Director, Innovation & Transformation Lead

About Astellas:

At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.

We pursue innovative science, focussing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under-served disease areas and in life-threatening or life-limiting diseases and conditions

We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage.

Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.

We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real-world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their care-givers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes.

Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.

About this job:

The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction to plan and initiate innovative and transformative activity cross-functionally as digital transformation (DX) and to oversee the activities together with R&D Partner (RDP) Teams for Global Value Chain business functions including Research, Medical & Development, Pharmaceutical Technology, and others.

This position will be accountable for Information Systems (IS) initiated activities which innovate and transform Astellas business and will work with other RDP functions and IS groups to deliver solutions for DX to accelerate Astellas’ global business and to maximize the value of data and information across the organization.

Amongst the main responsibilities for this role are the following:

• Relationship Establishment
• Partner with Business Leaders and IS management to ensure alignment between business and IS strategy and goals including in collaboration with Relationship Management (RM) Team in RDP.
• Formulate and manage a collaborative team with relevant business and IS functions to initiate cross-functional, innovative, and transformative activity as co-creation of value together with Programs & Projects (PP) Team in RDP.
• Strategy
• Examines the global Astellas strategy and forecasts the effects of the use of IT/Digital technology and systems to the business processes.
• Prioritizes and identifies cross-functionally innovative and transformative IT/Digital initiatives for future Astellas business as strategic roadmap collaborating with DT Group
• Portfolio and Program Management
• Accountable for managing the roadmap and for support RM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Teams to integrate the initiatives in the entire IT portfolios for Global Value Chain business functions.
• Accountable for delivery of innovative and transformative solutions as digital transformation

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Significant experience in a similar role.
• Ideally at least 5-7 years’ experience in an IT Department
• extensive experience in a Pharmaceutical (R&D) environment
• good experience in project management with extensive knowledge applying      project management or system development management methodologies
• Experience of system development/implementation with Digital Technology.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements concerning GxP, JSOX, GAMP5 and ER/ES.

Additional information:

• Currently this position has the flexibility to work from home and in the office.
• This position is based in Leiden The Netherlands.
• Full time.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.