Head of Enterprise Excellence

**About** the role**:

- The Head of Enterprise Excellence (EE) is responsible for developing and leading comprehensive, enterprise wide business process improvement initiatives and ensures alignment of improvement initiatives to strategy.
- The Head of EE leads a global team of Lean/Six Sigma/OE practitioners who are focused on building operational and functional excellence capabilities.
- The Head of EE identifies opportunities for operational efficiency and process improvement. By fostering operational & functional excellence and a performance-oriented culture he /she drives optimized integration across all functions and measurably fuels top business performance.
- The Head of EE is responsible for a framework that provides value-added, best-in-class operational and business excellence that connects and communicates across the organization. He/she provides benchmark against industry peers and brings innovative and transformative practices into Takeda.

**_ SCOPE _**

The Head of Enterprise Excellence connects with the organization and communicates broadly across all layers in the organization on continuous improvement programs at global, network, and site level.

Ownership of Enterprise Excellence project portfolios, AGILE Operating System, Co-Sponsor for Rapid Response Process (Investigation of Global Supply Disrupting Events), Coordination with GQ, External Benchmarking: McKinsey POBOS, BPOG Coordination, Other Peer Benchmarking.

**How you will contribute**:

- Develops and implements a comprehensive strategy to improve the operational performance of the organization by aligning with senior leaders and executives to identify areas for improvement, defines scopes, resource requirements, timelines and budgets. Closely collaborate with leaders across the organization, negotiating and influencing decisions to align with the strategy (15%)
- Establishes and coordinates teams to effectively run key strategic programs and initiatives to transform operational performance of Takeda. Manages multiple competing priorities and risks, and provides direction to program/portfolio leads and support functions. Guides prioritization and task assignments in alignment with overall GMS objectives. (20%)
- Provides direction, development and coaching of Enterprise Excellence team on all aspects of the EE Program, building skills and competencies to deliver upon Takeda’s strategy 20%
- Develops and executes an Enterprise Excellence Programs and roadmaps, designed to improve throughput/capacity, quality, safety, launch & supply excellence, colleague engagement & development, cost-competitiveness, enabling the GMS/GQ Value Proposition across the organization (20%)
- Responsible for developing and driving a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. This includes developing and implementing continuous improvement processes, identifying areas for improvement, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration (5%)
- AGILE EE Workstream Owner, providing leadership and direction to eAGILE Transformation Program 10%
- Coaches senior leaders on all aspects of the Enterprise Excellence Program, AGILE Operating System (AOS) & supporting leadership behaviors; Leads GMS Business Excellence Network Community of Practice (5%)
- Partners with other executives and senior management to identify opportunities for process improvement and operational efficiency (5%)
- Communicates progress and results of improvement initiatives to key stakeholders and senior management

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DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS _**

**Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise**
- Must have broad and deep experience in Enterprise Excellence standard practices and techniques (e.g. Lean & Six Sigma) and hands
- on experience in all aspects of pharma and biopharmaceuticals operations.
- Must be current with industry best practices and technologies and is able to identify emerging trends and technologies and their potential impact on functions
- Excellent organizational and leadership coaching skills essential
- Superior communication skills, both oral and written
- Ability to adapt work priorities in response to complex and/or rapidly changing business environment
- Operate in a multi-cultural environment
- Deliver results to business timelines with limited resources
- Influence executive-level leaders and colleagues at all levels in the business
- Flexibility and ability to assimilate new knowledge and standards quickly

**Leadership**

Takeda expects all employees to embody the following Values and Priorities:

- Values - Integrity, Honesty, Fairness, Perseverance
- Priorities - Patient Trust, Reputation, Business
- Provides leadership, integrity, team orientation, flexibility, and innovation experience in projects that require collaborative approaches, strong analytical skills and has a solid understanding of business issues and pro-cesses
- Strategic Thinking: Develops and implements strategies, policies and tactics. Coordinates multiple and changing prior