Takeda Recognized with the ISPE Company of the Year Award for Outstanding Leadership and Support

ISPE awarded Takeda the 2024 Company of the Year Award for its outstanding leadership and support for ISPE’s mission and community. Over the past five years, Takeda has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to ISPE with its employees actively shaping ISPE’s committees, driving impactful conferences, and championing critical initiatives.

Takeda's mission—"better health for a brighter future"—perfectly complements ISPE’s goal of advancing global pharmaceutical knowledge through collaboration and innovation. By embedding their expertise into ISPE’s top priorities and fostering connections with regulators, industry leaders, and service providers, Takeda has played an instrumental role in driving progress across the pharmaceutical landscape.

This award celebrates Takeda’s dedication to making a meaningful impact and strengthening the bonds that propel our industry forward. Congratulations to Takeda for this well-deserved recognition!

This recognition means that our efforts in the pharmaceutical industry are seen and appreciated by our peers and ISPE. It is an honor for us to be acknowledged for our contributions to the industry.

Takeda’s Global Manufacturing and Supply Officer Thomas Wozniewski who is a member of the Takeda Executive Team

Takeda is one of ISPE’s most active supporters on a global scale. Takeda has provided longstanding membership participation in ISPE. The team has 160 active members spanning fourteen ISPE Affiliates and Chapters globally, including the ISPE Australasia Affiliate, ISPE Belgium Affiliate, ISPE Boston Chapter, ISPE Carolina-South Atlantic Chapter, ISPE Germany/Austria/Switzerland (D/A/CH) Affiliate, ISPE Great Lakes Chapter, ISPE Ireland Affiliate, ISPE Iberia Affiliate, ISPE Italy Affiliate, ISPE Japan Affiliate, ISPE Los Angeles Chapter, ISPE Midwest Chapter, ISPE San Francisco Chapter, and ISPE Singapore Affiliate.

Takeda employees have also held ISPE Affiliate and Chapter leadership positions. For example, Gunter Baumgartner, SVP Head of Global Engineering with Takeda, currently serves as the President of the ISPE D/A/CH Affiliate and Lindsay Daniel, Director, Product Operations Strategy and Business Lead with Takeda, currently serves as the Vice President of the ISPE Boston Chapter.

Takeda’s longstanding relationship with the ISPE is based on individual contributions from employees in conference program committees, ISPE Affiliate committees, and ISPE Communities of Practice (CoPs). We host ISPE meetings, provide site tours, and share best practices via benchmarks. To put it briefly, the close collaboration with our peers and ISPE is a significant help in supporting our growth.

Gunter Baumgartner

Takeda employees have delivered more than forty expert presentations and eight keynote addresses at ISPE conferences, including the 2019 ISPE Europe Annual Conference, the 2022 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, the 2023 ISPE Europe Annual Conference, the 2023 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, and the 2024 ISPE Europe Annual Conference. The team has also hosted key programs, such as hackathons and expert panel discussions, and hosted the FOYA Judging Panel in 2023 as well as 2024. Additionally, Takeda has hosted facility tours at their Vienna, Austria, and Los Angeles, California, USA sites.

The company’s ISPE members have also provided participation and support for the ISPE Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program as judges and winners. (Takeda judges have recused themselves from judging any Takeda submissions to ensure a fair and balanced judging process.) Takeda hosted the FOYA Judging Panel in 2023 and 2024. On the recognition front, Takeda has been honored by ISPE as a FOYA category winner ten times – a first in ISPE’s history. Takeda also broke another record as the first company in ISPE’s history to receive FOYA recognition six times in four consecutive years.

Takeda’s FOYA recognition includes:

• 2024: Takeda Austria GmbH’s beePFS - Prefilled Syringe Filling project received FOYA category winner recognition for Operations – Facility Fit
• 2023: Takeda SA’s Glassia Manufacturing Building project received FOYA Social Impact category winner recognition
• 2022: Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG’s Project TaSiVa was a Pharma 4.0™ category winner as well as the 2022 FOYA Overall winner
• 2022: Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG’s Alofisel Global Program project was a FOYA Supply Chain category winner
• 2021: Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG’s NINLARO The Grange Castle project received FOYA Facility Integration recognition
• 2021: Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG’s Packaging Building and Automatic Line Clearance project received FOYA Process Intelligence and Innovation category recognition
• 2019: Takeda (formerly Shire) received an Honorable Mention for its Georgia Manufacturing Facility project
• 2018: Takeda (formerly Shire) received the FOYA category winner for Facility Integration and overall winner for their project LAMP (Los Angeles Master Plan)
• 2018: Takeda (formerly Shire) received the FOYA category winner for Operational Excellence for their project Shire Los Angeles QC Lab
• 2011: Takeda (formerly Shire HGT) received an Honorable Mention for its Project Atlas, Building 400 Facility

Takeda leverages ISPE resources in a variety of ways: “ISPE provides a huge network of industry peers, suppliers, and service companies through conferences and events. The guidance documents provided by ISPE working groups are also well recognized by authorities and used by all pharma companies. ISPE also supports training programs for our employees, which is a great resource for their development and also provides networking opportunities,” shared the Takeda representative.

By joining conferences, discussion forums, and CoPs, companies can learn from best practices and improve their processes and innovation. Our main advice is to contribute and be part of the network.

Thomas Wozniewski

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