IT Project Leader

**Job Title**:IT Project Leader
**Location**:Singapore

**About the role**:

- Leads and manages multiple site projects (local & globally initiated). This role coordinates, supports, and assists all aspects of these projects from original concept through the final implementation, ensuring governance process adherence, budget management, project continuity, and stakeholder management.
- Drives business value by leveraging business/technology expertise to identify and prioritize solutions, and by collaborating across departments to deliver multiple complex projects with significant business impact.
**How you will contribute**:

- Manage all aspects of IT projects or programs (local and globally initiated), including monitoring scope, milestones, dependencies, costs, and benefits through lifecycle.
- Develop project or program budgets. Responsible for performance against financial parameters and monitoring and reporting on projects or programs.
- Create project artifacts, such as project plans, measures, team and stakeholder communications, resource plan and time management.
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with key customers, vendors and suppliers. Manage key stakeholder and project manager commitment levels and communication. Facilitate vendor and supplier evaluations.
- Ensure projects follow all company and departmental policies, procedures, and standards.
- Identify and highlight risks and issues within the project and escalate appropriately. Devise effective mitigation and escalation strategies for projects to address risks and issues.
- Lead governance structures and processes to drive and manage the project. Manage implementation of project management methodology and governance tools. Drive projects through project governance methodology and ensure compliance to tollgates.
- Lead regular project and program reviews with Project Managers and stakeholders.
- Responsibility to adhere to any applicable EHS requirements.
- Commitment to a fair and respectful relationship to others and behavior in accordance to Takeda’s Code of Conduct.
- Any other duties as assigned by supervisor
**What you bring to Takeda**:
**Education and Experience Requirements**
- Minimum 6 years of IT experience with Bachelors Degree or 10 years IT experience without Bachelors Degree.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience leading small-midsized IT projects.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook).
Ability to write and speak in the English language
- Pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.
- Certified project management professional (PMP or Prince 2) preferred.
- Experience with Agile Development Methodology preferred.
**Key Skills and Competencies**:

- Good communication & interpersonal skills.
- Ability to influence, negotiate and resolve conflicts
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix team environment, building commitment within the team.
- Maturity to accept direction, confidence to give direction.
- Analytical, proactive and must project good positive attitude.
- Willingness to perform multitasks and deliver good quality results.
- Matured, able to work under pressure and tight schedule, resourceful, self-driven with strong sense of commitment.
- Familiar with IT platforms architecture and methodologies.
**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.

**Empowering our people to shine**:
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

**Locations**:
SGP - Singapore - Woodlands
**Worker Type**:
Employee
**Worker Sub-Type**:
Regular
**Time Type**:
Full time