Global Network Volume Planning Lead

Join us as our Global Network Volume Planning Lead, owning the end-to-end planning process across Takeda’s manufacturing network and external partners.

About the Role

In this role, you will align demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and finance to support reliable patient supply and financial commitments; integrate Global Planning, manufacturing, Commercial, and Finance; and establish a transparent, data-driven view of network volumes, particularly across the 0–36-month horizon. You will provide senior stakeholders with insights, scenario analysis, and decision support while driving standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across planning processes, systems, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern global network volume planning across manufacturing sites and external partners.
• Ensure complete, accurate, consistent, and aligned volume data across stakeholders and planning horizons, maintaining a reliable single source of truth.
• Lead MRP, MYC, and monthly planning cycles, integrating demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and financial commitments into system inputs, execution plans, and business projections.
• Support automation and improve the use of supply volume data to enhance the speed and accuracy of projections.
• Ensure timely inputs for year-to-go projections, plan adherence, and schedule performance reporting, while validating system outputs against agreed assumptions.
• Identify and escalate risks, gaps, and opportunities through appropriate governance forums.
• Deliver analytics and insights that support fact-based decisions and continuous performance improvement.
• Integrate Global Planning, manufacturing sites, Commercial, and Finance, facilitating alignment across a global matrix organization and influencing without formal authority.
• Clearly communicate planning assumptions, risks, decisions, and performance insights to senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Standardize and simplify planning processes in line with Takeda standards, enhancing the use of SAP IBP, APO, SAC, and data governance practices.
• Implement improvements to processes, governance, reporting, and analytics to strengthen planning maturity and decision quality.
• Promote continuous improvement, accountability, and execution excellence.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Life Sciences, Business, or a related field.
• At least five years of experience in global supply chain or planning, ideally within the pharmaceutical or another regulated industry.
• Experience with multi-site manufacturing networks and complex supply chains.
• Strong expertise in S&OP, IBP, OBP, SAC, or related network planning processes and governance frameworks.
• Strong financial acumen; experience working in or closely with Finance is an advantage.
• Experience executing integrated planning processes and translating data and analysis into actionable business decisions.
• Strong knowledge of IBP, S&OP, and supply review processes.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, including confidence working with large datasets and complex planning assumptions.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders and cross-functional audiences.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a global, cross-functional, matrix organization and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• An enterprise mindset, strong systems-thinking skills, and a commitment to data-driven decision-making.
• High resilience, accountability, and execution discipline.
• The ability to identify improvement opportunities, lead change, and improve processes and outcomes.
• A supply chain certification, such as APICS/CPIM, Lean, or Six Sigma, is preferred.
• A commitment to Takeda’s leadership expectations prioritizing patient impact and supply reliability; thinking strategically; collaborating and influencing across functions and geographies; delivering on commitments; developing organizational capability in volume planning and analytics; and embracing change.

Pay

U.S. Base Salary Range: $137,000.00 - $215,270.00. The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Benefits

• Short-term and/or long-term incentives.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan and company match.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Paid volunteer time off.
• Company holidays.
• Well-being benefits.
• Up to 80 hours of sick time per calendar year.
• New hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

Schedule

Full time, exempt.

Location: Lexington, MA