At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead data excellence initiatives and collaborate with teams to enhance data quality and usability.
- Company: Join Takeda, a global leader in pharmaceuticals dedicated to patient care.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, health benefits, tuition reimbursement, and flexible work options.
- Other info: Be part of a mission-driven culture that values integrity and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by transforming data into valuable insights for healthcare.
- Qualifications: 5-7 years in data management; strong SQL and data governance skills required.
The predicted salary is between 123750 - 151250 $ per year.
Location: Toronto, Canada
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, helping translate data into scalable business value for Canada.
How will you contribute:
- Serve as a strategic business partner for data excellence.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners (commercial, medical, access, PSP) and IBU to assess, prioritize, and implement new data use cases that enable value realization.
- Coordinate with vendors and cross-functional partners to ensure data sourcing meets LOC needs.
- Own and execute the LOC data roadmap.
- Continuously assess the state of data and insight needs in Canada, maintain a prioritized backlog of data tasks (integrations, quality fixes, new data sources), execute against it, and provide transparent progress updates to stakeholders.
- Ensure data standards and integrations support campaign execution, monitoring, and performance measurement aligned with global and IBU frameworks.
- Lead data stewardship, governance, and documentation.
- Perform hands-on stewardship activities: data owner/steward touchpoints, dataset reviews, and issue triage.
- Drive data quality monitoring and remediation.
- Execute data integration, ingestion, and always-on customer data flow into CDP.
- Partner with the CRM/CXF Manager on TakedaConnect migration into CXF, ensuring continuity of customer journey capabilities.
- Raise data fluency and governance capabilities across the LOC through practical enablement: training sessions, office hours, playbooks, and worked examples.
What you bring to Takeda:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Build trust through transparency: keeps stakeholders informed on data status, roadmap progress, and known limitations.
Base Salary Range: $115,000.00 - $158,400.00
Benefit Eligibility:
- 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
Company Culture: Takeda is an industry-leading, global pharmaceutical company with an unwavering dedication to putting patients at the center of everything we do. We live our values of Takeda-ism – Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance – and are united by our mission to strive towards Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine.
Equal Opportunity: Takeda is an equal opportunity employer.
Data Excellence Manager in Toronto employer: CAN - 3032 Takeda Canada Inc.
At Takeda Canada, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that champions data excellence and fosters a collaborative work culture in the vibrant city of Toronto. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous learning opportunities and a supportive environment that encourages innovation and teamwork. Join us to make a meaningful impact while enjoying competitive benefits and a strong focus on work-life balance.
Contact Details:
CAN - 3032 Takeda Canada Inc. Recruitment Team
