Senior Delivery Manager

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Job Description

Senior Delivery Manager

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda we are creating a future-ready organization one that evolves at the speed of science and technology using data and digital to meet the needs of patients our people and the order to make that happen we need your help. Join our exciting and new Innovation Capability Center (ICC) in Bangalore India. This specialized innovative and state of the art center of technological resources will drive data and digital capabilities and solutions across Takeda. The Center will be home to approximately 300 change agents organized into chapters and cross-functional squads based on agile ways of working. Grow your data and digital skills create and enhance solutions for patients around the globe and help us create a data and digital-forward Takeda. This is a unique opportunity to become the heart of our internal innovation engine.

OBJECTIVES:

Provide Project and Portfolio Management leadership across Global IT including value realization communication tracking and visualization and leading excellence in delivery of those objectives.

Responsible for implementing governance alignment and management including sourcing budgeting compliance project and portfolio Global IT processes.

Provides leadership to cross-functional teams and/or program composed of multiple products/work streams with medium complexity in the successful delivery of high-impact IT initiatives.

Manages solutions to achieve identified objectives drives program achievement and influences decision-making on projects and focusing on business outcomes.

Key contributor to transforming Global IT units to the Product Centric operating model by influencing and implementing change management and providing guidance for transition from waterfall to agile methodologies.

Identify and solve complex problems in Project/Program Management across Waterfall and Agile methodologies for implementation and/or administration of project governance requirements feedback for process improvement lessons learned and program enhancements. Acta s a point of escalation moderately complex non-routine problems.

Identify opportunities and business needs by ensuring alignment of project and product investments and initiatives with business strategy based on changing functional needs resource capacity constraints risk exposure and interdependencies Lead the implementation of strategic and core projects and programs with routine monitoring measurement and reporting of performance to budget schedule and business objectives.

Identifies barriers that are slowing down projects and identify innovative solutions to remove inefficiencies to drive toward program goals. Provide periodic updates to senior management. Monitor execution of various delivery team activities

Actively manages the project governance and portfolio management processes to ensure that approved functional area projects fit within budget and resource constraints; has visibility into project performance and project risks and issues. Ensures governance coordination and sup-port of the project/program portfolio. Partner with Global IT Portfolio Leads to ensure compliance with and appropriate use of enterprise portfolio/project management tools

Contributes to key initiatives projects and changes in collaboration with business Global IT Sponsors and Global IT Partners to maintain a highly productive and effective delivery team through facilitation and coordination and to ensure excellence in delivery of business outcomes.

Lead multiple matrix delivery teams ensure alignment to software delivery processes/best practices and work with project managers to maintain project management standards and procedures.

Coach develop and mentor delivery teams in the development of detailed project plans identifying resource needs to support delivery efforts and coordinating the daily activities of the development teams for guidance and direction on problems or issues and to ensure excellence in delivery of business outcomes.

Works effectively in a multi-cultural multi-disciplinary team environment. Experience working with local and virtual team. Able to organize and direct others work efforts with tact and diplomacy and contribute to the development of team members and team goals

EDUCATION BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Masters Degree in relevant field (Management Technology) is required. 8 years experience within a Lean/Agile development environment Extensive experience partnering with business area leaders to plan and deliver programs.

Extensive product/program/project management experience including management of full lifecycle implementations for major applications.

Outstanding communication skills both written and verbal and ability to reach audiences of all levels of a large global organization (required)

Technical knowledge to determine how project data can be organized meaningfully in order to facilitate project team success.

Highly effective written and verbal communication skills to manage motivate and drive decisions within cross-cultural teams.

Proven skills in negotiation influencing without authority and working diplomatically through conflict.

Ability to identify advocate and implement change positively for the organization. Demonstrates flexibility and the ability to accommodate change.

Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Thorough understanding of Scrum Kanban and/or SAFe methodologies

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