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Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Senior Manager, Clinical Data Ingestion in our Cambridge, MA office.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

OBJECTIVES:

The Senior Manager, Clinical Data Ingestion is responsible foringesting, validating, and operationalizing clinical data feedsinto clinical data review platforms (e.g.,Veeva CDB,Elluminate,JReview) to enable efficient, high-quality clinical data review. This role focuses on strong ingestion principles, building and scalingreusable ingestion frameworks, and establishingmonitoring and controlsfor vendor transfers and enterprise sources (e.g.,EDC,CTMS) as well as managingdownstream exportsto enable analytics and programming teams.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ingest clinical data fromEDC/CTMS and vendors(e.g., labs, eCOA, imaging, safety) intoVeeva CDB/Elluminate/JReviewper specifications and refresh cadence.

• Execute and support file/API loads, includingmapping, transformations, referential integrity, and controlled reprocessing.

• Apply ingestion best practices:standardization, automated QC/validation, reconciliation, auditability/lineage, and incremental loads.

• Build and maintain areusable ingestion frameworkand standards (templates, metadata-driven mappings, reusable QC rules, runbooks) to accelerate onboarding and improve consistency.

• Operate transfer monitoring and ingestion operations:expected vs received, timeliness/completeness checks, alerting/escalation, scheduling/re-runs, defect triage, and KPI/SLA tracking.

• Ensure datasets arereview-readyand managedownstream exportsto internal consumers with clear data contracts and refresh expectations.

• Partner with vendors and stakeholders to define/maintaintransfer specs and acceptance criteria; provide SME troubleshooting and document fixes for repeatable operations.

• Follow controlled documentation and change practices for regulated clinical processes, maintainingvalidation/traceability evidenceand audit-ready records as required.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Education:

• BS/BA (or equivalent) plus 7+ years in data ingestion/integration. ETL/ELT operations, or clinical data pipeline support, ideally supporting clinical data review and recurring study/vendor transfers.

Technical Competencies

• Preferred platform exposure: Experience ingesting data into Veeva CDB, Elluminate, and/or JReview (or comparable clinical data review systems).

• Clinical data ingestion principles:Strong understanding of end-to-end ingestion concepts includingdata contracts/specifications, refresh cadence, incremental vs full loads, controlled reprocessing, reconciliation, and traceable lineage.

• Data quality & review readiness:Ability to design/executeautomated QC/validation checks, completeness/timeliness verification, and reconciliation routines to ensure datasets arereview-ready.

• Data formats & interfaces:Hands-on experience withCSV, JSON, XMLandfile-based and/or API-basedintegrations; familiarity with secure transfer patterns (e.g., SFTP/managed file transfer concepts).

• Querying & scripting:StrongSQLskills; working proficiency inPython(preferred) or similar scripting to automate ingestion, QC, parsing, and operational tasks.

• Frameworks & reusability:Demonstrated ability to build or extendreusable ingestion components(metadata-driven mappings, templates, reusable QC rules, standard runbooks).

• Monitoring & operations:Experience building/using monitoring for transfers and pipelines (e.g.,expected vs received, timeliness/completeness checks, alerting, incident triage, reruns, KPI/SLA reporting).

Domain / Business Competencies

• Source system familiarity:Working knowledge of common clinical sources such asEDC, CTMS, and vendor domains (e.g., labs, eCOA/ePRO, imaging, safety) and how those feeds typically arrive and change over time.

• Downstream enablement:Understanding of downstream consumption needs (data review workflows, exports to CDM/analytics/programming) and ability to support stable, well-documented exports.

Compliance & Documentation

• Controlled processes mindset:Strong documentation discipline (specs, mappings, runbooks, issue logs) and comfort operating incontrolled/regulatedenvironments.

• Preferred:Exposure toGxP/CSV expectations, change control, and maintaining audit-ready operational evidence (as applicable to the organization/process).

Working Style:

• Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management (vendors, CDM, data review, IT, analytics/programming.

• Detail-oriented, highly organized, Strong collaboration and communication; organized, self-directed, proactive problem-solver and able to manage recurring operational workloads while driving issues to closure and preventing recurrence

This position is currently classified as " remote" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

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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.The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

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