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Job Description
ROLE OBJECTIVE
Ethics & Compliance (E&C) focuses on catalyzing a company-wide culture in which all Takeda employees are empowered and accountable for ethical actions that serve patients, people and the planet and advance sustainable growth.
E&C team has to respond rapidly to changing environment and business needs, it is close to the market and encourages ethical behavior in line with Takeda's values. By working in an agile manner E&C ensures the balance between stable structures, governance, processes and systems, and dynamic approaches to delivering innovative solutions to appropriately manage our risks.
E&C commits to:
- Act as role model for Takeda's values, ethics and values-based decision making, fostering this mindset in clients, partners and team.
- Enable the organization to take decisions which are ethical and in line with the Takeda-ism and our priorities of Patient, Trust, Reputation, and Business.
- Collaborate and partner with stakeholders in BU / BF to embed ethics and compliance as part of the way everyone works at Takeda.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Ensure implementation and execution of the Ethics & Compliance Program and act as business partner in supporting the local teams in shaping the organizational mindset around PTRB (Patient-Trust-Reputation-Business)-Model to firmly embed ethical decision-making principles.
- Provide expert local support in-sight on regulatory environment as well as identifying and escalation emerging issues in market.
- Support cross-functional teams on Transparency Reporting, procedure development, training, and related compliance projects and initiatives and internal control environment enhancement.
- Support the implementation of LOC's healthcare compliance and ethics written standards, procedures, controls and guidance documents, including the design, development and implementation of policy infrastructure and framework in line with Takeda's global Compliance Policies and Procedures.
- Support and execute the Compliance Risk Assessment, the Enterprise Risk Assessment, risk mitigation and monitoring (ensure analysis of results to identify trends, outliers and opportunities for the LOC remediations)
- Ensure timely resolution of audit findings and related remediation plans.
- Support the deployment of live and web-based compliance training to LOC, employees, and consultants and other Third Parties raising awareness on compliance-relevant matters such as global, regional & local enforcement trends.
- Communicate progress on compliance program and initiatives to functional leads, various levels of management and to EUCAN Compliance verbally and in written materials.
- Participate in and provide market feedback to global / BU / BF agile projects.
- Support local CoC Ambassador Network.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge for regulatory environments concerning events & HCP regulations.
- Acts as role model for Takeda's values, ethics and values-based decision making.
SKILLS and CAPABILITIES
Education and Experience:
- Master's degree in business administration, Law, or related field
- Healthcare or pharmaceutical industry experience is strongly preferred
- Proven experience in healthcare compliance, at least 4+ years
- Experience in managing cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated knowledge of key laws, regulations and industry best practice standards.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
Skills:
- High interpersonal and communication skills including ability to challenge and provide guidance to business.
- Experience in aligning potential, present and future compliance risks related to the business, including risk identification, controls & risk mitigation of potential non-compliance.
- Deep insights into ethical business decision making and very strong stakeholder-facing interactions and informal leadership abilities.
- Personal and professional maturity, able to motivate and inspire.
- Leading and influencing, also without authority, including cross-functional projects.
- Solution oriented strategic partner with a hands-on mind set.
- Ability to build alliances, bridging.
- Strong business acumen.
- Capable of managing and prioritizing multiple tasks and objectives.
- Manages well complexity and ambiguity: ability to develop and apply pragmatic solutions to complex legal, regulatory and industry best practice standards and requirements.
- Mindset of curiosity, learning agility and interest in innovative ways of doing things.
- Combines enterprise thinking and business focus.
- Strong operations, process-orientation, data analytics, or technical expertise to effectively design, develop and implement compliance and relevant business processes, controls, and workflows.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
Locations
Rome, Italy
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
What We Do
For over 240 years, Takeda’s propensity to evolve has driven the next generation of innovation, and as a future-focused organization, we’re continuing to drive forward with endurance in our steadfast pursuit to achieve the best outcomes for our patients in a rapidly changing world.
We have been preparing for this period of value creation by investing in data, digital and technology, and we’re proud of our employees and their commitment to turning groundbreaking ideas into life-changing impacts.
Since our founding in Japan, integrity and putting patients first have been at the heart of our identity, and we will emerge ready for our future as one of the most trusted and science-driven digital biopharmaceutical companies. Join a team where your innovation impacts lives.
Together, we’ll realize improved outcomes by improving data quality, enhancing launch execution and improving the patient journey. You’ll play a critical role in accelerating data collection and increasing accuracy across all parts of the business. Patients across the globe will benefit from access to treatments afforded by greater opportunities and efficiency in our research and development.
Why Work With Us
We connect to our history and Japanese heritage through everything we do to bring our purpose, values, vision, and imperatives to life. We are committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients. Being a part of Takeda means having the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than yourself.
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