quality and business outcomes.
• Strengthen organizational capabilities and digital readiness.
• Enable adoption of new ways of working and successful implementation of strategic change.
• Integrate priorities across QA, QC, Quality Systems, Compliance, and partner functions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Quality leadership and key cross-functional stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of ownership, learning and continuous evolution across Quality.
• Act as the integrator across QA, QC, Quality Systems and Compliance, enabling internal partners and global programs to engage effectively with Quality and translate priorities into aligned local execution.
• Serve as a trusted partner to the Site Quality Head, SQLT and key cross-functional stakeholders, enabling alignment, collaboration and effective decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, harmonize, digitize or automate Quality processes where this improves performance, compliance or user experience.
• Partners with DD&T, Business Excellence and Quality teams to embed digital and data-driven ways of working where they create value.
• Promotes learning, practical experimentation and adoption of good practices across Quality.
• Operate across multiple Quality functions, priorities, interfaces and transformation demands.
• Manage ambiguity and competing priorities while maintaining focus on value, compliance and patient impact.

What you bring to Takeda

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, Business, Quality, Operations, or a related field.
• Significant experience in Quality, manufacturing, supply, business excellence, transformation, strategy deployment, or a related area within a regulated industry.
• Broad understanding of Quality functions, including QA, QC, Quality Systems, Compliance, continuous improvement, and site Quality operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives, portfolio management, performance improvement, or value creation.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and deliver results without direct authority.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Experience with digital enablement, data-driven performance management, portfolio management, resource prioritization, or OPEX/CAPEX prioritization.
• Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, project management, change management, or similar certification is preferred.

Additional Information

The role is expected to work in close partnership with the Site Quality Head, Site Quality Leadership Team, other Heads of Quality Performance & Value and Head of PDT Quality Operations & Performance. Occasional domestic or international travel may be required depending on site and network needs.