Associate Scientist/Principal Scientist, Process Engineering, Pharmaceutical Science

Accountabilities： Leads and manages a group of Engineers, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and performance management to ensure the team's success and professional growth. Develops project and/ or significant technical strategy and leverages technical skill(s) as a resource/expert within the department. Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, including process chemistry, analytical development, drug product development, manufacturing, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs, to develop and implement effective process engineering strategies. Drives process optimization initiatives to improve sustainability, process efficiency, yield, quality, and cost-effectiveness, utilizing expertise in process chemistry and fundamental engineering principles. Oversees process scale-up activities from laboratory to pilot plant and commercial-scale production, ensuring smooth technology transfer and process validation. Has full accountability for all engineering aspects for multiple pipeline projects. Initiates complex projects with extraordinary technical challenges and applies strong technical risk assessment skills. Owns a discipline/technical skill in its entirety and continues to develop expertise in other key technical skills. Contributes significantly to develop, drive and set the vision and direction of departmental activities, management of resources, time, personnel and financial resources. Maintains ownership of overall vision of scientific platform. Communicates and coordinates implementation of technology/scientific improvement to senior management, across therapeutic and scientific areas. Conducts analysis of technical and conceptual risk through robust process characterization, failure mode analysis, and risk assessment methodologies, identifies trends and defines and champions process or scientific strategies. Incorporates novel manufacturing, technologies and industry trends as a key aspect of scientific strategy development. Maintains complete technical responsibility for program(s)/initiative(s) within the department. Leverages cross functional knowledge to guide pharmaceutical sciences teams on potential impact of actions across projects, particularly in technical aspects. Ensures effective project management of all plans and projects within area of responsibility, linking all scientific efforts to company, program and functional goals. Leads small working groups as appropriate to address knowledge gaps in programs linking departmental strategy to strategies of other relevant functions. Identifies topics for initiatives and leads local/global initiatives on behalf of senior staff. Recognized as a technical leader/resource by the group and fosters development of technology skill sets within department and among junior staff. Contributes to departmental strategy around scientific improvement and new capabilities. Makes proposals regarding sourcing/consultancy strategy. Coordinates and leads technology transfer to internal or external manufacturing sites or vendor Communicates with senior management of other functions on implementation of infrastructure, technology, work processes, or business processes. Responsible for authoring relevant sections of regulatory documents, validation plans, development reports, process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), process descriptions and peer reviewed manuscripts. Defines outsourcing strategy for department in conjunction with senior staff. Proactively identifies vendors and builds relationships to gain access to technologies as needed to deliver against pipeline goals. Manages key vendor relationships across multiple projects as appropriate, and proactively affects resolution of issues arising at vendors. Represents Takeda and is an active member on pre-competitive collaborations with academic and industrial partners.

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