Sr. Project Manager - Alta Petens
Company: Takeda Pharmaceutical
Location: Clifton
Posted on: May 10, 2022
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to the best of my knowledge.Job DescriptionJob DescriptionTakeda is
advancing in an exciting program and wants to ensure that we have
the infrastructure and talent in place to support it. Our overall
goal is to get our therapeutics to patients quickly by having the
right operational model and integrated clinical data pipeline to
support delivery.The project manager will contribute to Takeda's
mission by managing time, effort, deliverables, communication and
value associated with high quality delivery of one or multiple
projects within a transformational R&D trial data program. This
data program will include an integrated data flow with end-to-end
control of data, internalization of numerous systems and processes,
broad enablement of automation and near-time data access, efficient
data review and query, and enablement of disruptive technologies
for next-generation trial designs and insight derivation.The Sr.
Project Manager will:
- Proactively identify, track, manage and escalate action items,
risks, issues, decisions and dependencies.
- Manage the key relationships between all stakeholders to
deliver on project and program mission and objectives
- Drive continuous delivery of value using agile life cycle
management from communication, development, optimizations, and
performing quality control on projects throughout the journey.
- Create and maintain long and short term project plans and other
documentation, including setting targets for milestones and
adhering to deadlines and change management activities.
- Proactively monitor and maintain project-related end-to-end
customer/business experiences and influence relevant stakeholders
to support and deliver successful project milestones while making
effective decisions when presented with multiple options.
- Coordinate project team meetings and serve as a point of
contact for the project teams when cross-functional activities are
identified to ensure team actions remain in synergy.
- Partner with peers within program to drive continuous
improvement and optimization of processes, user experiences, and
applications aligned with business stakeholders.Delivery & Business
AccountabilitiesThe Sr. Project Manager is expected to:
- Support Alta Petens Systems & Architecture Program with various
activities and projects. Responsibilities include:
- Assist with development and maintenance of project plans, key
milestones and change management activities,
- Assist with maintaining centralized
action/risk/issue/decision/dependency log and mitigation tracking
for project(s),
- Schedule meetings with project team members and partners to
identify and address project needs and escalations,
- Build and maintain project team site including summaries of key
decisions/outcomes and action items
- Facilitates communication of project outcomes as appropriate
through email, internal communication sites, other department
meetings, etc.
- Assists in the monitoring and management of the project(s)
progress, schedules and resources
- Closely monitor project plans, gather relevant data to
continuously gain new insight and adjust roadmaps, offering to
optimize performance and effectiveness.
- Support project teams and business in establishing measurable
value targets for the project and track outcomesCORE ELEMENTS
RELATED TO THIS ROLE
- Highly cross-functional role with broad scope of
responsibilities
- High visibility and critical impact on the future of the
businessDIMENSIONS AND ASPECTSTechnical/Functional (Line) Expertise
- Work independently on highly complex problems with other team
members and independently solving, with some guidance, very
difficult technology problems.
- Demonstrates advanced infrastructure tooling and techniques to
others across the program, business and IT.
- Demonstrated in depth knowledge of key patterns and industry
awareness of trends in the bio/pharma industry.Leadership
- Ability to guide and influence multiple 3rd party operations
providers to deliver at appropriate levels of quality, response
times, stability, and agility.
- Ability to supervise and influence the general platform
community across Takeda to a future state modern Ecosystem of
Products, Platforms, Analytics and Microservices and help drive all
divisions to a better end state.Decision-making and Autonomy
- Ability to guide our third-party support teams to maintain a
stable analytics ecosystem. It will re-quire the need to make
tactical decision when needed to our operational environments.
- Ability to work through/complex and propose proper technology
choices.
- Independently manage day to day operational issues while
knowing when to escalate more critical problems or decisions in the
environmentInteraction
- Effectively negotiate and resolve conflicts in a constructive
manner
- Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with
other interfacing Takeda functionsInnovation
- Ability to understand highly complex problems and be able to
apply modern technology patterns to them.
- Ability to iterate and innovate as they apply modern techniques
while fostering an environment that encourages applied
innovation.
- Serve as a role model, demonstrating respect and inclusion,
creating a culture that fosters innovationComplexity
- Ability to have an agile time-based delivery team operate
within a traditional project and waterfall-based funding and
approval cycles.
- Guide complex deployments from Design to implementation and
finally deployment. Many of these solutions are difficult to make
stable at scale.EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND
SKILLS:Required:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in a scientific discipline,
computer science, or business administration is preferred.
- 6 years or more of relevant professional experience in research
and development business lines, IT service delivery, or related
area.
- Professional in-depth knowledge of project management in the
pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in stakeholder relationship management. Influential
in orchestrating key stakeholders and project teams to turn vision
into reality.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, business
acumen, and enterprise knowledge.
- Extensive experience in design or in implementing solutions and
preferable experience in quality improvement.
- Understand design thinking and can explain and convince
stakeholders.
- Work with virtual/agile teams in different locations, aligning
and adapting different work, culture, and communication
styles.
- Extensive Project management experience.Preferred:
- Master's Degree
- Familiarity working in a lean and agile software delivery
team.
- Working knowledge of clinical data systems such as EDC, IRT,
Statistical Analysis Environments, CTMS and eTMFIn accordance with
the CO Equal Pay Act, Colorado Applicants Are Not Permitted to
Apply.This position is currently classified as "hybrid" in
accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.#LI-KD1EEO
StatementTakeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse
workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all
employees and applicants for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender
expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability,
citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital
status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran,
or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal,
state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by
law.LocationsBoston, MAWorker TypeEmployeeWorker
Sub-TypeRegularTime TypeFull time
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