Associate Director, Global Program Management

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a (Title) in our Cambridge office.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global 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.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

OBJECTIVES:

Demonstrates excellence in project management in support of one or more drug development programs across all phases of development. Serves as a partner for the Global Project Leader in developing the asset strategy and ensuring efficient execution of tactical plans by the Global Product Team (GPT).

• Core responsibilities include:
  • Providing strategic direction and translating the integrated GPT asset 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;
  • Interfacing with management and influencing asset-level decision-making
  • Proactive management and mitigation of development risks, and supporting appropriate communication and interface with enterprise-level governance.
  • Maintaining up-to-date and accurate key program information in PM business systems and ensuring quality program timelines, team data, and required tools are updated as appropriate.
  • Play a key role in ensuring team effectiveness, partnering with GPL and CoOP to administer team health checks to generate insights, plan & execute appropriate follow-up actions.
  • Accountable for asset-level financial management, budget, forecasting, and monitoring of variance.
• Considered a department wide PM SME, driving cross-divisional alignment and continuous improvement activities.
• Participates in innovative departmental process improvement initiatives with significant organizational impact and manages, as needed, non-project responsibilities, which can include process and system optimizations.                         

• Partners with GPL to lead GPT or Joint Development Team (for partnered Alliance programs) to develop and maintain the asset strategy and corresponding operational development plans in alignment with the ONEOncology strategy, lifecycle management requirements, and evidence generation/publication needs.
• Drives delivery of critical path activities to progress asset development. Identifies ways to optimize program execution without compromise to patients or compliance.
• Ensures asset strategy and integrated development plan have a patient-centric focus, incorporates innovative approaches that are meaningful to patients, HCPs, regulators & payers, and adhere to the highest standards of operational excellence in drug development and life cycle management. Serves as facilitator and driver of GPT to ensure progress of asset development. This includes establishing meeting agendas in partnership with GPL and GPT members, facilitating effective team discussions, driving to clear and timely team actions and decisions, holding team members accountable for action follow-through.  Ensures team eff