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Job Description

About the role:

As a R&D Veeva CoE Solution Lead, you will lead a product initiative within the Takeda portfolio, focusing on customer needs, strategic product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy. This role ensures the product aligns with business objectives and delivers value across the organization.

How will you contribute:

• Serves as the single point of contact for cross-vault Veeva Vault value definition and realization activities at the platform level.

• Act as a point of contact and subject matter expert that will enable, track, explain cross-vault automation and vault connectivity to other Takeda technology that maximizes business value of the platform.

• Collaborate with the Vault platform business owners and business process owners to understand business needs and align to overall cross-vault platform strategy.

• Develop and own Veeva Vault platform roadmap based on aligned cross-vault platform strategy.

• Develop and maintain Veeva Vault Platform solution roadmap, incorporating cross-vault connectors and vault to external system integrations.

• Develop understanding of the core technology issues central to the R&D Veeva Vault Platform through shared partnerships with functional business areas.

• Be a Steering Committee member of key cross-vault programs.

• Partner with execution teams and function-specific capabilities to support impact assessments and plan for cross-Vault feature implementation, change management and training.

• Establish and manage Veeva COE engagement via community development, newsletters, town halls, etc.

• Define and monitor success metrics related to the value of the Veeva Platform and ensure the value of the Veeva Platform is realized.

• Serve as single point of contact for the cross-vault, and vault to external systems solution roadmap, based on the cross-vault strategy defined with the broader COE in conjunction with the functional business units.

• Participate in R&D Veeva CoE leadership team meetings.

• Define and establish standard best practices for delivery of R&D Vault training, communications, and change management in partnership with change management leaders within the R&D Organization.

• Identify and advocate for cross-vault / vault-to-non-vault technology that maximizes business benefit of the platform.

• Strong knowledge of product management methodologies.

• Operational knowledge of Veeva Vault

• Operational knowledge of relevant R&D business processes as they relate to Veeva Vault.

• Establish and manage Veeva Vault platform cross-vault and vault to external system solution roadmap through collaboration with COE team members and functional business stakeholders.

• Present solution roadmap to internal stakeholders and align resources to deliver roadmap.

• Provide Voice of the Customer feedback and continuous improvement

• Leverage independent judgment to determine optimal methods of task completion and work prioritization.

• Adherence to R&D policies, processes and standards.

• Authority to delegate tasks and responsibilities to other team-members.

• Within the R&D Veeva CoE team – working with peers to deliver across business regions in a seamless fashion.

• Work with Global Development Compliance, to ensure process, change and training activities related to cross-vault solutions are accounted for and delivered.

• Within the R&D team – working with leaders and designees across the organization to ensure consistent, seamless delivery on platform product management activities, share best practices with other product leaders and ensure alignment between cross-vault processes and business processes.

• External Partners: working with external vendors, to implement cross-vault platform solutions

• Participation in Technology platform and services pilots and solution finding with the R&D Veeva CoE Team.

• Creativity in addressing technical challenges in highly regulated and complex environment.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems or related field or equivalent experience required, Master’s Degree preferred.

• 6+ years experience  as a product manager in a complex, multi-product environment.

• 2+ Years of setting performance standards in a comparable role

• Prosci other other relevant change management certification would be ideal.

• Experience managing FTE, consulting and/or contract resources to support product development activities.

• Strong analytical, communication, interpersonal and organizational skills required.

• A collaborative and curious mindset is an absolute must.

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Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

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For Location:

Boston, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$137,000.00 - $215,270.00

EEO Statement

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Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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