Director, Global Program Management, Neuroscience TAU

About the role

The Director, Global Program Management, Neuroscience TAU is responsible for providing strategic direction and leading global, cross-functional teams to drive development and deliver results in early to late-phase major development and/or lifecycle management programs.

Responsibilities

• Partners with the Global Program Leader to coordinate and facilitate the Global Product Team (GPT) and other cross-functional teams to develop and maintain the asset strategy and integrated development plan.
• Identifies ways to optimize program execution without compromising on patients or compliance.
• Maintains the integrated program level plan, ensuring delivery of critical path activities to progress asset development.
• Manages the strategic GPT forum and assigned sub-teams to ensure progress of asset development, including establishing meeting agendas, facilitating effective team discussions, driving to clear and timely team actions and decisions, and driving accountability for action follow-through.
• Ensures team effectiveness through team health checks with development and appropriate follow-through on action plans to boost team productivity.
• Provides financial oversight of the program, including global, cross-divisional budgets, and consolidates, vets, and prioritizes GPT spending to deliver critical path activities.
• Proactively addresses and removes barriers to program progress, keeps leadership informed of critical considerations, and independently resolves complex issues and competing priorities.
• Manages scheduled and ad-hoc program status reporting, identifies risk, and provides rationale for timeline and budget variances.
• Coordinates preparation efforts for governance engagements to support and drive asset objectives and deliverables.
• Communicates program development progress, opportunities, and risks to senior and executive management through annual portfolio analyses.
• Supports Business Development in-licensing activities to ensure appropriate technical assessment, including development costs and timelines, to support the business case of potential in-licensed compounds.
• Works as an Alliance Manager for partnered programs under the guidance of the TAU Alliance Management team.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10-12 years of strong pharmaceutical industry experience and drug development in all phases of development with significant experience within related functions (e.g. Clinical Science, Clinical Operations, Research, Regulatory, CMC, Marketing).
• Minimum of 5-7 years program management experience leading complex pharmaceutical projects in a multi-disciplinary, global environment.
• Advanced ability to positively influence outcomes, key project decisions, and strategic problem-solving.
• Advanced ability to communicate clearly and present key information objectively to all levels of the organization including executive management.
• Substantial experience in intercultural cooperation.
• Modest people management experience and/or proven leadership experience in managing global, matrix teams.
• Matrix program leadership and management skills are required.
• Therapeutic Area preferable but not required.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Ability to predict risks and independently propose solutions and appropriate mitigation plan.
• Highly effective presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to drive decision-making within cross-functional & cross-cultural, global team structures.
• Simultaneous management of multiple tasks of varied complexity.
• Flexibility, tolerance, and diplomacy to best manage change and differing opinions.
• Ability to work in a virtual setting/across time-zones, i.e., making effective use of communication tools (WebEx, TelePresence, telephone and video conferencing, etc.).
• Ability to work in a highly complex, multi-cultural, environment.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Project Professional, Excel, PowerPoint & Word.
• Fluent in English.
• Project Management Professional certification with PMI desired.

Skills

• Matrix program leadership and management skills are required.
• Advanced ability to positively influence outcomes, key project decisions, and strategic problem-solving.
• Advanced ability to communicate clearly and present key information objectively to all levels of the organization including executive management.
• Substantial experience in intercultural cooperation.
• Modest people management experience and/or proven leadership experience in managing global, matrix teams.
• Therapeutic Area preferable but not required.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Ability to predict risks and independently propose solutions and appropriate mitigation plan.
• Highly effective presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to drive decision-making within cross-functional & cross-cultural, global team structures.
• Simultaneous management of multiple tasks of varied complexity.
• Flexibility, tolerance, and diplomacy to best manage change and differing opinions.
• Ability to work in a virtual setting/across time-zones, i.e., making effective use of communication tools (WebEx, TelePresence, telephone and video conferencing, etc.).
• Ability to work in a highly complex, multi-cultural, environment.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Project Professional, Excel, PowerPoint & Word.
• Fluent in English.
• Project Management Professional certification with PMI desired.

Pay

The U.S. based employees may be eligible for a base salary range of $177,000.00 - $278,800.00, subject to state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location. Short-term and long-term incentives, 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, may also be available.

Schedule

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