Director, Global R&D Asset Transitions & Integration

Takeda; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 421,000 - 579,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Takeda Lodz, Poland, is seeking a Director to lead the R&D Asset Transition & Integration Office (RATIO). You will manage a global transition portfolio, drive digitized processes, and ensure quality and compliance across wind-downs, divestments, and externalizations.

You will guide a team of transition professionals, shape budgets, and implement standardized playbooks and KPIs while collaborating with external partners and internal functions.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in a scientific or related field required; advanced degree welcomed
• 10+ years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, particularly in R&D strategy and operations and/or program management
• Demonstrated people management experience, including direct line management
• Demonstrated delivery in global matrix environments
• Experience working with external counterparties—partners, licensors, CROs, or vendors
• Fluent English at a level suitable for global governance forums

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of transition professionals; set objectives, allocate assignments across the book of work, and manage performance, capability and career development
• Hold accountability for a portfolio of live transitions, ensuring budgets, schedules and performance standards are realistically set and attained; lean into more complex or sensitive transitions
• Own and/or support the design and implementation of a digitized, data-driven transition processes
• Drive and/or support process optimization across transition archetypes: standardized playbooks, templates and process maps, defined KPIs, and a continuous improvement cycle informed by structured lessons learned
• Govern the operating model, ways of working, and operational agreements between RATIO and the functions it depends on
• Provide strategic insight to senior leadership, including portfolio-level status, risk assessment, and resourcing plans
• Support build of organizational capability through training curricula, knowledge management, and the development of less experienced colleagues
• Ensure compliance and integrity across the portfolio, including contractual obligations, regulatory requirements, safety commitments, and data governance

Skills

Leadership

People management

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in science

Advanced degree welcomed

Tools

Planisware

Power BI

Workflow automation

AI-enabled tooling

Job description

Takeda Lodz, Poland, is seeking a Director to lead the R&D Asset Transition & Integration Office (RATIO). You will manage a global transition portfolio, drive digitized processes, and ensure quality and compliance across wind-downs, divestments, and externalizations.

You will guide a team of transition professionals, shape budgets, and implement standardized playbooks and KPIs while collaborating with external partners and internal functions.