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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Head of Demand Management in our Cambridge, MA office.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

OBJECTIVES:

R&D has centralized Lab Operations for supply of materials, equipment and services. The next stage in this evolution requires a Demand Management leader. This person will be responsible for developing forecast requirements for all purchased services, materials and equipment as well as the management of the day-to-day order capture for Consumables and Chemicals. The focus of this role is to assure delivery of the business plan savings.
 

This new role will set the foundations for a new Demand Management function:

• Staff manager of the Order Processing team to cover orders for Lab materials.
•Develop a reliable forecasting process & new analytical tools for Lab Materials (initially consumables & chemicals).
•Extend forecasting capability to the purchase of new Lab Equipment, particularly by providing a forward activity analysis by equipment type.
•Support External Business Management team in developing forecast methodologies to identify potential future contract savings for lab materials.
•Provide experience-based insights on potential areas of saving in Lab Ops and developing the data to support savings hypotheses
•Ensure consistent and efficient order management and order processing and tracking systems are deployed in partnership with planning team.
•Change manage on behalf of the team the IMS roll-out & extension plan. Engage global sites & educate for deployment. Manage communications of IMS benefits & use of dashboards.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

•Act as team leader and provide strategic direction to the Order Management team.
•Creating new analytical and forecasting tools using Power Apps and Power BI to provide insight on consumption or purchases of:
   1.Chemicals and Consumables
   2.Laboratory equipment
   3.Laboratory Services
•Provide change management & leadership for IMS global roll-out with the planning team
•Identifying and supporting delivery of savings opportunities in Lab Materials buying patterns and processes
•Identifying opportunities to postpone or avoid major capital spend on equipment based on fore-cast demands
•Identifying potential savings in service contracts through supplier and spend analytics combined with forecast consumption of contracts
•Providing detailed spend analysis & demand reports for materials, assets and services purchasing
•Translating potential savings into financially recognizable data and manage communications of dashboards and targets.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Education & Experience

•BS or MS degree required in science / technology / business subject.
•Minimum of 5+ years of managerial experience including supply chain planning and/or experience of R&D planning
•Proven track record of driving business process improvement and systems/planning change
•Operational experience in planning with significant focus on operations planning and materials management.

This position is currently classified as “ hybrid” in accordance with Takeda’s Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

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