Senior Manager, Business Capability Analyst
Takeda
Summary
The Senior Manager, Business Capability Analyst serves as a strategic liaison between regulatory business stakeholders and Digital & Technology teams, enabling the successful delivery of regulatory data and system capabilities across the GRIDS portfolio. This role is responsible for eliciting, shaping, and translating business needs into actionable requirements, while assessing end-to-end process and data impacts. The role ensures that solutions are aligned to regulatory objectives and delivered in a scalable, compliant, and value-driven manner.
Job description
Objective / Purpose
The Senior Manager, Business Capability Analyst serves as a strategic liaison between regulatory business stakeholders and Digital & Technology teams, enabling the successful delivery of regulatory data and system capabilities across the GRIDS portfolio. This role is responsible for eliciting, shaping, and translating business needs into actionable requirements, while assessing end-to-end process and data impacts. The role ensures that solutions are aligned to regulatory objectives and delivered in a scalable, compliant, and value-driven manner.
Accountabilities
- Partner with Business System Owners and stakeholders to elicit and document business requirements
- Facilitate workshops to define use cases, scenarios, and regulatory needs
- Assess end-to-end process and data impacts of new capabilities across regulatory functions
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with Digital & Technology teams to support agile delivery and backlog refinement
- Serve as a key interface between business and technical teams to ensure alignment and clarity
- Identify opportunities for process optimization, data quality improvements, and capability advancement
- Support consistent application of business analysis standards, tools, and methodologies
- Contribute to successful implementation and adoption of regulatory system capabilities
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
- 8–12+ years of business analysis experience in life sciences or regulatory domains
- Experience with regulatory systems (e.g., Veeva RIM)
- Strong understanding of GxP environments and regulatory processes
Technical Competencies
- Requirements elicitation, documentation, and management
- Translation of business needs into structured technical artifacts
- Understanding of regulatory data models and process flows
- Experience working within Agile or hybrid delivery environments
Behavioral & Leadership Competencies
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to facilitate alignment between business and technical teams
- Structured thinking and problem-solving
- Clear and effective communication
- Continuous improvement mindset with focus on capability building
- Demonstrates Takeda leadership behaviors through strategic thinking, collaboration, delivery focus, and capability development
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 8–12+ years of business analysis experience in life sciences or regulatory domains
- Experience with regulatory systems (e.g., Veeva RIM)
- Strong understanding of GxP environments and regulatory processes
- Requirements elicitation, documentation, and management
- Translation of business needs into structured technical artifacts
- Understanding of regulatory data models and process flows
- Experience working within Agile or hybrid delivery environments
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to facilitate alignment between business and technical teams
- Structured thinking and problem-solving
- Clear and effective communication
- Continuous improvement mindset with focus on capability building
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.