Design Delivery Lead

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Design Delivery Manager to lead multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across portfolios. You will manage scope, cost, schedule, resources, and quality while ensuring alignment with project objectives and regulatory requirements.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, risk management, and continuous improvement with a focus on digital engineering and best practices in pharmaceutical capital projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, design management, project delivery, or capital project environments.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering activities in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated industries.
• Experience managing engineering scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and quality.
• Experience across Concept, FEED, Detailed Design, and Project Delivery phases.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across projects and portfolios.
• Ensure scope, cost, schedule, resources, quality, and deliverables are planned and delivered.
• Drive integration across disciplines for high-quality design solutions.
• Support engineering excellence, compliance with GMP and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as GCC interface and communicate status, risks, and deliverables to stakeholders.
• Promote digital engineering, standardization, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Financial awareness

Risk management

Communication

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

Job Description

Objectives / Purpose:

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across assigned projects and portfolios.
• Ensure engineering scope, cost, schedule, resources, quality, and deliverables are effectively planned, managed, and delivered.
• Drive integration across engineering disciplines to ensure consistent, efficient, and high-quality design solutions.
• Support engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with business, project, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Accountabilities:

Design Delivery Management:

• Accountable for planning, coordinating, and managing multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across assigned projects and portfolios.
• Manage engineering scope, deliverables, priorities, and resource requirements.
• Ensure engineering activities are delivered in alignment with project objectives, schedules, budgets, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate engineering interfaces across all GCC disciplines.

Cost, Schedule & Resource Management

• Develop and maintain engineering schedules, resource plans, and delivery forecasts.
• Monitor engineering budgets, resource utilization, and delivery performance.
• Identify and manage delivery risks, resource constraints, and priority conflicts.
• Support project reporting, forecasting, and performance reviews.

Quality & Governance

• Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality, GMP, compliance, and business requirements.
• Coordinate design reviews, quality checks, and multidisciplinary reviews.
• Manage engineering change processes and design risk assessments.
• Drive delivery consistency, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary GCC interface for assigned projects and portfolios.
• Collaborate with Project Teams, Engineering Functions, Manufacturing Sites, and Business Stakeholders.
• Communicate project status, risks, priorities, resource requirements, and delivery commitments.
• Facilitate decision-making and resolution of cross-functional issues.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Promote digital engineering, standardization, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, quality, predictability, and efficiency.
• Support implementation of innovative engineering delivery approaches and tools.

Education, Behavioural Competencies and Skills:

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or related discipline.
• Master's Degree preferred.

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, design management, project delivery, or capital project environments.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering activities in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated industries.
• Experience managing engineering scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and quality.
• Experience across Concept, FEED, Detailed Design, and Project Delivery phases.

Behavioural Competencies

• Leadership and team coordination.
• Stakeholder management and influencing.
• Strategic thinking and decision making.
• Commercial and financial awareness.
• Risk management and problem solving.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Technical Skills

• Design Management and Engineering Delivery Management.
• Scope, Cost, Schedule, Resource, Risk, and Quality Management.
• Multidisciplinary engineering coordination.
• Engineering planning, forecasting, and performance management.
• Pharmaceutical capital project delivery.
• Engineering governance, change management, and reporting.
• Digital engineering and project management tools.

Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time