Director – Launch Excellence Program Manager

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Job Description

About the role:

Are you looking for a patient-focused company that will inspire you and support your career? If so, be empowered to take charge of your future at Takeda. Join us as a Launch Excellence Program Management (Director level) in our Cambridge, MA office.

Here everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. As a Launch Excellence Program Management Director working on the Global Oncology Business Unit (GOBU) Program Management Office (PMO), you will be responsible for leading successful planning and execution of launch excellence efforts  through program, project, and portfolio management for launch brands.  This role involves developing and implementing enterprise capabilities, best practices, processes, and governance across launch brands.  A typical day will include:

• Lead large cross-functional, cross-regional launch teams to design and execute implementation plans for Global launch brands of high strategic importance to the GOBU, helping Takeda deliver on its commitments to patients, and develop and embed commercial launch capabilities across the enterprise in support of new product launches.

• Ensure optimal set up and implementation of GOBU launch excellence framework, provide efficient launch excellence leadership, ensure effective issue and risk identification and resolution, and support resource management planning to realize program strategic objectives in line with launch timelines

• Collaborate closely with the Oncology Leadership Team and cross-functional teams to implement launch operating and governance model across Global and Regional commercial teams and other collaborating functions (e.g. R&D) in a highly matrixed environment.  Serve as a thought partner to brand leadership, sharing best practices and lessons learned from other launches.

• It requires a dynamic leader with a strategic approach, high learning agility, strong emotional intelligence, and strong planning and communication skills.

How you will contribute:

• Drive the implementation of program and project management processes, systems, and governance in alignment with the GOBU Launch Excellence framework. Ensure streamlined execution and effective collaboration across launch teams and organizational leadership to achieve strategic objectives.

• Collaborate with cross-functional launch brand teams, Strategy & Operations, and PMO teams to develop and refine best practices, ensuring alignment and consistency across initiatives.

• Collaborate with launch brand teams to develop and manage key launch deliverables, including launch plans, presentations, and essential documentation to track and memorialize launch progress. Examples include scope and charter development, requirements gathering, project planning, dashboard reporting, workshop designs, risk registers, and procedural documentation.

• Foster a high-performing launch team by defining and clarifying roles and responsibilities for team members while implementing best practices and tools to support efficient and effective ways of working and project management.

• Collaborate with launch brand team leads to design and executing stakeholder communication plans, ensuring cross-functional teams and leadership are consistently informed of key updates, potential risks and opportunities

• Prepare, facilitate, and proactively manage execution of actions resulting from launch reviews, including:

  • Interact cross-functionally on a day-to-day basis with key internal/external stakeholders from commercial, medical, market access, regulatory, and all other relevant functions

  • Facilitates launch readiness review meetings and provides follow-up communications

  • Drives prioritization of agenda topics and prepare meeting materials for x-functional workstream meetings

  • Provides an objective point of view based on industry best practices

  • Facilitate issues resolution or escalation as needed

• Collaborates with launch teams to assess risks and develop effective mitigation strategies

• Act as the internal subject matter expert (SME) on GOBU Launch Excellence, driving the pull-through of the launch excellence framework as applicable for launch programs.

• Develop and maintain launch tracking and communication tools such as dashboards or reports.

• Design and facilitate planning and scenario workshops to ensure readiness and identify potential challenges

• Ensure launch teams accountability to deliver on commitments.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA and/or PMI certification strongly desired

• 6+ years proven experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives in advanced program or project management role within a commercialization environment

• Demonstrated success in commercial planning and launching products, including driving effective launch strategy, and identifying and implementing best practices

• Experience managing competing priorities and ensuring timely delivery of project tasks, preferably within a product launch

• Outstanding working knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes

• Able to thrive in a highly dynamic, fast paced, continuously changing global environment with minimal oversight/direction

• We are seeking driven, ambitious candidates with prior experience either as consultants to the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors, or who have experience working directly for a commercial pharmaceutical organization participating in the delivery of complex projects and delivering impactful results.

Critical core competencies for successful performance in this role are:

• Deep understanding of life sciences or adjacent industry

• Results / action-oriented ability to manage multiple concurrent large-scale initiatives

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence senior leaders

• Critical thinker and creative problem solver with high learning agility

• Strong leadership and management of large matrixed cross- functional teams

• Highly developed executive level communications skills (written/verbal) with organizational and interpersonal savvy

• Exceptional skills with Smartsheet, MS Project, Visio, and MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• This role may require travel approximately 10% of the time

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

This position is currently classified as "hybrid" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

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:

Boston, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$174,500.00 - $274,230.00

EEO Statement

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Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

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