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The Senior Product Manager role involves aligning business and technology stakeholders to develop and communicate a portfolio of product vision, managing product planning and backlog prioritization, and ensuring a sustainable endtoend customer experience globally. This position reports to the Head of Design & Delivery and operates within the Development & Regulatory DD&T organization, supporting Global Development and Global Regulatory business functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Vision: Develop and convey product strategy and vision in collaboration with stakeholders, aligning with business goals and technology directions. Maintain and communicate the product roadmap and backlog to ensure team alignment and delivery of value.
• AI Native: Consistently challenge how processes and products can evolve to exploit AI and drive toward future workforce and product requirements.
• Technical and Leadership Expertise: Understand clinical trial delivery and regulatory processes, product management in pharmaceutical R&D, and bridge business and technical teams. Collaborate with product engineers and designers to support a modern product ecosystem.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Solicit information from IT Business Partners and Business Stakeholders on business direction, goals, and strategies to inform product strategy. Facilitate alignment among stakeholders to support business strategy.
• Planning and Prioritization: Own product planning, including shortterm release plans and longterm roadmaps. Drive prioritization of the product backlog to keep the team unblocked and aligned.
• Budget and Resources: Manage the product budget in consultation with stakeholders, balancing resources, vision development, and prototyping to sustain product teams.
• Customer Experience: Optimize user experience by continually monitoring and refining the product, ensuring performance and value delivery.

Accountabilities

• Build and maintain the product backlog with the technical team.
• Continuously prioritize work to deliver the most significant value to product users.
• Communicate the product vision and maintain stakeholder support.
• Monitor and refine product performance and service management.

Core Elements Related To This Role

• Strategic Planning and Thinking develop product strategies, vision, and roadmaps aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Functional knowledge of clinical trial delivery processes and technologies.

Technical & Functional Expertise

• Understand the language product teams use and communicate effectively across technical and business domains.
• Operate within core technologies such as AI/ML when required.
• Translate technical language into business language as needed.
• Communicate with relevant R&D teams about supported business processes.

Leadership & DecisionMaking

• Collaborate effectively with Product Engineers, Business System Owners, Solution Architect and other stakeholders across ecosystems.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technology platforms and software products to solve business problems.

Interaction & Communication

• Embed with product teams to provide transparency and manage expectations.
• Reconcile perspectives on product strategy and priorities into consensus.

Innovation & Complexity

• Stay on top of industry trends and apply new technologies to the product roadmap.
• Effectively convey product vision and inspire enthusiasm among stakeholders.
• Evangelize the vision within target communities or ecosystems, ensuring partners feel heard and served.

Education, Competencies & Skills

• Bachelors degree in a scientific discipline, computer science, or business administration (preferred but not required).
• 7+ years of professional experience in R&D, IT service delivery, or related areas; experience in agile software delivery is preferred.
• Indepth knowledge of product management in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in stakeholder relationship management and influential orchestration.
• Strong understanding of clinical trial delivery and/or regulatory affairs/operations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, business acumen, and enterprise knowledge.
• Minimum design thinking understanding; advanced practice a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Location: Boston, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range: $137,000.00 $215,270.00 (annualized)

Eligibility for shortterm and/or longterm incentives. Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, shortterm and longterm disability coverage, basic life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and wellbeing benefits. U.S. employees may accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation and up to 80 hours of sick time per calendar year.

EEO Statement

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Employment Details

• Worker Type: Employee
• Worker SubType: Regular
• Time Type: Full time
• Job Exempt: Yes

Legal Notice

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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