Associate Director, Medical Training & Compliance Lead

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + bonus

Hybrid work environment

Healthcare plans

Life and accident insurance

Employee assistance program

Learning platforms

Diversity & Inclusion programs

Leaves and parental leave benefits

Job summary

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. in Bengaluru seeks a senior Learning & Capability professional to design onboarding journeys and governance for medical capabilities. You will lead cross-functional efforts to improve readiness, adoption, and time-to-productivity across a global, regulated environment.

The role emphasizes governance, analytics, AI-enabled learning, and scalable knowledge management with a hybrid work model in an innovation hub.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years across learning and capability development, governance, compliance, or change enablement.
• Experience in global or regulated environments preferred.
• Degree in learning, business, life sciences, communications, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design role-based onboarding and learning journeys linked to operating model.
• Establish governance, training and framework for Medical capabilities.
• Track readiness, completion, confidence, application, and time to productivity.
• Coordinate cohorts, schedules, facilitators, platforms, and completion tracking.
• Maintain learner communications and audit-ready records.
• Manage vendors, budgets, and content updates.

Skills

Learning design

Capability development

Training governance

Knowledge management

Compliance

Risk monitoring

Audit-ready documentation

Education

Degree in learning, business, life sciences, communications

Job description

Job Description

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India’s epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

At Takeda’s GCC we Unite in Diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

• Design role-based onboarding and learning journeys linked to the operating model.
• Establish and maintain a governance, training and framework for Medical capabilities.
• Use feedback and performance data to continuously improve readiness and adoption.
• Enable GCM talent to become productive quickly and sustain new capabilities.
• Maintain an inspection-ready environment through effective governance of SOPs, training

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Learning and onboarding design

• Create role-based learning journeys from role, process, system, and capability needs.
• Assess learning needs and define objectives, curricula, assessments, and proficiency levels.
• Develop onboarding plans, facilitator materials, job aids, and knowledge resources.
• Coordinate content reviews and approvals with subject matter experts and control owners.

Delivery and coordination

• Coordinate cohorts, schedules, facilitators, platforms, and completion tracking.
• Deliver learning across formats, locations, and time zones.
• Maintain learner communications and audit-ready records.
• Manage vendors, budgets, and content updates.

Effectiveness and improvement

• Track readiness, completion, confidence, application, and time to productivity.
• Use feedback to improve learning and reinforcement.
• Scale knowledge management and AI-enabled learning.
• Use skills and gap analytics to guide reskilling, AI fluency, and mobility.

Governance, Compliance & Risk

• Maintain GCM governance, roles, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Assess risks, monitor controls, and coordinate exceptions and remediation.
• Partner with functional owners to address issues and elevate material risks.
• Oversee controlled documents throughout their lifecycle.
• Keep documentation accurate, accessible, current, and aligned with process changes.
• Maintain complete, retrievable evidence and assess readiness.
• Track findings and actions, applying lessons learned to strengthen processes.
• Track learning, compliance, control, transition, and remediation measures.
• Use trends and feedback to address gaps, prevent recurrence, and simplify processes.

Key interfaces

• Global Learning Strategy & Operations: Platform governance and content standards.
• Capability Strategy Leads and SMEs: Content accuracy and design.
• Medical Governance Office: Training-record and documentation compliance.

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS

• Technical expertise: Applies expertise in learning design, capability development, training governance, knowledge management, compliance, risk monitoring, and audit-ready documentation.
• Leadership: Leads global, cross-functional initiatives and stakeholder networks without direct reports; influences through expertise, facilitation, and governance.
• Decision-making: Recommends learning priorities, readiness actions, risk mitigations, and remediation plans. Escalates material risks and unresolved control gaps through established governance.
• Interaction: Partners with Medical leaders, SMEs, HR, Learning, Quality, Compliance, Regulatory, Audit, technology teams, and external vendors across countries and time zones.
• Innovation: Uses digital learning, analytics, automation, and responsible AI-enabled tools to improve onboarding, proficiency, compliance, and time to productivity.
• Complexity: Operates in a global, matrixed, regulated, and evolving environment, balancing standardization with local requirements and managing multiple interdependent priorities.
• Impact: Strengthens Medical capability, onboarding, compliance, inspection readiness, documentation quality, risk visibility, and sustained adoption of new ways of working.
• Scope: Global Medical GCM scope; no direct reports; responsible for assigned vendors, resources, and budgets within approved authority.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Experience: 8–12+ years across learning and capability development, governance, compliance, or change enablement; experience in global or regulated environments preferred.

Education: Degree in learning, business, life sciences, communications, or a related field.

Certifications: ATD/CIPD, instructional design, compliance, risk, quality, or change-management certifications preferred.

Technical skills: Learning design and platforms, knowledge and document management, learning analytics, risk and control tracking, and responsible use of AI-assisted tools.

Professional skills: Strong facilitation, governance, stakeholder coordination, risk-based judgment, measurement-led improvement, and clear, inclusive communication.

BENEFITS

It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are:

• Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus
• Flexible work environment, including hybrid working
• Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children
• Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Broad Variety of learning platforms
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
• Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone
• Employee Referral Program
• Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 calendar days)

ABOUT GCC IN TAKEDA

• Takeda is leading a digital revolution. We’re not just transforming our company; we’re improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day.
• As an organization, we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the GCCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.

Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time