Strategy and Performance Lead
Takeda
Summary
The Strategy & Performance Lead, Associate Director level, is responsible for translating the manufacturing site's strategic direction into clear priorities, executable plans, and measurable results. This role partners closely with the Site Leadership Team and functional leaders to connect enterprise and network priorities with site objectives, strategic initiatives, resource requirements, and performance measures.
Job description
The Strategy & Performance Lead establishes and maintains the management systems and governance routines that enable leadership to evaluate performance, identify gaps early, make informed trade-off decisions, and focus resources on the highest-value priorities. The role also leads the site's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process, including crisis management and business continuity.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy Development & Deployment
- Leads the annual and multi-year site strategy deployment process, translating enterprise, network, and site priorities into measurable objectives, initiatives, roadmaps, and performance outcomes.
- Partners with the Site Leadership Team and functional leaders to develop, deploy, and maintain the site Business Master Plan.
- Facilitates strategy deployment and catchball discussions across organizational levels to ensure priorities are understood, feasible, appropriately resourced, and translated into functional commitments.
- Ensures strategic priorities have clear ownership, KPIs, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and governance.
- Maintains a clear line of sight from strategy to priorities to initiatives to execution to outcomes.
Strategy Execution & Performance Management
- Owns the site's integrated strategy and performance-management framework, including KPIs, scorecards, and business-review processes.
- Translates strategic objectives into meaningful targets and leading and lagging performance indicators.
- Integrates operational, strategic, financial, transformation, and risk indicators into a coherent view of site performance.
- Leads the preparation and facilitation of monthly and quarterly business and performance reviews.
- Monitors execution of strategic initiatives and identifies performance gaps, dependencies, and emerging risks.
- Converts data and performance trends into actionable insights and recommendations for site leadership.
- Partners with Finance and functional leaders to connect operational performance, strategic outcomes, and value realization.
Enterprise Risk Management & Business Continuity
- Owns and continuously improves the site's Enterprise Risk Management framework and lifecycle.
- Ensures risks are systematically identified, assessed, prioritized, assigned, mitigated, monitored, and escalated.
- Maintains the site enterprise risk register and promotes clear accountability for risk ownership and mitigation actions.
- Facilitates cross-functional risk reviews and leadership discussions related to material and emerging risks.
- Leads and continuously improves the site Crisis Management and Business Continuity Program.
- Partners with site leadership to support effective activation of the Crisis Management Team when required.
- Coordinates annual crisis-management drills and training to strengthen organizational readiness.
- Promotes risk awareness and risk-informed decision-making throughout the organization.
Organizational Capability & Continuous Improvement
- Builds organizational capability in strategy deployment, performance management, portfolio management, and enterprise risk management.
- Develops practical tools, standards, routines, and training that enable leaders and initiative owners to manage execution effectively.
- Coaches leaders and teams in objective setting, KPI development, prioritization, problem-solving, risk management, and governance.
- Simplifies management processes and reduces duplicative reporting and governance wherever possible.
- Promotes a performance culture characterized by transparency, accountability, fact-based decision-making, appropriate escalation, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Operations, Finance, or a related discipline
- Seven or more years of experience in manufacturing, operations, strategy, operational excellence, transformation, program management, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience translating business strategy into executable plans and measurable outcomes
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations and cross-functional dependencies
- Experience with strategic portfolio, program, or project management
- Experience establishing or operating performance-management systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional work and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
- Experience supporting organizational change and transformation
- Preferred: MBA, master's degree, PMP, Lean Six Sigma certification, or comparable advanced qualification
- Preferred: Experience in pharmaceutical or other highly regulated manufacturing environments, including familiarity with cGMP, regulatory compliance, and quality systems
- Preferred: Experience with Enterprise Risk Management, crisis management, business continuity, or operational risk management
- Preferred: Experience with Hoshin Kanri, X-matrix, Lean management systems, operational excellence, or strategy deployment
- Preferred: Knowledge of financial planning, capital planning, and value-realization processes
- Preferred: Experience with portfolio-management and business-intelligence platforms such as Microsoft Power BI
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Matching
- 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.