Global Portfolio Lead - Finance Solutions

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As a Global Portfolio Lead – Finance Solutions, within the Takeda Global Finance CoE, you'll play a crucial role in supporting our strategic Finance programs and initiatives. 

This is a vital role within the Program Delivery Solutions function— one of the key powerhouse transversal teams behind the Global Finance CoE’s global success, driving excellence in program and project delivery across the organization.  

We collaborate closely with Global Finance CoE leadership, business stakeholders, and external partners to ensure the seamless execution of transformative initiatives, enhancing Takeda’s Finance organization’s strategic vision and roadmap. 

Your responsibilities will span from ensuring the assessment and delivery of measurable project and program-driven business value, to driving stakeholder engagement, managing project lifecycles, and executing against challenging value-based targets. Your proactive approach, deep background in effective project and program management, and exceptional leadership skills will be instrumental in aligning stakeholders, mitigating risks, leveraging opportunities, and delivering successful outcomes. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Ensure the delivery of measurable business value, quality, and cost savings through project and portfolio implementation. 

• Develop and manage the Finance project portfolio roadmap, including detailed planning, resourcing, risks, and end-to-end execution. 

• Independently evaluate initiatives to determine scope, value opportunity, resourcing needs, budgets, success factors, and weighted probability of positive outcomes   

• Support and coach project managers in planning, managing, and executing across the portfolio of global projects. 

• Manage relationships with senior stakeholders across and outside the Global Finance CoE ensuring alignment and successful project lifecycle management. 

• Collaborate with internal and external teams to drive initiatives and foster a culture of collaboration. 

• Provide regular project updates to the Global Finance CoE leadership team, actively managing risks and interdependencies. 

• Act as a point of contact for a portfolio of global projects, ensuring alignment of critical project information. 

• Contribute to project and program-related analysis, business case development, and continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Drive the continuous development and evolution of PDS project management capabilities, methodologies, and tools. 

Required qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in finance/accounting/human resources/project management. 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in finance, accounting, procurement, and/or project management. 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in leading cross-functional project teams, ideally in an international context. 

• Previous experience in leading transformation and program/project management across multiple domains and countries. 

• Business fluency in English (written and spoken). 

• Advanced user knowledge of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint). 

• Experience with project planning and management tools, and the application of AI in project and program execution 

• Strong risk identification and management acumen. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. 

• An analytical, structured, and impact-oriented mind-set. 

• Ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics and manage through ambiguity. 

• Ability to form strong, trusted, and sustainable working relationships across all levels of the organization. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Project Management qualification/certification (PMP, PRINCE2) and/or LEAN six sigma qualification. 

• Deep functional knowledge in several domain areas (Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, HR, other). 
• Good knowledge of shared service processes and ways of working. 

• Good knowledge of ServiceNow and/or SAP and/or Workday and/or Ariba. 
• Previous pharma experience, ideally in a project or transformational role will be an asset

Base Salary Range:

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

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