Leads Japan product strategy and integrated planning across multiple projects and indications, aligning with global teams and embedding Japan specific medical needs, regulatory pathways, and market dynamics. Ensures effective Japan Product Team (JPT) governance, proactive risk and opportunity management, and robust launch readiness. May lead multi product programs when assigned.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
Project Manager Role:
• Product strategy and planning: Co develop Japan product strategy and options with the JPT; drive scenario and option analyses including sequencing and bundling; align with global; ensure early, ongoing collaboration with Commercial and Medical
• Integrated plan and delivery: Build and maintain cross project plans tied to product objectives; manage critical paths and dependencies; deliver against time, quality, budget, and strategy
• Risk and decision cadence: Lead product and project risk management with registers and mitigations; design and operate JPT governance with clear decision rights, escalation, and stakeholder engagement including the GPT and governance bodies
• Data and performance: Ensure Planit and reporting data quality to enable data driven decisions; support team performance and retrospectives

Program manager role (if assigned):
• Facilitate TA level strategy and cross project risk and resource alignment; maximize value for multi product programs such as cell therapy

Organizational development:
• Share best practices, build PM capabilities, support functional initiatives, and represent PM in key business improvements and training

Experience

Mandatory

Required Experience:
• Leadership and project management in multi disciplinary drug development; end to end knowledge of development, regulatory pathways, and launch readiness

Nice to have

Preferred Experience:
• Drug development outside Japan; product level strategy across multiple projects including sequencing and bundling for JNDA; early Commercial and Medical collaboration; PMDA engagements including JPRS; JNDA strategy.

License

Mandatory

Education:
• Bachelor of Science in an appropriate discipline

Nice to have

PMP, MBA

Skill-set

Mandatory

• Strategic influencing and decisive leadership that challenge assumptions, manage ambiguity, and drive strategy through to execution
• Collaboration within a matrixed organization to motivate teams and enable balanced decision-making
• Project management excellence in facilitation and governance design including core and extended team participation, decision rights, delegation, and escalation; proficiency with relevant tools and techniques

Nice to have

• Effective problem and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to apply AI and automation to project management 

Languages

Mandatory

Japanese: native equivalent/ business level
English：Business level English
 

Location

Osaka or Tokyo

Date Posted

Closing Date

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