Associate Director - Analytics, Global Regulatory Affairs

Overview

Base pay range: $137,000.00/yr - $215,270.00/yr. Location: Massachusetts - Virtual. This role involves strategic and operational oversight of custom analytics deliveries from Global Regulatory Affairs, including Business Intelligence solutions and related semantic layer dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic and operational oversight of the semantic layer and custom analytics capabilities in alignment with the Global Regulatory Analytics lead.
• Work with primary business stakeholders to strategically align, shape and optimize requests for organizational and pre-existing solution alignment.
• Support in-flight resources to understand and document data & insight requirements and technical specification needs.
• Monitor, facilitate, and report on key initiatives/deliveries across multiple stakeholders following existing processes, best practices, and timelines.
• Conduct group workshops, focused discussions, interviews and surveys for critical initiatives and roadmap development.
• Build and establish key strategic relationships within the business and IT teams.
• Establish best practices and industry/company standards for improving operational efficiency.

Core Profile

• Ability to profile uses of operational process data and mash-up with behavioral data when required.
• Visionary in determining how solution components fit together and driving integration across business processes.
• Strong communication skills, customer-focused, metrics-driven, and able to discuss costs and trade-offs with customers and the GRA Analytics Team.
• Ability to understand, plan, and collaborate on evolutionary paths for solution integrations, new technology insertions, and risk mitigation.

Essential Communicative Qualities

• Well-respected and influential; able to communicate and influence peers, senior IT and business leaders.
• Emphasis on methodology, modeling, and governance; knowledgeable in architectural and data modeling principles.
• Technologically and politically neutral; capable of engaging with technical experts impartially.
• Articulate, persuasive, and a good facilitator; able to educate and present ideas clearly.
• Enthusiastic about technology, systems analysis and design; committed to the mission of the Global Regulatory Affairs Analytics team.

Business Qualifications

• Strong business acumen with interpersonal, leadership, and teamwork skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in Shared Services as a delivery model, with awareness of costs, chargeback models and quality considerations.
• Proven experience leading high-profile, dynamic projects involving technology development.
• Team player capable of influencing at all organizational levels to achieve consensus.
• Self-starter who can work independently in a fast-paced environment and deliver actionable solutions.

Minimum Requirements / Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including at least five years as a business systems analyst working with software, AI, data integration, data analytics, and reporting technologies (e.g., Informatica, MicroStrategy, IBM, SAS, Alteryx, Dataiku, Power BI, Tableau, Python).
• Working knowledge of systems analysis and process modeling techniques/tools (e.g., SSADM, DFD, ERD, Data Schemas, Data Normalization & Data Dictionaries).
• Experience leading high-profile projects involving technology development from start to finish.
• Ability to translate concepts into scoping blueprints and to elicit requirements from business users and data owners.
• Experience with data governance, data ownership, risk and compliance functions and techniques.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across Shared Services models with awareness of costs and quality.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Education & Professional Credentials

• BS in Business Administration – Management Information Systems
• BS in Business Administration – General Administrative
• BS/BA in Information Technology/Computer Science

Compensation & Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is important. This summary reflects the U.S. base salary range and typical benefits. The actual base salary offered will depend on qualifications, experience, location, and other factors.

Location

Massachusetts - Virtual

Job Details

• Time Type: Full time
• Worker Type: Employee
• Job Exempt: Yes

EEO Statement

Takeda is proud of its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or protected veteran status, in accordance with applicable laws.

Locations: Massachusetts - Virtual