The R&D; Transition Lead is accountable for end-to-end delivery of R&D; transition waves, ensuring that scope, timelines, stage-gate criteria, and execution commitments are met. The role serves as the primary bridge between R&D; business stakeholders and GCM delivery teams, owning functional readiness from design validation through stabilization, aligning business requirements with GCM execution standards, and ensuring continuity of critical R&D; operations throughout the transition. Accountabilities:

- Transition Approach & Design Validation: Work closely with R&D; business stakeholders to define and validate transition and transformation scope, build impact assessment and ensuring clarity on key responsibilities and actions
- Wave Ownership & Execution: Own end-to-end delivery of the assigned transition wave, ensuring scope, timelines, and commitments are met
- Functional Accountability: Ensure continuity of critical business operations during transition
- Knowledge Transfer & Readiness: Ensure availability of SMEs and timely completion of KT activities, documentation, and sign-offs
- Stakeholder & Governance Management: Work with BU/BF's to measure outcome and adoption and mitigate issues. Support stage-gate reviews and provide inputs for go/no-go decision
- Stabilization & Business-as-Usual transition: Oversee stabilization and hypercare activities to ensure service performance meets agreed SLAs and KPIs

Experience





- 12+ years of experience in business operations, functional leadership, shared services, or large-scale transformation programs within global organizations
- Strong executive communication and decision-making capabilities in ambiguous transformation environments
- Proven experience leading end-to-end transition waves or major operational change initiatives, covering transition planning, knowledge transfer, ramp-up, go-live, and stabilization phases

Technical Competencies

- Robust understanding of transition methodologies and frameworks or project management experience for large transformations
- Solid financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to manage transition costs, assumptions, and value realization

Behavioral Competencies

- Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills within highly matrixed, global organizations
- Ability to manage competing priorities and drive execution in complex, time-sensitive transitions
- Results-oriented mindset with strong attention to delivery commitments and accountability

Education

Bachelors degree required

Languages

Fluent in English

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📌 GCM Transition Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Takeda Pharma Vertrieb
📍 Bengaluru