Senior Manager, Global Program Management

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Job Description

SUMMARY OF ROLE:

This position provides global program management and matrixed leadership to global, cross-functional teams to drive complex, post-market programs (i.e., multi-region/indications and/or alliance partners). GPMs drive critical activities required to fulfill Takeda’s commitment to patients for the life of our products, including but not limited to

·        lifecycle management programs

·        post-marketing commitments to health authorities

·        post-marketing safety studies

·        overall program benefit/risk assessment, and

development and execution of geographic expansion strategies in collaboration with global, regional and local colleagues 

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Product-related:

Strategic Direction

• Works closely with the Global Program Leader (GPL) and other cross-functional teams to ensure that scientific & commercial strategies, post-marketing commitments, lifecycle management (LCM) requirements, and evidence generation/publication needs are incorporated into the product strategy and project plan
• Drives clarity with Global Product Team (GPT) and other relevant stakeholders to communicate product strategic imperatives to ensure appropriate prioritization

Program Execution

• Provides strategic direction and translates the cross-functional, integrated GPT strategy into an efficiently executable plan; predicting and planning solutions to achieve program goals and objectives, driving clarity and removing barriers to ensure team success
• Identifies ways to optimize program execution without compromise to patients or compliance.
• Accountable to maintain the project plan, ensuring delivery of critical path activities to progress product development
• Proactively identifies resource requirements necessary to progress product development in alignment with MPD business objectives
• Plays a key role in ensuring team effectiveness, partnering with GPL and Center of Operational Performance (CoOP) to administer team health checks to generate insights, plan & execute appropriate follow-up actions
• Partners with the GPL to provide financial oversight of the program including global, cross-divisional budgets. Includes consolidation, vetting and prioritization of GPT spending to deliver critical path activities

Risk Management

• Along with the GPL, co-leads the GPT project risk management process in the team and generates the cross-functional, cross-divisional project risk register for assigned products
• Proactively addresses and removes barriers to program progress, keeping leadership informed of critical considerations (e.g., resources, performance)
• Proactively identifies potential issues or obstacles and achieves resolution or plans contingencies. Follow issues through to resolution ensuring that all key stakeholders are informed of outcomes and program implications
• Provides clarity and direction in urgent or unexpected situations. Partners with GPL to resolve complex issues & competing priorities that may impact goal achievement, creates mitigation plans and drives to resolution

Communication and Reporting

• Manages scheduled/ad-hoc program reporting, citing p