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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Quality Strategy & Innovation - **Company:** Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited - **Location:** Social Circle, GA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $154,400.0 - $242,550.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Data Analytics - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=16231f93ef9caeac ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 8+ years of relevant experience. * Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or biologics manufacturing environments. * Strong knowledge of cGMP principles and pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. * Proven experience leading or supporting transformation, strategy deployment, or continuous improvement in Quality, Operations, or Business Excellence. * Demonstrated experience leading transformation or continuous improvement initiatives, understanding of lean operations * Experience working with digital, data-driven, or improvement-focused initiatives is an advantage. ## Description The Quality Strategy & Innovation (QSI) role leads the site Quality transformation agenda and helps ensure alignment across site, regional, and global Quality priorities. As a strategic partner to the Site Quality Head, this role focuses on transformation, capability building, and value creation to strengthen Quality performance, operational efficiency, and compliance., * Translate global and site Quality strategy into clear, actionable plans for the site. * Lead the Quality transformation roadmap and support prioritization of the improvement portfolio including resource alignment. * Partner with Business Excellence and cross-functional teams to drive execution and track progress. * Lead site-wide Quality transformation and continuous improvement initiatives. * Use data, digital tools, and innovative approaches to improve ways of working and results. * Identify capability gaps and help define future-ready Quality capabilities. * Support deployment of the Agile Operating System and digital transformation initiatives. * Champion a strong Quality culture and a learning mindset across the organization. * Act as a change agent to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working. * Collaborate with the Site Leadership Team, Quality Leadership Team, Operations, Business Excellence, and DD&T. * Represent Quality in site transformation, innovation, and strategic initiatives. * Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to site, regional, and global stakeholders. * Support quality budget planning, oversight and resource planning to transformation priorities and drive financial discipline. * Help develop the Quality talent strategy and capability-building agenda. * Support development of Quality talent strategy and capability-building program., At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may: * 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. ## Related Videos - [ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1655-shapeshift-reinventing-agile-for-a-b2b-saas-scale-up) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [The user in the eye of the Cargo1492 storm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/96-the-user-in-the-eye-of-the-cargo1492-storm) - [How Data is Shaping our Games](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/176-how-data-is-shaping-our-games) - [From Punch Cards to AI-assisted Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/611-from-punch-cards-to-ai-assisted-development) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production)