Associate Director/Director Global Program Management GI TAU
Company: Takeda Pharmaceutical
Location: Clifton
Posted on: January 26, 2023
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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 an
Associate Director/Director, Global Program Management, GI TAU in
our Cambridge, MA 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.
POSITION OBJECTIVE:
Provides global program management and matrixed leadership to
global, cross-functional, cross-divisional teams to drive
development and deliver results in early to late-phase major
development and/or lifecycle management programs (including
established/marketed products) to meet Takeda strategic
objectives.
Responsibilities include providing strategic direction and
translating the cross-divisional, integrated Global Product Team
(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; interfacing
with management and influencing decision making, proactive
management and mitigation of development risks, and ensuring
appropriate communication and interface with internal governance.
---Works closely with the Global Program Leader (GPL), as well as
other R&D and Commercial functions to ensure that the
scientific and commercial strategies are incorporated into the
asset strategy and integrated development plan.
--- May lead key initiatives that have cross-functional or
cross-divisional impact that are critical to the objectives of the
Therapeutic Area Unit (TAU), Center of Operational Performance
(CoOP), CMSO and/or global business objectives.
--- 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.
--- Identifies and drives innovative process improvements with
significant organizational impact and manages, as needed,
non-project responsibilities, which can include processes and
system optimizations.
--- May have direct people management responsibilities.
POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Strategic Direction
--- Partners with GPL to coordinate and facilitate GPT or joint
Program Team (for partnered Alliance programs) and/or other
cross-functional teams to develop and maintain the asset strategy
and integrated development plan in conjunction with TAU and
commercial strategy, lifecycle management requirements, and
evidence generation/publication needs.
--- Proactively identifies resource requirements necessary to
progress asset development in alignment with TAU or enterprise
business objectives.
--- Drives clarity with GPT and other relevant stakeholders to
communicate asset strategic imperatives to ensure appropriate
prioritization.
Program Execution
--- Identifies ways to optimize program execution without
compromise to patients or compliance.
--- Accountable to maintain the integrated program level plan,
ensuring delivery of critical path activities to progress asset
development.
Program Operational Excellence
--- Ensures asset strategy and integrated development plan are
aligned with the GPT, have a patient-centric focus, incorporate
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.
--- Manages the strategic GPT forum and assigned sub-teams to
ensure progress of asset development. This includes establishing
meeting agendas, facilitating effective team discussions, driving
to clear and timely team actions and decisions, driving and holding
team members accountable for action follow-through.
--- Ensures team effectiveness through team health checks with
development and appropriate follow-through on action plans to boost
team productivity.
--- 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
--- Proactively addresses and removes barriers to program progress,
keeping leadership informed of critical considerations (e.g.,
resources, performance).
--- Proactively identify 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. Independently resolves complex issues and competing
priorities that may impact achievement of goals, creates mitigation
plans and drives to resolution.
Communication and Reporting
--- Manages scheduled and ad-hoc program status reporting, citing
progress to program goals/KPIs, proactively identifying risk with
planned mitigation(s), and providing rationale for timeline and
budget variances.
--- Participate in annual portfolio analyses to communicate program
development progress, opportunities, and risks to Senior &
Executive Management.
--- Responsible for coordinating preparation efforts for governance
engagement to support and drive asset objectives and
deliverables.
--- Proactively manages key stakeholders and facilitates relevant
communications to appropriate cross-regional, cross-functional,
cross-divisional and Alliance partners Other Accountabilities
--- Provides direction and mentors junior colleagues to work
strategically and drive results; identifies opportunities for
junior PMs to demonstrate their abilities; uses effective coaching
techniques to refocus energy and address barriers to success; leads
by example
--- May have responsibility for line management of Sr. Manager
and/or Associate Director level GPMs as well as contractors within
the GPM function.
--- May support Business Development in-licensing activities to
ensure appropriate technical assessment, including development
costs and timelines, to support the business case of potential
in-licensed compounds.
--- May work as Alliance Manager for partnered programs under the
guidance of the TAU Alliance Management team.
EDUCATION, BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
Education
--- Bachelor's Degree science or business-related field
--- Advanced degree in science or business is preferred
Experience
--- Minimum of 8-10 years of strong pharmaceutical industry
experience and drug development in all phases of development with
significant experience within related functions (e.g. Clinical
Science, Clinical Operations, Research, Regulatory, CMC,
Marketing)
--- Minimum of 5 years program management experience leading
complex pharmaceutical projects in a multi-disciplinary, global
environment
--- Demonstrated ability to positively influence outcomes, key
project decisions, and strategic problem-solving
--- Proven ability to communicate clearly and present key
information objectively to all levels of the organization including
executive management
--- Substantial experience in intercultural cooperation
--- Modest people management experience and/or proven leadership
experience in managing global, matrix teams Knowledge and
Skills
--- Matrix program leadership and management skills are required
--- Therapeutic Area preferable but not required
--- Strong influencing skills
--- Ability to predict risks and independently propose solutions
and appropriate mitigation plan
--- Highly effective presentation, written and verbal communication
skills
--- Ability to drive decision-making within cross-functional &
cross-cultural, global team structures
--- Simultaneous management of multiple tasks of varied
complexity
--- Flexibility, tolerance and diplomacy to best manage change and
differing opinions
--- Ability to work in a virtual setting/across time-zones, i.e.,
making effective use of communication tools (WebEx, TelePresence,
telephone and video conferencing, etc.)
--- Ability to work in a highly complex, multi-cultural,
environment
--- Excellent organizational skills
--- Experience with Microsoft Project Professional, Excel,
PowerPoint & Word
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
--- Project Management Professional certification with PMI
desired
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:
--- May travel to the US, EU and Japan offices and other
international locations.
--- Approximately 10% travel is required.
Location and Salary Information:
Base Salary Range: $143,500 to $205,000, based on candidate
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