Senior Transition Waves Lead — End-to-End Change Programs

Takeda; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 208,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda in Lodz, Poland is seeking a Transition Wave Senior Manager to drive end-to-end transition waves within the assigned business scope. You will coordinate planning, knowledge transfer, and ramp-up activities, and ensure timely execution with escalation when needed.

You will collaborate with the Transition Functional Lead and Global Capability Model teams to maintain compliant transitions and protect continuity of critical operations. Fluency in English and a bachelor’s degree are preferred.

Qualifications

• 7+ years 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 across planning, knowledge transfer, ramp-up, go-live, stabilization, and cutover phases.
• Strong project management skills, including critical path management and integrated transition and wave plans.
• Ability to apply transition methods and frameworks, including knowledge transfer, readiness assessments, and stage-gate governance.
• Financial and commercial understanding, with the ability to manage transition costs, assumptions, and value realization.
• Strong coordination and organization skills to manage multiple workstreams in a matrix organization.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end execution of transition waves with scope, timelines, milestones, and issue resolution.
• Maintain detailed wave plans across knowledge transfer, ramp-up, go-live, and stabilization.
• Track and report wave progress, risks, and issues to stakeholders and teams.
• Support continuity of critical business operations across the assigned wave.
• Own wave-level activity tracking and milestone delivery within scope and timeline.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer activities to align with wave milestones.
• Monitor knowledge transfer completion rates and documentation sign-offs.
• Escalate delays or readiness gaps to the Transition team.
• Serve as day-to-day coordinator between business units, subject matter experts, site leads, and Global Capability Model teams.
• Support stage-gate reviews and provide wave-level input for go/no-go decisions.
• Coordinate wave-level hypercare and stabilization to monitor service performance against SLAs and KPIs.
• Assist handover of wave activities into steady-state operations.
• Identify root causes to support process improvement.

Skills

Project management

Transition management

Governance

Cross-functional coordination

Communication

Analytical thinking

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Job description

Takeda in Lodz, Poland is seeking a Transition Wave Senior Manager to drive end-to-end transition waves within the assigned business scope. You will coordinate planning, knowledge transfer, and ramp-up activities, and ensure timely execution with escalation when needed.

You will collaborate with the Transition Functional Lead and Global Capability Model teams to maintain compliant transitions and protect continuity of critical operations. Fluency in English and a bachelor’s degree are preferred.