Director, Vaccines Medical Program Management

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Job Description

At our heart we are committed colleagues. We offer interested people numerous opportunities and strongly believe in and promote diversity equity and inclusion. As a company we offer roles based on merit welcoming candidates of any gender age religious belief sexual orientation race color ethnic or social originor disability.

Our team is growing and for this we need bright minds with creativity and flexibility what talent do you have

About the role:

• Provide strategic program leadership for the most critical and complex Medical priorities ensuring that enterprise Medical strategies are translated into executable portfolio plans governed effectively and delivered with visibility accountability and disciplined decision-making.

• Serve as a senior PMO partner to Therapeutic Area and Medical leaders shaping execution models governance architecture and cross-functional alignment for major programs portfolios launches transformations and lifecycle priorities.

• Improve enterprise execution confidence by integrating milestone management dependency control risk signaling budget visibility and escalation leadership across highly matrixed Medical environments.

• Strengthen the Medical PMO operating model by defining standards mentoring talent and advancing data-enabled GCM-forward execution practices that improve speed transparency and consistency at scale.

How you will contribute:

• Lead end-to-end execution management for the most strategically important Medical portfolios or programs establishing integrated roadmaps governance structures milestone frameworks and escalation pathways that support enterprise delivery confidence.

• Partner with senior Medical leaders to shape execution strategy for complex initiatives ensuring that portfolio priorities are converted into realistic sequenced plans with clear accountabilities resource assumptions interdependency management and decision forums.

• Provide enterprise-level visibility into execution health for assigned scope synthesizing milestones budget implications risks dependencies and organizational constraints into clear leadership narratives and recommended actions.

• Drive portfolio-level governance and decision-making by facilitating high-value leadership discussions surfacing trade-offs aligning stakeholders around choices and ensuring timely closure of critical decisions.

• Own the most complex risk and issue management topics within assigned scope including systemic barriers cross-program conflicts resourcing tensions and execution risks that require senior intervention or enterprise coordination.

• Guide prioritization and scenario planning with Medical leaders and PMO leadership helping determine where to accelerate sequence differently de-scope or escalate in order to protect enterprise objectives and delivery credibility.

• Provide strategic oversight of budget and resource implications for assigned portfolios partnering with Finance and business leaders to assess execution feasibility spending pressures and trade-offs linked to critical path delivery.

• Shape and improve the Medical PMO operating model through refinement of standards decision-rights governance cadences reporting frameworks and digital or automation-enabled execution practices.

• Model Takeda values and reinforce a culture of integrity scientific credibility inclusion accountability and continuous improvement in all PMO activities.

Skills and qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree in science business operations engineering or management preferred.

• 12-14 years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical biotech healthcare or other regulated environments including extensive leadership of complex global programs or portfolios.

• Proven experience partnering with senior leaders to shape execution strategy and guide major portfolio decisions in matrixed organizations.

• PMP PgMP change management certification or comparable advanced PM/portfolio credentials preferred.

• Strategic execution leadership: translates enterprise priorities into delivery models governance and portfolio control mechanisms.

• Enterprise portfolio insight: identifies patterns trade-offs and systemic execution risks across multiple programs.

• Executive communication: frames status implications options and recommendations in a concise leadership-ready manner.

• Organizational influence: aligns senior stakeholders and drives action through credibility judgment and structured facilitation.

• PMO leadership and talent development: strengthens standards coaches others and advances a data-enabled future-ready execution model.

• Digital enablement mindset for PMO: Embeds a digital enablement mindset across the PMO leading adoption of digital tools automation and data-driven practices to transform operations improve decision-making and drive scalable execution.

Empowering our people to shine

At Takeda we earn the trust of society and our customers through our values of Takeda-ism: Integrity Fairness Honesty Perseverance. We incorporate these values in everything we do. They represent who we are and how we act. They help us make decisions that we can be proud of today and in the future. We enable our employees to develop their full potential. As a global top employer we offer exciting career paths promote innovation and strive for top performance in everything we do. Takeda fosters an inclusive collaborative and international work environment where our teams are united by their relentless commitment to our goal of improving peoples health and creating a better future for the world.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion

Takeda is committed to foster diversity equality and inclusion. Hiring decisions are based entirely on qualifications and are made regardless of gender ethnic origin religion sexual orientation age or disability.

If you are interested in this opportunity we look forward to receiving your application via our online tool!

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Locations

Zurich Switzerland

Base Salary Range:

CHF189400.00 - CHF260480.00

For information about our benefits please click here.

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Required Experience:

Director

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1