Portfolio Lead

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 154,400 - 242,550; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

Takeda in Boston, MA, is seeking a Portfolio Lead to manage the USBU and OBU DD&T run and investment portfolio, focusing on value realization and governance. You will lead planning cycles, tradeoff analyses, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize investments and drive enterprise value.

The role requires 10+ years in technology/consulting/pharma, experience with portfolio governance, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in technology, consulting, pharmaceuticals or a similar field.
• Prior consulting experience preferred.
• Proven experience managing enterprise or technology portfolios in a matrixed organization.
• Proficiency in portfolio management tools.
• Experience designing and facilitating governance forums and portfolio review cadences.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated run and investment portfolio across USBU and OBU DD&T, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and currency of all portfolio data.
• Track portfolio health and status across the full lifecycle, from ideation through delivery and value realization.
• Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards and reporting to provide leadership with clear visibility into portfolio performance.
• Define and monitor value realization frameworks and KPIs for active portfolio investments.
• Partner with product and delivery teams to capture and report benefits against committed business cases.
• Flag at-risk investments and drive corrective action in partnership with stakeholders.
• Lead the USBU and OBU DD&T portfolio contribution to annual and mid-year business planning cycles, coordinating inputs across the team.
• Manage demand intake and prioritization processes, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives.
• Optimize the portfolio through scenario planning and capacity analysis to maximize return on investment.
• Prepare and facilitate portfolio review forums, including materials, decision packages, and tradeoff analyses for leadership.
• Enable data-driven prioritization and tradeoff decisions by presenting clear options with risk, cost, and value implications.
• Maintain governance cadence and ensure follow-through on portfolio decisions.
• Represent USBU and OBU DD&T in enterprise-level portfolio forums and workstreams.
• Identify and surface portfolio synergies across business units to reduce duplication and optimize shared investments.
• Align USBU and OBU DD&T portfolio processes, tools, and ways of working with enterprise and centralized DD&T standards.
• Continuously improve portfolio management processes, tools, and templates to increase efficiency and consistency.
• Serve as the subject matter expert on portfolio management methodology for the DD&T organization.
• Support the Head of Portfolio Strategy & Operational Excellence in building and maturing the portfolio operating model.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

Portfolio management tools

Job description

Job Description

As the Portfolio Lead for the joint USBU and OBU DD&T organization, you will report into the Head of Portfolio Strategy and Operational Excellence. In this role, you will be accountable for managing the run and investment portfolio across the USBU and OBU DD&T organization, focusing primarily on value realization, optimization of portfolio through business process planning cycles, and enablement of portfolio tradeoff decisions within the governance forums. You will represent USBU and OBU DD&T in enterprise portfolio forums and workstreams with a focus on identifying portfolio synergies and aligning processes, tools, and ways of working.

Portfolio Management

• Own and maintain the integrated run and investment portfolio across USBU and OBU DD&T, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and currency of all portfolio data


• Track portfolio health and status across the full lifecycle, from ideation through delivery and value realization


• Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards and reporting to provide leadership with clear visibility into portfolio performance.

Value Realization

• Define and monitor value realization frameworks and KPIs for active portfolio investments.


• Partner with product and delivery teams to capture and report benefits against committed business cases.


• Flag at‑risk investments and drive corrective action in partnership with stakeholders.

Planning Cycle Management

• Lead the USBU and OBU DD&T portfolio contribution to annual and mid‑year business planning cycles, coordinating inputs across the team.


• Manage demand intake and prioritization processes, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives.


• Optimize the portfolio through scenario planning and capacity analysis to maximize return on investment.

Governance & Decision Enablement

• Prepare and facilitate portfolio review forums, including materials, decision packages, and tradeoff analyses for leadership.


• Enable data‑driven prioritization and tradeoff decisions by presenting clear options with risk, cost, and value implications.


• Maintain governance cadence and ensure follow‑through on portfolio decisions.

Enterprise Portfolio Representation

• Represent USBU and OBU DD&T in enterprise‑level portfolio forums and workstreams.


• Identify and surface portfolio synergies across business units to reduce duplication and optimize shared investments.


• Align USBU and OBU DD&T portfolio processes, tools, and ways of working with enterprise and centralized DD&T standards.

Process & Operational Excellence

• Continuously improve portfolio management processes, tools, and templates to increase efficiency and consistency.


• Serve as the subject matter expert on portfolio management methodology for the DD&T organization.


• Support the Head of Portfolio Strategy & Operational Excellence in building and maturing the portfolio operating model.

Education, Behavioural Competencies and Skills

• Bachelor's Degree is required, MBA preferred


• 10+ years of experience in technology, consulting, pharmaceuticals or similar field


• Prior consulting experience preferred


• Proven experience managing enterprise or technology portfolios in a matrixed organization


• Proficiency in portfolio management tools


• Experience designing and facilitating governance forums and portfolio review cadences


• Ability to develop decision‑ready materials and tradeoff frameworks for senior leadership


• Knowledge of enterprise portfolio management standards and best practices


• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to building trust, listen, and ask effective questions.

More about us

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient‑focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life‑changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

This position is currently classified as \"hybrid\" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

For Location:
Boston, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:
$154,400.00 - $242,550.00

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. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short‑term and/or long‑term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well‑being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

EEO Statement

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Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub‑Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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