Remote Program Manager (Medical Affairs, Oncology)

Location: Remote
Contract duration: 3 months to start, with possibility of extension or conversion based on performance and business needs
Pay: $116–120 an hour

About the role

Provide advanced project and program support for USMAO therapeutic areas, serving as a central point for team members and managing oncology program efforts. Support medical leads with budget planning, process management, and strategic oversight to ensure project goals and KPIs are met.

Responsibilities

• Manage program efforts for USMAO oncology programs, including budget planning, process guidance, and overall project progress review.
• Ensure prioritization, monitor goals/KPIs, and provide strategic feedback and proactive updates to team members and the USMAO Oncology Leadership Team (OLT).
• Anticipate and address program issues requiring action, alignment, escalation, or discussions on dependencies, risks, and information-sharing.
• Ensure compliance with appropriate SOPs and guidelines.
• Support strategic medical planning by collecting and analyzing data for annual brand strategy, tactical plans, and mid-year check-ins.
• Assist in planning key activities, roles/responsibilities, milestones, timelines, dependencies, risks, and budgets.
• Collaborate with cross-organizational stakeholders (e.g., Finance, Global Medical Affairs Oncology) to ensure alignment.
• Identify opportunities to improve, accelerate, or expand projects while maintaining high quality standards.
• Facilitate meeting management, including agenda development, meeting minutes, and action item issuance.
• Manage overall program communications and SharePoint/Microsoft Teams sites.
• Proactively engage with the broader Takeda organization to drive operational excellence and promote best practices in project management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of project management experience on cross-functional projects in a healthcare environment.
• Experience and understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.
• Demonstrated success working within matrix teams, influencing outcomes, and driving key project decisions.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and aware of larger business needs and implications.
• Ability to work both independently and interdependently in cross-functional teams.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including clear communication of business processes and solutions in person and via Webex.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving professional environment.
• Proactive ability to recognize, predict, and prioritize issues, alert the team, and engage in problem-solving.
• Experience working within a cross-functional and cross-cultural global team structure.
• Flexibility to manage change and differing opinions with diplomacy and competence.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks of varied complexity simultaneously.
• Strong diplomacy and positive influencing abilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project Professional, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience in mitigation and management of vendor performance issues.