Global Lead, Technology Operations & Facility Fit

Description

About the role:

• Set enterprise governance for equipment operations and facility-fit innovation to improve competitiveness, ensure compliance, and protect reliable patient supply across regulatory, quality, capacity, and environment,healthand safety requirements.

• Serve as the primary interface for manufacturing sites, driving equipment/technology operations support and resolving process and plant-engineering issues.

• Lead facility-fit assessments for manufacturing equipment and facilities to enable network strategy, capital investments, lifecycle management, and technology transfer.

How you will contribute:

• Lead manufacturing and plant equipment improvement programs to deliver right-first-time production, including contamination control initiatives.

• Evaluate equipment operations and implement improvements to increase efficiency, reliability, and product quality (e.g., throughput, overall equipment effectiveness).

• Lead facility and process-equipment evaluations and define design selection criteria to support network strategy, capital investments, lifecycle management, and technology transfer, within regulatory requirements.

• Drive technology innovation through subject matter expert working groups, ensuring standardization/commonality, sound solutionselection, and effective troubleshooting.

• Build andmaintainequipment capacitymodellingtomonitorutilization,identifybottlenecks, and unlock capacity across the manufacturing network.

• Support capital investment and business case development for equipment technology and facility fit, including benefits realization and funding logic.

• Act as the enterprise integrator across Manufacturing, Manufacturing Science and Technology, Quality, Environment Health Safety and Sustainability, Supply Chain, Digital/DD&T, Procurement, and Finance, including executive oversight of critical supplier/partner ecosystems to unblock delivery and communicate strategy and progress.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical,Chemical, Process, Industrial or Systems Engineering, ora relatedengineering disciplinerequired. Advanced degree in Engineering or MBA preferred.

• Demonstrated10+years ofprogressivetechnicalcompetence and leadership experiencein pharmaceutical engineering orsimilar industrywith strong understanding ofGxPcompliance and EHS requirements, includingICH, FDA,CMC, ISPE and PDAguidancedocuments.

• Demonstrated leadership capability with strongproblem-solving mindset, decision‑making, and influencing skills; ability to lead in a global matrix organization; proventrack recordin driving alignmentandmanaging change.

• Provenknowledgeand experienceinengineeringtechnologies supportingproductdevelopment and manufacturing,project execution,global process and facility engineering and the associated regulatory and quality requirements .

• Recognized as aproblem-solver,creative and innovative thinkerwith strong technical, interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.

Locations

Zurich, SwitzerlandLexington, MA, USA - MA - Lexington

Base Salary Range:

CHF177,400.00 - CHF243,980.00

For information about our benefits, please click .

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time