Deputy Head of Financial Controlling – Europe

Job Description

At Takeda, we aspire to cure cancer, with inspiration from patients and innovation from everywhere. We value employees with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. As a member of our team, you would bring your unique perspective to help us achieve our aspiration and help us demonstrate our commitment to patients on a daily basis.

We ensure a tight connection from research to development to commercialization to rapidly meet the needs of the cancer community, optimizing our ability to bring transformative medicines to patients. Our demonstrated leadership in the treatment of hematologic cancers and solid tumors, combined with cutting-edge science through multiple platforms, partnerships and therapeutic approaches, enable us to bring novel medicines to patients worldwide.

At Takeda, you will have access to the resources of a company with over 200 years of heritage, a diverse and robust pipeline, a values-driven culture and career development opportunities.

As the Evidence Generation & Epidemiology Strategic Lead, your role will be to assess needs, complementing the R&D product development plans by developing value demonstration arguments to meet the medical strategy of the products and facilitate or maintain their market access.

Main Responsibilities:

• Support Medical teams in assessing data generation needs to meet the medical strategy of products and facilitate or maintain their market access. Implement complex data analysis methodologies (modeling, synthetic control studies, etc.) when necessary, identify external data sources required for studies, and manage collaboration with data source holders (interaction, contracting), adhering to Ethics and Compliance rules.
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of data from Global/EUCAN development plans for drug registration with regulatory agencies against the expectations of the Haute Autorité de Santé to optimize the creation of missing value in anticipation of the end of Phase IIb.
• Establish a 3-year local real-world data generation plan in conjunction with Medical teams and PV&A and in coordination with Global teams. Coordinate methodological choices for studies and ensure adherence to internal governance in terms of operational leadership based on the type of data collection (primary = Medical Lead; secondary = PV&A Lead). Establish and adhere to timelines for the availability of expected results in accordance with reimbursement and pricing dossier schedules.
• Contribute to budget estimation for data generation plans to prepare the MRP. In collaboration with Medical teams, support budget management for studies during execution and find budgetary solutions for complementary analyses as needed.
• Develop and/or validate protocols for epidemiological studies and early access, submit protocols for internal validation processes, and ensure follow-up on submissions to external instances of the HDH.
• Set up and follow outsourced studies and possibly conduct part of the studies. Prepare requests for proposals from partners (CRO), supervise external providers for real-world and epidemiological studies. Analyze study results and participate in constructing scientific arguments. Write reports, communicate results. Ensure the drafting of abstracts and manuscripts in compliance with internal procedures in close collaboration with Medical teams and the Global Publication department.
• Design/maintain methodological tools and procedures governing real-world data generation activities. Contribute to internal and external audits, ensuring compliance and documentation of adherence to rules, and participate in audits related to reference methodologies of the CNIL, in collaboration with the Legal department.
• Respond to expertise and information needs from internal partners (Medical, PV&A, Business Units), for the France subsidiary and for Global for real-world and epidemiological studies. Educate and train concerned services on data collection (ARC, investigators...)
• Select methodological experts and monitor service contracts in compliance with rules of interaction with healthcare professionals. Ensure, with the Medical department, the management of scientific committees for studies and generally the professional relationships with academics, institutions (Inserm, HAS, ...) in compliance with Ethics and Compliance rules.
• Select preferred partners (CRO) for conducting observational studies, in collaboration with the Purchasing department. Prepare and monitor service contracts. Contribute to audits in collaboration with the Quality department.
• Monitor national and international methodological recommendations in the field of real-world studies. In particular, prepare and follow the evolution of requirements for the future European Joint Clinical Assessment in collaboration with the PV&A team and Global teams. Communicate expected impacts of these developments internally.
• Provide expertise and skills in scientific and operational methodology to co-lead with the PV&A department the Data Generation Strategy Committee (CSGD) composed of members from FET (General Management, Medical, PV&A, BU).
• Participate in Takeda France's actions and contributions to external working groups and training of external partners, related to real-world data generation.
• Supervise interns/junior staff as needed.

Profile:

• Physician / Pharmacist / PhD Engineer in Biotechnology and Life Sciences
• At least 10 years of experience in healthcare companies (Laboratories, CRO, ...)
• Strong knowledge in Methodologies and Statistics
• Successful experience in designing complex real-world data generation plans (including literature review, indirect comparisons, primary or secondary studies), conducting studies involving medico-administrative data from HDH, collaborating with experts, publishing real-world data in the form of abstracts and scientific manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals, and contributing to the preparation of transparency dossiers and/or medico-economic dossiers
• Successful contribution to training following requests from external operators (continuing education organizations, universities)
• Fluent in English

Additional Information:

Skills

• Excellent knowledge of real-world, epidemiological, and medico-economic studies.
• Mastery of methodologies for medico-economic approaches and predictive artificial intelligence.
• Ability to establish and lead data generation and modeling projects, select providers, manage project budgets, and manage cross-functional teams and relationships with opinion leaders and methodological experts.
• Skills in drafting transparency dossiers and adapting medico-economic models.

Empowering our people to shine

At Takeda, we earn the trust of society and our customers through our values of Takeda-ism: Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, Perseverance. We incorporate these values in everything we do. They represent who we are and how we act. They help us make decisions that we can be proud of today and in the future.

We enable our employees to develop their full potential. As a global top employer, we offer exciting career paths, promote innovation, and strive for top performance in everything we do. Takeda fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and international work environment where our teams are united by their relentless commitment to our goal of improving people's health and creating a better future for the world.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

Takeda is committed to fostering diversity, equality, and inclusion. Hiring decisions are based entirely on qualifications and are made regardless of gender, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we look forward to receiving your application via our online tool!

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Locations

FRA - France - Paris

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time