Senior Director, GCM & Portfolio Office

USA - 3310 Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda in Boston, MA seeks a Senior Director of GCM Program Management to lead enterprise initiatives with a focus on governance, planning, and execution. You will partner with senior stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into integrated programs, ensuring clear ownership, disciplined execution, and measurable impact.

You will drive risk and financial governance, deliver executive-ready materials, and enable critical decisions across multiple workstreams and geographies in a fast-moving

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience leading large-scale enterprise programs.
• Experience operating at senior leadership levels, influencing executive stakeholders and enabling decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning, governance, and execution of enterprise GCM initiatives with clear scope, milestones, and ownership.
• Partner with senior leaders to align priorities, resolve interdependencies, and accelerate decision-making across functions and geographies.
• Oversee portfolio-level risk, issue, dependency, and mitigation management, plus financial governance and business continuity planning.
• Develop executive-ready governance artifacts including integrated plans, dashboards, RAID logs, and status reports.

Skills

Executive leadership

Program governance

Cross-functional alignment

Risk management

Financial governance

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Certification in project/program/portfolio/change management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Takeda in Boston, MA seeks a Senior Director of GCM Program Management to lead enterprise initiatives with a focus on governance, planning, and execution. You will partner with senior stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into integrated programs, ensuring clear ownership, disciplined execution, and measurable impact.

You will drive risk and financial governance, deliver executive-ready materials, and enable critical decisions across multiple workstreams and geographies in a fast-moving