About the role:
Own end-to-end delivery for AI & Data across PDT & GSQ DD&T;, so that what the function promises, it reliably delivers — on time, at quality, and at scale. This is a dual mandate: lead the entire Data delivery organization as its functional head, and own delivery orchestration across all of AI & Data, turning a workforce of internal teams, external partners, and agentic capacity — several hundred solid and spread across multiple locations — into a single, well-oiled engine serving PDT and GSQ. You are not required to be a data specialist; you are the person who makes a large, complex, multi-vendor organization perform as one, setting the standard, holding the line on commitments, and building a delivery reputation the business trusts. You operate agentically by default, where agents and AI-amplified ways of working are how execution time is collapsed and unit cost driven down, within Good Practice (GxP) compliance and an AI system development life cycle compliant approach. This role sets the delivery bar for the function and contributes directly to Takeda's mission.





How you will contribute:
- Own the full delivery lifecycle across AI & Data for PDT and GSQ, from commitment to production, as the single point of accountability that what is promised is delivered on time, at quality, and at the agreed cost.
- Run planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk, and escalation as one connected system rather than a collection of disconnected projects, so that interdependent workstreams move together and no team is blocked by an unmanaged hand-off.
- Lead all Data delivery work as functional head — internal teams and external partners across multiple locations — in tight alignment with the Head of Data Strategy & Standards, who owns the architecture and standards that delivery executes to and holds the line on.
- Treat every commitment as a promise, making scope, trade-offs, and timelines explicit and ensuring a deferred item is a governed decision w

📌 Head of Delivery (Bengaluru)
🏢 Takeda Pharmaceutical
📍 Bengaluru