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**Job Title**: Quality Services & Improvements Lead
**Location**:Rieti
**_ OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE _**
- Optimize Quality processes, guaranteeing compliance and efficiency.
- Partner with Finance, Capital Management and Business Excellence teams to ensure optimal allocation of resources to support Quality initiatives and priorities, representing a key player and facilitator in the OPEX/CAPEX processes management.
- Be responsible for alignment and governance, into the Quality department, for current and capital expenditures forecasting, spending, invoicing and final reconciliations processes.
- Coordinate Quality projects, initiatives, process improvements and best practice sharing across the Site quality organization; including appropriate tools and training.
- Support Quality team to promote and drive strategic thinking and innovative approaches to change the business. This includes the sponsorship / lead / coordination of various change/transformation and continuous improvement initiatives that will lead to an appropriate resource optimization.
- Support the development of Quality Strategies to ensure a harmonized and integrated quality approach that will provide oversight and governance to enable Site Quality to successfully change the business. Help achieve the Quality vision based on Science, Systems and People.
- Promote a Quality Culture through collaboration and partnerships, innovation, continuous improvement, and a learning environment that includes knowledge and best practices sharing.
**_ ACCOUNTABILITIES_**
- Monitor the cost adherence to the budget for the site Quality Organization and act as facilitator in the OPEX/CAPEX processes management.
- Control and supervision of the budgets spending phases and targets, representing a SME and providing guideline for/to all the Quality budget owners.
- Promote Cost Efficiency initiatives, managing and/or overseeing projects in Quality Areas.
- Support Quality teams in the purchase orders lifecycle (from quotation trough accrual) in cooperation with Purchasing team.
- Act as a Project Manager, specifically for the projects related to optimization, simplification, digitalization and cost reduction in Quality area, including QC lab transformation process.
- Support Quality strategy deployment and must-win alignment in collaboration with the Business Excellence Team, especially the activities aiming to create value and streamline processes.
- Promote digitalization and use of innovative digital Technologies like Machine Learning, RPA, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Advanced Data Analytics in Quality.
- Support change to help the organization navigate through the complexities of transformation, minimize disruptions, and maximize the chances of successful implementation and sustainable change.
**_ EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILL& _**
- Masters' or Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Management preferred), Business and/or other scientific fields.
- 3-5 years (preferred) of experience in Pharmaceutical Industry or analogue Business Areas.
- Preferred - 3 years of leadership experience in managing projects/coordination of activities.
- Analytical and critical Thinking Skills - utilizes observation, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation in decision making.
- Knowledge of new emerging technologies (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Big Data analytics), gained during education path or with on the floor experience.
- Lean mentality and proven training on Lean methodologies
- Strong communication and negotiation skills.
- Flexibility, reliability, goal-orientation and problem-solving attitudes.
- Fluent English (written and verbal).
- General knowledge of main international regulations (e.g. FDA, EMEA), GcP, GMP and GDP guidelines, ICH, ISO, PIC/S and other relevant current industry standards.
**More about us**:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
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