Head of Global Finance Center of Excellence
Takeda · Łódź
Job Description
About the Role
The Head of Global Finance CoE leads Takeda's Global Finance Center of Excellence and shapes Finance and Procurement service delivery across the enterprise. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and based in Poland, the role sets strategy, ensures operational excellence and accelerates digital transformation across a large, globally distributed organization.
The CoE combines functional expertise, process excellence, data, digital technology and global talent to improve performance, productivity and controls. The role balances reliable service delivery with enterprise transformation, builds scalable capabilities and develops an inclusive, high-performing leadership culture.
Leadership Priorities
- Strategic leadership: Set direction and deliver enterprise outcomes with pace.
- Transformation leadership: Drive Global Finance transformation, resolving priorities, dependencies and resource conflicts across programs, including Takami.
- GBS leadership: Lead complex, multi-site operations with discipline and continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder engagement: Influence and align senior stakeholders across Corporate, Global Finance and Takeda in Poland.
- Communication and change leadership: Communicate with clarity to build alignment, commitment and momentum.
How You Will Contribute
Enterprise Finance Strategy and Leadership
- Define and execute the vision, strategy and operating model for the Global Finance CoE as a strategic capability and transformation platform.
- Align priorities with Takeda’s Finance strategy, enterprise objectives and commitment to patients.
- Provide enterprise thought leadership on the future of Finance, Procurement and global capabilities.
Global Finance Service Delivery
- Deliver high-quality, compliant, resilient and cost-effective Finance and Procurement services globally.
- Establish clear accountability for service performance, customer experience and value realization.
- Use disciplined governance, transparent KPIs and benchmarks to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement.
Finance Transformation and Operating Model Evolution
- Simplify, standardize and harmonize end-to-end Finance and Procurement processes, with clear ownership and decision rights.
- Redesign processes, roles and capabilities around enterprise outcomes while balancing business context and proximity needs.
- Execute transformation with pace and discipline while protecting business continuity.
Digital Transformation, AI and Innovation
- Set and lead an AI-first digital agenda for Finance and Procurement.
- Scale automation, analytics, digital workflows and emerging technologies against measurable business outcomes.
- Reimagine processes, operating models and user experiences rather than digitizing existing ways of working.
- Build enterprise capability in AI adoption, data literacy, product thinking and digital innovation.
- Deploy reusable horizontal capabilities, including operations excellence, process mining and transition management, in partnership with Digital and Technology.
Enterprise Productivity and Value Realization
- Deliver measurable productivity and value through process transformation, automation and operating-model optimization.
- Optimize scope, demand, capacity, skills, location and sourcing while balancing cost, risk and business proximity.
- Establish transparent value tracking and deliver sustainable commitments without compromising service, controls or critical capabilities.
Stakeholder Management and Business Partnership
- Build trusted partnerships with the Chief Financial Officer, Finance Leadership Team, Business Unit CFOs, Corporate Finance and Global Functions.
- Translate business needs into scalable capabilities and services with shared accountability for outcomes.
- Influence through insight, commercial judgement and delivery; constructively challenge demand and established practices.
- Strengthen the CoE value proposition and scale capabilities that create enterprise value.
Governance, Compliance and Risk Management
- Maintain strong governance, controls, compliance, audit readiness, data integrity and operational resilience.
- Partner with Finance, Risk and Controls leaders to strengthen assurance.
- Oversee outsourced services, third-party providers and critical dependencies.
Talent, Culture and Organizational Development
- Lead an inclusive, high-performing global organization with clear goals, rigorous accountability and a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
- Build leadership depth, succession pipelines and future-ready process, digital, data, AI, risk and business-partnering capabilities.
- Shape the organization and workforce with clarity and respect, including through restructuring when required.
- Create followership across cultures through purpose, transparency, empowerment and caring leadership.
Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience across Finance, GBS, Global Capability Centers, Shared Services or Finance and Procurement transformation.
- Proven success leading large, global, multi-site and multicultural organizations in a complex matrix.
- Demonstrated experience designing and evolving global capability and service-delivery models.
- Strong record of enterprise process, digital and workforce transformation, including scaled automation, analytics and AI.
- Experience operating in highly regulated environments with strong governance and control expectations.
- Executive credibility and experience managing complex portfolios, budgets, third parties and performance commitments.
Leadership Capabilities
- Enterprise mindset with strong financial and commercial acumen.
- Strategic thinker who converts vision into disciplined execution.
- Decisive and resilient change leader who challenges established approaches and drives follow-through.
- Outstanding communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, complexity and competing priorities.
- Strong intercultural leadership and a record of building inclusive, high-performing global teams and successors.
- Authentic, transparent and purpose-driven leadership aligned with Takeda values.
Education and Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA, relevant Master’s degree or professional qualification preferred.
- Fluent English required.
Locations
Lodz, PolandBase Salary Range:
zł0.00 - zł0.00
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.
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