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About the Role
As the Data Excellence Manager, you will enable Takeda Canada’s data-driven decisions by ensuring critical local data is trusted, usable, and aligned with enterprise standards. You will strengthen the foundation for analytics, reporting, and data products by improving data quality, stewardship, and interoperability across the LOC. You will be a hands-on leader, the role helps translate data into scalable business value for Canada.
Responsibilities
- Serve as strategic business partner for data excellence, collaborating with cross-functional partners to assess, prioritize, and implement new data use cases.
- Coordinate with vendors and cross-functional partners to ensure data sourcing meets LOC needs.
- Apply the LOC’s shared requirements-discovery method to confirm the underlying problem before committing to a data solution.
- Own and execute the LOC data roadmap, assessing data and insight needs, maintaining a prioritized backlog, and executing against it.
- Ensure data standards and integrations support campaign execution, monitoring, and performance measurement.
- Lead data stewardship, governance, and documentation, performing hands-on stewardship activities and leading Master Data Management implementation.
- Apply and maintain global data standards locally, aligning field names/values and documenting exceptions.
- Create and maintain data dictionaries, lineage notes, business rules, and usage guidance.
- Drive data quality monitoring and remediation, operating recurring data quality checks and identifying root causes.
- Execute data integration, ingestion, and customer data flow into CDP, onboarding data sources and enabling downstream flow.
- Ensure customer data is unified, quality-checked, and continuously flowing to support activation, analytics, and business execution.
- Partner with CRM/CXF Manager on TakedaConnect migration into CXF, ensuring continuity of customer journey capabilities.
- Partner with ICC/GCM delivery teams to ensure scalable, standardized delivery.
- Serve as a hands-on data ambassador, raising data fluency and governance capabilities through practical enablement.
- Build trust through transparency by keeping stakeholders informed on data status, roadmap progress, and known limitations.
Requirements
- University degree in a relevant field such as data management, information systems, computer science, analytics, business, or a related discipline.
- 5-7 years of experience in data management, data governance, data integration, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrates a growth mindset, with openness to feedback, continuous learning, and adapting quickly in a changing business and technology environment.
- Hands-on experience with regulated data domains (e.g., HCP/HCO, PSP, consented customer data, financial data) in a pharmaceutical or regulated industry context.
- Working knowledge of SQL, data platforms (e.g., Databricks), BI tools (e.g., Power BI), ETL processes, and data modelling.
- Strong understanding of Master Data Management, data quality frameworks, and data governance principles.
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical data ecosystems, compliance, privacy, and audit requirements.
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and backlog management.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical language and drive cross-functional alignment.
- Detail-oriented and quality-driven — takes pride in ensuring data is accurate, well-documented, and fit for purpose.
- Proactively identifies and resolves data issues before they impact downstream products and decisions.
- Bridge technical data work with business context — communicates data governance concepts in language stakeholders understand and value.
Skills
- SQL
- Data platforms (e.g., Databricks)
- BI tools (e.g., Power BI)
- ETL processes
- Data modelling
- Master Data Management
- Data quality frameworks
- Data governance principles
- Agile delivery methodologies
- Backlog management
- Communication skills
Location
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- Employee
- Regular
- Full time
Experience Level
- 5-7 years of experience
Education Level
- University degree in a relevant field such as data management, information systems, computer science, analytics, business, or a related discipline.
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000.00 - $158,400.00
Benefits
- short-term and/or long-term incentives
- subsidies for fitness and internet
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- participation in the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP); company match into a Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan (DPSP) (if eligible)
- short-term and long-term disability coverage
- annual vacation entitlement; additional paid time off and company holidays
- a tuition reimbursement program
- a variety of well-being benefits
About the Company
- Takeda Canada encourages applications from all qualified candidates.
Equal Opportunity
- In accordance with our accommodation policies and applicable provincial accessibility legislation, please advise us if you need accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process. Any information you provide relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.