Global Medical Program Manager

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Job Description

About the role:

At Takeda, we are a forward-looking, world-class R&D organization that unlocks innovation and delivers transformative therapies to patients. By focusing R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas and other targeted investments, we push the boundaries of what is possible in order to bring life-changing therapies to patients worldwide.

Join Takeda as a Global Medical Program Manager where you will provide project management and leadership skills to the Medical Strategy Teams (MST) in the successful management of multiple programs within a therapeutic area for Global Medical Affairs (GMA).  This will include leadership of MSTs and/or other program teams, in strategic direction and translating program strategy into an efficiently executable plan; predicting and planning solutions to achieve successful operational execution; driving the team to achieve forecast accuracy and effective risk management.

You will also partner closely with the Global Medical Unit Head (GMUH) and medical cross-functional teams, as well as relevant global, regional and local Medical Affairs, Commercial and R&D functions, as required, to ensure that the medical and functional strategy is integrated into an operational plan.  Serve as a partner to GMA functional team members to manage program priorities, identify resource needs; initiate key strategic planning activities; report program progress; oversee program budget and execute communication.

As part of the Global Medical Program Management team, you will report to the Head of Medical Program Management.

How you will contribute:

• Leads the program operational planning efforts of MSTs, in maintaining oversight for operational plans, execution strategies & critical path for the asset.

• Partners with program medical leads in creation of strategies and supports the MST in presenting these strategies to key stakeholders and decision makers. Adjusts program strategy and priorities in response to changes in strategic direction.

• Establishes, communicates and executes plans with stakeholders and teams to achieve program goals.

• Manages the planning, operational and reporting of the MST (including but not limited to: meeting management, meeting facilitation, development of materials with contributors, capture and follow up of action items and deliverables, distribution of minutes and maintenance of relevant site pages (or equivalent))

• Facilitate the MST and/or other group meetings and ensure agendas are appropriate to enable discussions and decisions within the team.

• Proactively identifies program hindrance and derailers, plans for mitigation and follows through to resolution, ensuring that MST arrives at an aligned conclusion or recommendation.

• Drives financial planning exercise for programs and provides oversight for program budget.  Includes consolidation, vetting and prioritization of program spending and vendors, risks and opportunities, in partnership with the program medical leads and MST team.

• Responsible for coordinating governance approvals for the key program deliverables and holds self and team members accountable to deliver on the agreed upon program objectives

• Addresses and resolves program challenges, keeping relevant stakeholders informed of critical considerations (e.g., resources, performance concerns).  Provides clarity and direction in urgent or unexpected situations.

• Leads the program risk management process in the team and generates the cross-functional program risk register for assigned MSTs.  Ensure that the risks identified ar