**Job Description**:Takeda is unwavering in our commitment to patients. With the patient at the center of everything we do, we continue to innovate and drive changes that will better their lives:were looking for like:minded professionals to join us.Takeda is the number one pharmaceutical company in Japan and a global industry leader we are united by our four priorities (Patients, Trust, Reputation, and Business) and our shared values ofTakeda:ism:Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance. Takeda:ism is more than just a word. Its a belief and a mindset which guides our decisions, behaviors, and interactions. Its how we strive to work and live, every day.Job descriptionAre you looking for a patient:focused innovation:driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Senior Scientist Human Genetics at our Shonan, Japan site.Takeda is unwavering in our commitment to patients. With the patient at the center of everything we do, we continue to innovate and drive changes that will better their lives. Today, we are the number one pharmaceutical company in Japan and a global industry leader, with approximately 50,000 employees around the world. We are united by our four priorities (patient, trust, reputation and business) and Takeda:ism (Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance), and strive towards better health and a brighter future for people worldwide.At Takeda, we empower our people to realize their potential through life:changing work. Certified as aGlobal 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.For this role, we are seeking a highly collaborative individual with deep knowledge in human genetics, who will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. As a Principal Scientist, Human Genetics in the Genetics and Systems Biology group, you will be empowered to serve on project teams at all stages of drug discovery and development.You will lead human genetics efforts using public and proprietary data. You will have the opportunity to contribute to external collaborations linking genetic data to longitudinal phenotypic data from diverse populations, and you will closely work with colleagues in various functions across the organization to generate impactful insights from human Omics data to advance the pipeline in Neuroscience, Gastro:intestinal diseases, Rare diseases and Plasma:derived therapies.**Responsibilities**:Establish an influential and collaborative role within biology and disease:oriented project teams by contributing to the design, analysis and interpretation of genetic studies to inform target validation, pre:clinical safety, population stratification, clinical safety.Work with a community of human geneticists to implement a human genetics roadmap and strategy and enhance integrative analytic pipelinesEstablish and lead external collaborations to implement emerging technologies and/or interrogate relevant biomedical datasets with in:depth genetic and health informationPrepare and present comprehensive technical or project reports to internal and external audiencesEducation and experiencePhD with 5+ years of experience in human genetics research.Solid experience with population genetics (GWAS/eQTL/pQTL analyses, fine:mapping and colocalization, WES/WGS sequencing data analyses, rare variants statistical analyses, mendelian randomization) or rare disease genetics (genotype:ph
