About the Company

As a global medical device company originating from Japan, we pursue reliable quality and technology to contribute to healthcare in more than 160 countries and regions around the globe. We promise to walk alongside healthcare professionals to continue to make great contribution to society, now and into the future.

Role Summary

The Project Manager role is responsible for driving project governance, portfolio visibility, execution excellence, stakeholder alignment, and benefits realisation across cross-functional initiatives. The role will also contribute to building project management capabilities across TAP and support the future development of a Process Improvement function.

The Project Manager partners with TAP Leadership, business functions heads, regional teams, and entities to ensure strategic projects are delivered on time, within scope, within budget, and with measurable business outcomes.

Key Functions / Responsibilities

Strategic Project Delivery

• Lead regional strategic and transformation projects from initiation through implementation and closure.
• Develop project charters, business cases, project plans, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives.
• Ensure project milestones, deliverables, risks, and dependencies are actively managed.
• Drive successful implementation of GS31 Key Success Factor (KSF) initiatives and other regional priorities.
• Build strong partnerships with functional leaders across Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Regulatory, Quality, and Information Technology.
• Engage project sponsors and stakeholders to ensure alignment of expectations and outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops, planning sessions, and executive reviews.
• Communicate project progress, risks, achievements, and recommendations to leadership teams.

Portfolio and Governance Management

• Maintain visibility of the TAP project portfolio and provide regular reporting to executive leadership.
• Facilitate project steering committee meetings and governance reviews.
• Monitor project performance using established KPIs and reporting frameworks.
• Ensure appropriate escalation of issues and decision-making requirements.
• Support prioritisation of project requests based on strategic objectives and resource availability.
• Track project outcomes and business benefits.
• Develop executive dashboards and portfolio performance reports.
• Measure achievement of strategic and operational objectives.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and applied across projects.

Process Improvement and Business Transformation

• Collaborate with business functions to identify opportunities for process optimisation and operational efficiency.
• Facilitate process mapping, analysis, and redesign activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives leveraging process improvement methodologies.
• Contribute to establishing future Process Improvement capabilities within TAP.Create and maintain detailed documentation of Data and BI processes and procedures
• Maintain strong working knowledge of the current ELT and BI platforms and understand the Microsoft roadmap and its impact to our business

Key Technical / Functional Competencies

• Exposure to process improvement, Lean, or operational excellence programmes.
• Portfolio management and governance experience.
• Experience supporting digital transformation initiatives.

Education & Experience

• 7+ years of project or programme management experience.
• Proven experience managing cross-functional regional or global projects.
• Experience establishing or working within a PMO environment.
• Experience in healthcare, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or regulated industries.
• Demonstrated experience in business transformation, organisational change, or strategic initiatives.
• Experience working within matrix and multicultural organisations.
• Strong stakeholder management at senior leadership levels.
• Experience supporting multiple sites, timezones and languages.
• A high level of confidentiality is expected.