• Spearheaded full-lifecycle product development, hiring, and team building in a high-growth environment.
• Cultivated collaborations with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment of strategies with business objectives.
• Implemented standardized project management tools, reducing manual processes by 30% and enhancing efficiency.

• Led strategic planning to consolidate spending and buying in the US region with 10% cost optimization potential from $500 million annual spend.
• Identified and rolled out cost optimization projects across the US region, enabling contract value optimization for spending above $100K.
• Partnered with Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Senior Directors, Directors, and functional leads to drive strategic sourcing and supply management.
• Individual contributor role, global scope, and managed total expenditure of $200-$500M.

• As an essential member of the OBU leadership, oversaw cross-functional initiatives. Directed every aspect of procurement operations to support business continuity.
• Optimized the profitability of the project management office to meet or exceed budget targets.
• Directed managed 10-member team and ensured collaboration between global business partners, category managers, and regional/BU leadership.

• Led key projects across several workstreams within the Global Product Safety organization to improve global product complaint and adverse event information collection processes, managing PMs and project teams.
• Designed projects for combination products through end-to-end lifecycle management, resulting in cutting-edge AI automation-driven solutions, and is at the forefront of the industry.

• Envisioned, developed, and executed a project plan for a state-of-the-art AI-driven data lake for cross-function use. Shared interim views and ensured appropriate incorporation of feedback into goals and deliverables.
• I designed and implemented team development programs and employee-focused initiatives to optimize the engagement of team members. Supported IND-enabling studies and clinical trials.
• Developed and continuously improved external innovation and business development processes to enable critical business intelligence data availability across the organization.

• Designed and implemented medical affairs launch activities for Alzheimer's disease therapeutic in the US region. Actively hired and trained medical directors and field medical staff to support the launch.
• Led data analytics and reporting functions, ensuring timely report delivery. Devised and wrote a new comprehensive KPI dashboard for leadership, reducing cycle time by 30% and improving KOL satisfaction scores by 15%.
• Expanded and enhanced supplier programs, which drove impactful collaborations with internal teams to bridge and generate reports with the new data warehouse and analytics system and the new CMI-led reporting system.

• Managed clinical and pre-clinical programs (pre-IND and post-IND) leveraging RWE for actionable insights.
• Increased operational efficiency by 15% through the implementation of a PMO Center of Excellence.
• Reduced project setup times by 50% via innovative planning and training.

• Embraced project management and data/system expertise to support Takeda's process improvement goals, focusing on a Single Source of Truth (SSoT) data model and operational effectiveness.
• Audited R&D data and developed an Asset MDM structure-governance for the future state—planned and developed critical initiatives for PMO Community of Practice and PM Best Practices guidance.
• Completed multiple complex project initiatives across workstreams in alignment with the PMO/PPM/R&D strategy and roadmap.