Project Management Lead, Associate Director, Global Legal, E&C Ops

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Job Description

About the role:

The Project Management Lead, Associate Director within Global Legal, Ethics & Compliance Operations (GLEC Ops) is responsible for leading cross‑functional delivery and program management across strategic GLEC initiatives, process transformation efforts, and enterprise‑driven programs. This role provides end‑to‑end oversight to ensure disciplined execution through strong governance, proactive risk management, and consistent delivery standards. By driving alignment across stakeholders and functions, the role ensures initiatives are executed efficiently and result in clear, measurable business benefits that support organizational and compliance objectives.

How you will contribute:

- Own PMO execution for assigned programs.

- Set up and manage program governance structures, plans, RAID logs, charters, and status routines.

- Build integrated workplans, stakeholder maps, resourcing strategies, and decision frameworks.

- Manage cross-functional dependencies with DD&T, Finance, Procurement, and Legal and E&C SMEs.

- Deliver accurate portfolio reporting including risks, decisions, resource needs, and financial tracking.

- Apply consistent PMO methodologies across initiatives.

- Partner with Change Management and Learning & Development to integrate communications, training, and adoption plans.

- Track and communicate value realization metrics and continuous improvement opportunities.

- Establish and maintain tracking for key functional obligations, controls, and remediation actions; surface trends, decisions, and escalations

- Drive high-quality executive reporting with clear synthesis and recommended actions.

- Partner with Operations Leadership team to ensure alignment with annual plans and multi-year roadmaps.

 - Establish and update the business case(s) for the strategic initiatives and assess their impact on the forecasted business outcomes, applying best-practice financial and business planning practices.

- Identify, manage, and appropriately escalate project risks and decisions. Work with project teams to analyze risks and develop options and recommendations to resolve them.

Leadership

- Able to rapidly resolve conflicts while ensuring buy-in from stakeholders.

- Able to both detect and rapidly adapt to changes in the business and operating environment.

- Plan the critical path and hold team members accountable for their activities.

- Able to coach project teams to successfully execute projects through defined, yet flexible project lifecycle phases and governance processes.

Decision-making and Autonomy

- Ability to drive strategic decision-making.

- Drives consensus on a path forward when there are ambiguous or conflicting viewpoints.

- Performs methodical analysis to underpin all recommendations; able to explain and justify rationale.

- Provide direction on when projects should move forward, when to escalate issues, and when to close out open actions.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

- 8 years in PMO, legal operations, global/enterprise program management in complex, matrixed environments.

- Bachelor’s degree required

- PMP/Agile/Lean certification preferred.

- Strong ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and navigate complex stakeholder environments.

- Strong executive communication, issue resolution, and multi-workstream coordination.

- Outstanding communication skills including the ability to interact with all levels of management, including senior leaders. Must be able to tailor communications to deliver the same content to vastly different audiences.

Uses independent judgment to identify, plan, prioritize, and organize diversified workload as required.

Must be excellent with PowerPoint and able to both perform and consume analysis with Excel. Experience with enterprise PPM software a plus.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

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