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Job Description

Title: Associate Director Data Governance

Location: Cambridge MA

About the role:

As an Associate Director Data Governance you will be responsible for defining implementing and overseeing data governance policies practices and capabilities across R&D data domains in collaboration with business and enterprise stakeholders. You will ensure data quality integrity security and regulatory compliance throughout the R&D data lifecycle enabling trusted data for analytics and prioritized AI use cases.

How will you contribute:

• Support and facilitate governance councils and committees to enable end-to-end R&D Data Governance program across all data domains.

• Establish and maintain data governance capabilities and practices in collaboration with SMEs that ensure appropriate access to complete trustworthy data in compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Plan implement and continuously improve data governance capabilities including identifying and mitigating risks and prioritizing and executing improvement initiatives.

• Design and embed governance frameworks directly into platforms and workflows to enable scalable automated governance rather than manual oversight.

• Define align and operationalize data use and data access policies across R&D.

• Ensure responsible data usage by monitoring and reporting on data access and usage identifying correcting and preventing risky or non-compliant behaviors.

• Develop maintain and implement data governance policies and procedures.

• Align R&D data governance policies with enterprise-wide standards.

• Ensure data is Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable within the organization.

• Facilitate the design and deployment of FAIR data practices.

• Create and maintain a taxonomy for data restrictions and qualifications.

• Implement and manage systems to enable automated self-service data access.

• Uphold high standards of data quality integrity and privacy. Collaborate with Enterprise Legal Ethics & Compliance Privacy and Global Data Council on data policy development and deployment.

• Monitor short medium and long-term governance needs.

• Report on data access and usage addressing and preventing risky behavior.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Minimum: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Data Science Business Administration or a related field. Preferred: Masters or Ph.D. in Data Science Information Management Business Administration or related field.

• Minimum: 7-10 years of experience in data governance data management compliance and policy management within pharmaceutical healthcare or life sciences organizations.

• Demonstrated experience designing and managing systems that support automated self-service data access.

• Proven ability to align data governance policies with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Deep expertise in data governance frameworks regulatory compliance and data privacy.

• Proven knowledge across R&D data domains including Research Clinical Regulatory Safety and Portfolio in a regulated biopharmaceutical environment.

• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.

• Experience developing and implementing data governance policies aligned to business and compliance needs.

• Strong strategic thinking risk management and problem-solving skills.

Desired:

• Additional experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare regulatory and data privacy environments.

• Practical working knowledge of AI use cases and data pipelines to enable.

• Familiarity with data governance platforms data lakes and data warehousing solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change through data-driven decision-making and strategic initiatives.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

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U.S. Base Salary Range:

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position years of relevant experience specific and unique skills level of education attained certifications or other professional licenses held and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical dental vision insurance a 401(k) plan and company match short-term and long-term disability coverage basic life insurance a tuition reimbursement program paid volunteer time off company holidays and well-being benefits among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive per calendar year up to 80 hours of sick time and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

EEO Statement

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