Sr Operational Excellence Specialist

About the role

Join our team as a Senior Operational Excellence Specialist, where you’ll connect and collaborate across global and regional networks to bring leading Good Practices to our site—and share our site’s Good Practices with others.

How you will contribute

• Partner with global, regional, and cross-functional teams to identify, adapt, and implement Good Practices at the site, and share site learnings across the network.
• Champion AGILE 4.0 ways of working to improve performance, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Drive operational excellence and supply reliability to ensure consistent patient supply.
• Identify opportunities aligned to site strategy; define clear outcomes, measures, and visibility of results.
• Build strong business cases (“burning platforms”) to create urgency, alignment, and momentum for change.
• Lead and coach cross-functional teams through change to deliver sustainable, measurable improvements.
• Earn and develop talent by building capability in others through coaching and on-the-job learning.
• Deliver workshops and lead end-to-end implementations, from problem definition through sustainment.
• Serve as a role model in AGILE Operational Excellence, demonstrating strength in root-cause problem solving, 5S, Standard Work, visual management (including tier mechanisms), and Leader GEMBA.
• Accelerate innovation by integrating digital tools and technologies that advance site capabilities and competitiveness.

What you bring to Takeda

• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Background in Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Lean would be advantage but not necessary; Six Sigma green belt or black training / certification a plus
• 2+ years of experience desirable in the biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry would be ideal
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills
• Advanced PC skills such as MS Office, process mapping software, Minitab
• Experience in FDA regulated environment, Good Manufacturing Practices, ISO 9001 is a plus
• Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Must have strong organizational and project management abilities along with knowledge of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement approaches.

Important Considerations

• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• Work in a cold, wet environment.
• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

• USA - GA - Social Circle - Hwy 278

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. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

• U.S. Base Salary Range: $89,900.00 - $141,240.00

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others.

U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

EEO Statement

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

• USA - GA - Social Circle - Hwy 278

Worker Type

• Employee

Worker Sub-Type

• Regular

Time Type

• Full time

Exempt

• Yes