Associate Director, Global Program Management, Neuroscience TAU

Associate Director, Global Program Management

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, Global Program Management 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.

Objectives:

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.

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 conjuction 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 subteams 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…