Project Management Lead, Associate Director, Global Legal, E&C Ops

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By driving alignment across stakeholders and functions, the role ensures initiatives are executed efficiently and result in clear, measurable business benefits that support organizational and compliance objectives. How you will contribute: - Own PMO execution for assigned programs. - Set up and manage program governance structures, plans, RAID logs, charters, and status routines. - Build integrated workplans, stakeholder maps, resourcing strategies, and decision frameworks. - Manage cross-functional dependencies with DD&T, Finance, Procurement, and Legal and E&C SMEs. - Deliver accurate portfolio reporting including risks, decisions, resource needs, and financial tracking. - Apply consistent PMO methodologies across initiatives. - Partner with Change Management and Learning & Development to integrate communications, training, and adoption plans. - Track and communicate value realization metrics and continuous improvement opportunities. - Establish and maintain tracking for key functional obligations, controls, and remediation actions; surface trends, decisions, and escalations - Drive high-quality executive reporting with clear synthesis and recommended actions. - Partner with Operations Leadership team to ensure alignment with annual plans and multi-year roadmaps. - Establish and update the business case(s) for the strategic initiatives and assess their impact on the forecasted business outcomes, applying best-practice financial and business planning practices. - Identify, manage, and appropriately escalate project risks and decisions. Work with project teams to analyze risks and develop options and recommendations to resolve them. Leadership - Able to rapidly resolve conflicts while ensuring buy-in from stakeholders. - Able to both detect and rapidly adapt to changes in the business and operating environment. - Plan the critical path and hold team members accountable for their activities. - Able to coach project teams to successfully execute projects through defined, yet flexible project lifecycle phases and governance processes. Decision-making and Autonomy - Ability to drive strategic decision-making. - Drives consensus on a path forward when there are ambiguous or conflicting viewpoints. - Performs methodical analysis to underpin all recommendations; able to explain and justify rationale. - Provide direction on when projects should move forward, when to escalate issues, and when to close out open actions. Minimum Requirements/Qualifications: - 8 years in PMO, legal operations, global/enterprise program management in complex, matrixed environments. - Bachelor’s degree required - PMP/Agile/Lean certification preferred. - Strong ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and navigate complex stakeholder environments. - Strong executive communication, issue resolution, and multi-workstream coordination. - Outstanding communication skills including the ability to interact with all levels of management, including senior leaders. Must be able to tailor communications to deliver the same content to vastly different audiences. Uses independent judgment to identify, plan, prioritize, and organize diversified workload as required. Must be excellent with PowerPoint and able to both perform and consume analysis with Excel. Experience with enterprise PPM software a plus. 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. #LI-Hybrid 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: $154,400.00 - $242,550.00 The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location. U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation. 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Takeda is an industry-leading, global pharmaceutical company with an unwavering dedication to putting patients at the center of everything we do. We live our values of Takeda-ism – Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance – and are united by our mission to strive towards Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine. Here, everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. At Takeda, you will make an impact on people’s lives – including your own. Takeda is an equal opportunity employer. For applicants of U.S and Puerto Rico positions: Click here to learn about our commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). If you are limited in the ability to use our job application tool, or otherwise require a reasonable accommodation for a disability please click here.