Senior Transition Wave Manager - Drive End-to-End Change

Takeda; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 267,000 - 368,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

Takeda in Lodz, Poland is seeking a Senior Transition Wave Manager to drive end-to-end transition waves, coordinate across planning, knowledge transfer, and ramp-up phases, and ensure continuity of critical operations.

You will partner with the Transition Functional Lead and Global Capability Model teams to deliver compliant, timely wave executions in a hybrid work environment. English fluency is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in project management, program management, transition management, or operational change initiatives within global organizations.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end transition waves or major operational change initiatives.
• Strong project management skills, including critical path and integrated plans.
• Ability to apply transition methods and frameworks including knowledge transfer and stage-gate governance.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end execution of transition waves, ensuring scope, timelines, milestones, and issues stay on track.
• Maintain detailed wave plans across knowledge transfer, ramp-up, go-live, and stabilization.
• Track and report wave progress, risks, and issues to leadership and teams.
• Coordinate with business units, SMEs, site leads, and delivery teams for all wave activities.
• Support wave-grade reviews and provide status input for go/no-go decisions.
• Coordinate wave-level hypercare and stabilization to meet SLAs and KPIs.

Skills

Project management

Program management

Transition management

Operational change

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Takeda in Lodz, Poland is seeking a Senior Transition Wave Manager to drive end-to-end transition waves, coordinate across planning, knowledge transfer, and ramp-up phases, and ensure continuity of critical operations.

You will partner with the Transition Functional Lead and Global Capability Model teams to deliver compliant, timely wave executions in a hybrid work environment. English fluency is required.