R&D Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Functional GCM Project Manager (R&D)
Location: Remote
Pay Rate: $55-70/hr (based on experience)
Duration: 6 Months

Job Description

Takeda R&D is seeking Functional GCM Project Managers to support global capability transformation across R&D functions, including the establishment of development hubs in India and Poland. The role involves translating functional strategies and organizational designs into executable workforce, onboarding, change management, and transition plans.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issue trackers.

• Coordinate R&D functional transitions, hypercare, and operational readiness activities.

• Support workforce planning, hiring waves, requisition tracking, and resource allocation.

• Coordinate employee onboarding, site readiness, and knowledge transfer dependencies.

• Support organizational change management, stakeholder readiness, and functional communications planning.

• Analyze workforce, cost, and operational assumptions for business cases and organizational design reviews.

• Prepare project status reports, executive presentations, decision materials, and implementation recommendations.

• Identify cross-functional execution risks and drive issue resolution across global teams.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Life Sciences, or a related field preferred.

Required Skills

• Project and program management in complex, global organizations.

• Integrated project planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, and risk and issue management.

• Workforce planning, hiring coordination, and resource tracking.

• Organizational transition, onboarding readiness, and implementation planning.

• Project status reporting, executive presentations, and decision documentation.

• Cross-functional workstream coordination and issue resolution.

Preferred Skills

• Pharmaceutical R&D, biotechnology, or life sciences experience.

• Global Capability Model (GCM) transformation or global capability center implementation.

• Organizational design, workforce transformation, and change management.

• Business-case development, cost analysis, and investment planning.

• Knowledge transfer, operational readiness, and transition hypercare.

• Experience supporting senior functional leaders and coordinating junior project management resources.

  
  

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