GML Portfolio Lead

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Job Description

Reporting to the Head of Digital Delivery and Performance, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling resources and processes to achieve project and program objectives within scope, time, quality, and budget constraints. This role ensures alignment with strategic business goals and contributes to the successful delivery of technical solutions. In addition, this role actively works on building and maintaining the project portfolio of DD&T Global Manufacturing and Labs.
As part of the Digital Delivery and Performance organization you will support driving project accountability across local and global project teams and ensure governance and best practices are implemented accordingly.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Project Management
• Lead and manage the scope, schedule, cost, and quality of programs and projects to ensure alignment with business objectives
• Communicate with key stakeholders on status, risks, and accomplishments to ensure successful delivery
• Partner with customers, product/platform owners, and Technology Business Partners to identify technology services that meet strategic needs
• Provide overall strategy, planning, and management guidance for project teams, globally and in manufacturing sites
• Provide transparency of resource needs, manage inter-dependencies, facilitate escalations, and communicate impacts
• Mentor and support more junior PMs, strengthen Takeda’s project delivery ability
• Bring individuals with different technical backgrounds and priorities together and moderate conversation to drive decision/outcomes
Portfolio Management
• Work with sites and global delivery organization on road maps
• Create transparency and dissolve silos around projects to ensure alignment on resource and schedule throughout DD&T Global Manufacturing and Labs
• Build annual portfolio based on individual road maps and budget
• Create commitment for portfolio delivery with stakeholders
• Monitor and guide portfolio execution, keep sponsors and stakeholders informed accordingly
Governance
• Ensure program and project teams understand and comply with applicable governance policies and processes
• Connect and interact with other organizations in Takeda that are driving project governance to create alignment and transparency
• Challenge local and global governance processes where needed to enable efficient delivery across the organization

Performance
• Monitor and rationalize programs and projects to ensure maximum value is delivered
• Support monitoring of global key performance indicators and use this information to guide local and global roadmap decisions

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• Project Management Certifications (PMP, Prince 2, Agile, etc)
• 10+ years relevant experience leading highly visible, complex IT programs/projects including management of full lifecycle implementations
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to handle issues that occur during project completion
• Excellent organization, budget, and time management skills to keep projects on track and within budget
• Excellent oral and written English communications skills, business acumen, problem solving, and analytical skills to communicate ideas and data in a persuasive and appropriate manner
• Extensive experience formulating, organizing, and monitoring inter-connected projects
• Extensive experience partnering with business area leaders to plan and deliver programs and projects with limited or competing resources (time, budget, people)
• In-depth pharmaceutical manufacturing industry experience (GxP shopfloor)
• Extensive exposure to pharmaceutical manufacturing regulations and quality assurance/control
• Ability to manage data collection and analysis to make fact-based decisions
• Ability to set priorities, develop workflow processes, and manage teams in a fluid environment
• Ability to assess strengths and weaknesses of team members and provide suggestions for improvement

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
• Expertise in managing large-scale projects and programs, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals
• Strong strategic planning skills, able to develop effective project plans and roadmaps
• Proficient in stakeholder management, capable of building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Experienced in budget management, able to allocate resources efficiently and control project costs
• Skilled in resource allocation, ensuring optimal deployment of personnel and assets for project success
• Knowledgeable in compliance, familiar with regulatory requirements and internal policies affecting project management
• Strong drive for delivery and ability to jump between 5-10 different projects / topics
• Natural ability to quickly gauge priorities
• Training and mentoring experience to help with improvement and adoption of PM best practices

You have been recognized to overcome obstacles and deliver under pressure. You possess comprehensive expertise in your discipline and broad knowledge across related areas. You excel at anticipating internal/external challenges, recommending improvements, and providing leadership and consultative expertise where needed. Your role involves shaping company policies, solving unique, far-reaching problems affecting operations, disciplines, or other business units/functional areas/regions. You frequently interact with equivalent-level managers and functional teams, conducting briefings and technical meetings. Operating independently, you provide guidance in the most complex situations, lead functional teams or projects, and serve as a best practice/quality resource. Your ability to work interdisciplinary and across time zones complete the picture.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. 

For Location:

Lexington, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$154,400.00 - $242,550.00

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location. 

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation. 

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Locations

Lexington, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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