Digital Global Clinical Supply Chain Leader

Takeda; Lexington (MA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda in Lexington, MA is seeking a senior professional to lead and optimize Global Clinical Supply Chain digital capabilities. You will drive cross-functional collaboration, manage complex projects, and deliver enhancements across inventory and control-tower platforms.

Your role emphasizes automation, AI, and data-driven workflows to improve decision-making and productivity while ensuring regulatory compliance and seamless production releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred in Scientific, business or supply chain (or significant job-related experience) preferred
• 8+ years relevant related work experience.
• Job related experience dealing with Supply Chain operations.
• Microsoft Power Platform experience and/or certification a plus.
• Highly productive and self-driven.
• Hands on experience and preferably implementation experience with pharmaceutical manufacturing, clinical supply chain, and related systems (SmartSignals, SAP, IRT, etc.)
• Demonstrated competency in project management and process analysis.
• Demonstrated creative problem solving.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, maintaining, and enhancing processes.
• Understanding of metrics and key performance indicators driving supply chain operations.
• Leads numerous cross-functional teams in inspirational and congenial manner.
• Great communication and organizational skills; proactively manages multiple tasks simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional initiatives that strengthen Global Clinical Supply Chain’s digital capabilities, improve processes, and increase operational efficiency.
• Apply supply chain expertise, systems knowledge, and project leadership to deliver compliant upgrades and meaningful enhancements across inventory and control-tower platforms.
• Advance automation and AI capabilities to improve how supply chain information is created, managed, and used.
• Develop applications, analytics, dashboards, and more efficient supply chain workflows that support better decisions and boost team productivity.
• Acts as key decision-maker for various Global Clinical Supply Chain (GCSC) systems, digital capabilities, integrations, and supporting reference documentation.
• Leads supply chain initiatives to enhance digital capabilities using skilled cross-functional facilitation, deep supply chain expertise and applied project management.
• Takes advantage of new technologies including various types of algorithms, automation and artificial intelligence to drive supply chain efficiencies.
• Handles system outages and integration failures, keeping clinical orders and production release work running smoothly without interruption.
• Drives streams of GCSC SmartSignals activities including configuration updates, user training, and ensuring systems compliance within GCSC and supporting system integration with key GCSC external vendors and internal systems.
• Owns elements of Control Tower development and implementation, including aspects of custom alert development and introduction of new capabilities.
• Owns GxP compliance for aspects of the platform, and can represent systems on their own during inspections.
• Leads the development, implementation, and management of various GCSC business processes.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Process analysis

Creative problem solving

Communication and organization

Self-driven / highly productive

Hands-on with pharmaceutical systems (

Education

Bachelor's degree in scientific, business or supply chain

8+ years relevant work experience

Tools

Power Platform

SmartSignals

SAP

IRT

Job description

Takeda in Lexington, MA is seeking a senior professional to lead and optimize Global Clinical Supply Chain digital capabilities. You will drive cross-functional collaboration, manage complex projects, and deliver enhancements across inventory and control-tower platforms.

Your role emphasizes automation, AI, and data-driven workflows to improve decision-making and productivity while ensuring regulatory compliance and seamless production releases.