Insights and Capability Lead

Job Title

Insights and Capability Lead

Company

Astellas Pharma

About Astellas

At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.

Description

Insights and Capability Lead

At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed. We pursue innovative science, focussing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under‑served disease areas and in life‑threatening or life‑limiting diseases and conditions. We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage. Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient‑centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division. We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real‑world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their care‑givers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes. Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.

The Opportunity

As an Insights & Capability Lead, you will play a critical role in enabling global procurement teams to deliver maximum value to the business. This high‑impact role combines procurement expertise, data‑driven insights, policy stewardship, and agile capability building to ensure the function remains future‑fit and outcome‑driven. Working as part of the Procurement Foundations team, you will collaborate closely with global category teams, the Source‑to‑Pay (S2P) Pod in Global Business Solutions (GBS), and other enterprise partners. Your responsibilities will span across data analysis, functional capability uplift, agile ways of working, and procurement governance to support enterprise‑wide priorities including cost, cash, carbon, and innovation.

Hybrid Working

At Astellas we recognize that our employees enjoy having balance between their professional and home lives. We are proud of our hybrid approach which empowers you to have flexibility on whether to work from home or in the office.

Key Activities for This Role

• Generate actionable insights by interpreting procurement and external market data to challenge and support category strategy execution.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of procurement policies and governance frameworks in collaboration with GBS and other stakeholders.
• Partner with category teams to track OKRs and maturity of strategies, offering data‑driven recommendations that align with enterprise goals.
• Design and deliver targeted capability‑building programs, including the Astellas Procurement Academy, to strengthen functional skills and leadership behaviours.
• Embed agile methodologies across the function through training, coaching, and facilitation of agile routines (e.g., stand‑ups, retrospectives, planning).

Essential Knowledge & Experience

Preferred Qualifications

Qualifications

Additional Information

Global Capability Centre Overview

Astellas’ Global Capability Centres – Overview : Astellas’ Global Capability Centre’s (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co‑locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico. The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands. Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company’s strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior Level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Other

Industry

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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