Senior Analyst, R&D Quality Data Analytics
Takeda
Summary
Drive the execution, implementation, and operationalization of quality data analytics and quality oversight of digital initiatives aligned with R&D Quality organizational KPIs, enabling business stakeholders to carry out quality oversight and compliance responsibilities.
Job description
Objectives
Drive the execution, implementation, and operationalization of quality data analytics and quality oversight of digital initiatives aligned with R&D Quality organizational KPIs, enabling business stakeholders to carry out quality oversight and compliance responsibilities.
Conduct analysis and gather requirements to oversee and build end-to-end analytical solutions, leveraging best practices for UI/UX and data visualization to create relevant, innovative, and impactful dashboards and reports supporting multiple R&D Quality teams, systems, and products.
Lead quality oversight of data-driven solutions to ensure accurate, complete, and fit-for-purpose data and solutions so R&D Quality leadership can rely on them for trending, oversight, and decision-making.
Work creatively and collaboratively with R&D Quality stakeholders, IT, and the wider business by supporting design-thinking workshops, following Agile ways of working, and mentoring stakeholders to evangelize effective data visualization and data literacy practices.
Accountabilities
- Lead quality oversight of solution design, execution, and delivery of dashboards, reports, and digital solutions that enable data-driven, actionable insights in partnership with R&D Quality stakeholders.
- Independently perform complex analysis using industry-standard data and data-science techniques to build and maintain flexible, QMS-focused data foundation structures.
- Define, implement, and monitor data-quality rules and checks for critical quality data elements; investigate and resolve data issues with data owners and system teams.
- Facilitate the day-to-day maintenance and quality oversight of digital tools and solutions, supporting user access management, issue reporting/resolution, and ad-hoc data requests that support R&D Quality business.
- Ensure high adoption of digital tools through user-focused solutions, user training, documentation, and go-live support.
- Support the transition and modernization of quality reporting, ensuring KPI parity and no disruption to compliance reporting.
- Test, validate, and maintain interactive visualizations and reports in line with Takeda SDLC and applicable GxP and data-integrity (ALCOA+) expectations.
- Manage and communicate ongoing status, risks, and issues to provide visibility to leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another quantitative discipline (e.g., Information/Data Science, Engineering, Statistics) is required
- 3 or more years’ related work experience in quality systems and with data visualization capabilities is required
- At least 2 years building Business Intelligence reports and visualization solutions and designing and analyzing business and technical models is required
- Proficiency in BI / data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Qlik) is required
- Experience with SQL, Python, and a modern data platform (e.g., Databricks) is required
- Experience designing and deploying low-code applications, automated workflows and AI-agents using Microsoft Power Platform technologies (e.g., Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, etc.) or equivalent and integrating solutions with enterprise data sources and business processes is preferred
- Experience with quality management system processes (e.g., deviations, CAPAs, audits) and systems such as TrackWise or Veeva eQMS is preferred
- Experience in the global pharmaceutical or healthcare industry, ideally in a Quality or Compliance function is preferred
Benefits
- 401(k) Matching
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Paid Time Off
Company overview
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company founded in 1781 and incorporated in 1925. As one of the world's top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies by revenue and the third largest in Asia, Takeda specializes in developing and commercializing innovative medicines across several therapeutic areas including oncology, rare diseases, neuroscience, gastroenterology, plasma-derived therapies, and vaccines. With approximately 49,095 employees globally, the company operates research and development centers, manufacturing facilities, and commercial operations across 39 U.S. states and numerous countries worldwide. Takeda maintains dual headquarters in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, with significant operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it serves as the largest life sciences employer in the state. The company's patient-focused approach is guided by its Takeda-ism values of Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance, emphasizing a commitment to delivering life-transforming treatments while advancing sustainable healthcare solutions. Takeda's extensive portfolio includes both innovative biologics and small molecule drugs, supported by strategic acquisitions and partnerships that have expanded its capabilities in areas such as immuno-oncology and rare disease treatments.