Digital Innovation Program Manager

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Job Description

About The Team:

We seek an experienced and driven Digital Program Manager to join our Digital Innovation & AI team within Global Manufacturing & Supply / Global Quality Data Digital & Technology (GMS/GQ DD&T). Our team strives to lead digital innovation in the pharmaceutical industry by identifying capability gaps, designing solutions, accelerating experiments, conducting market research, and enhancing business operations. A good candidate will have a proven ability to adapt quickly to shifting priorities, manage through ambiguity, while keeping focus on key strategic opportunities.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to drive efficiencies in existing product lifecycle processes
• Guide team on how to use scrum and agile practices to improve collaboration and team output
• Manage interdependencies, facilitate escalations, measure and track initiatives
• Translate data-driven insights into clear strategies and present analyses to technical and non-technical audiences 
• Step in as product owner and prioritize backlogs for initiatives, when needed
• Stay up to date with digital trends, formulate perspective, and share findings
• Be a solid team player with no direct reports, and have a strong ability to influence others
• Build and manage dashboards using different visualization tools, and teach others how to self-serve where possible
• Foster relationships with industry partners who have innovative technological capabilities, and identify how to leverage these solutions within Takeda, specifically for the Global Manufacturing & Supply / Global Quality (GMS/GQ) business unit

Skills and Requirements:

• 12+ years real-world experience in conducting analysis, managing portfolio of concurrent projects, and defining key business metrics
• Ability to oversee multiple concurrent workstreams in a dynamic environment across a very matrixed organization spanning multiple geographies
• Hands-on and influential leader who is meticulously detailed-oriented
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with ability to tell a story in a clear and concise manner to technical and non-technical audiences is required
• Experience operating in a regulated environment, e.g. SOX, GxP
• Firm grasp of industry, digital, and artificial intelligence trends and market conditions
• Skilled in agile product development and use of Jira, Confluence, Miro
• Experience using Microsoft Power Platform and data visualization tools
• Experience in biopharmaceutical or manufacturing industry with understanding of applicable compliance, is a plus

Where You Will Be:

• We have a hybrid working environment
• Primary office location for this role will be Lexington / Cambridge MA
• We are a global organization with many colleagues in the US Eastern and Central European time zones
• Some travel internationally is possible (estimated 1 travel every 6 months for 1 week)

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:

$137,000.00 - $215,270.00

EEO Statement

Takeda 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.

Locations

Lexington, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

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