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Senior Project Manager (Thousand Oaks)

Randstad USA, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States


The Senior Project Management Lead will be a key team member of the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) supporting site projects across the Thousand Oaks Portfolio ensuring timely supply of products to patients and value to our shareholders through supporting ongoing operations, implementing improvements, and enabling growth. They will serve as a champion of Takeda’s Project Management Methodology (PMM), associated PMO processes and apply their project specific leadership and management skills to manage projects of different types, sizes, and complexity through the full life cycle of the project to ensure timely delivery within scope, time, and budget.

PMO
• As a part of the PMO you will be accountable to ensure adherence of the Takeda PMM by all PMs on site, support and maintain the Takeda Project Portfolio Life Cycle Management (LCM) system and be an expert in Project Management at the site.
• Use project management tools to collect data to monitor & report on the progress of projects in the Portfolio and for intervention and problem solving with project teams.
• Review phase gate request deliverables for project phase completion and ensure teams focus on improving project management product quality.
• Provide training, coaching and support to project stakeholders (project team members, sponsors and steering committee members) in project and portfolio management best practices, business processes, methodology and tools.
• Continuously improve site Project Management practices & performance based on lessons learned and relevant KPIs.
• Support the deployment of strategy into the organization by helping facilitate the connection between the execution of the project portfolio and strategic programs.

Project Management
• Lead cross-functional project teams and ensure project deliverables through all project phases (initiate through track) by managing project documentation, resources, costs, labor, purchases, invoice reconciliation, scheduling, budget, risk, communications, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), quality compliance and maintain scope. Ensure projects are implemented within stated goals and timelines.
• Provide input to the project prioritization process and participate in other key strategic business portfolio processes to ensure proper prioritization and funding in support of site objectives.
• Adjust work plans, as appropriate, to meet changing needs and requirements. Responsible for making or escalating decisions for potential or actual impacts to successful implementation and closure of the project.
• Anticipate and positively resolve conflict situations, anticipate and eliminate or minimize barriers to progress, and implement mitigation for risks/issues.
• Clarify project requirements to meet stakeholder expectations.
• Manage expectations and communicate project status and escalations with project sponsor, senior management, and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Work under minimal supervision, independently planning and prioritizing work.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Approximate Allocation of Time
• 60% Project Management
• 10% PMO Project / Governance Support
• 10% Program Strategy Support
• 10% Training, Development, Administrative, Site Activities
• 10% Flex / Other Duties As Assigned