Design Delivery Lead
Takeda · Bengaluru
Job Description
Objectives / Purpose:
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across assigned projects and portfolios.
- Ensure engineering scope, cost, schedule, resources, quality, and deliverables are effectively planned, managed, and delivered.
- Drive integration across engineering disciplines to ensure consistent, efficient, and high-quality design solutions.
- Support engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with business, project, quality, and regulatory requirements.
Accountabilities:
Design Delivery Management:
- Accountable for planning, coordinating, and managing multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across assigned projects and portfolios.
- Manage engineering scope, deliverables, priorities, and resource requirements.
- Ensure engineering activities are delivered in alignment with project objectives, schedules, budgets, and quality expectations.
- Coordinate engineering interfaces across all GCC disciplines.
Cost, Schedule & Resource Management
- Develop and maintain engineering schedules, resource plans, and delivery forecasts.
- Monitor engineering budgets, resource utilization, and delivery performance.
- Identify and manage delivery risks, resource constraints, and priority conflicts.
- Support project reporting, forecasting, and performance reviews.
Quality & Governance
- Ensure engineering deliverables meet quality, GMP, compliance, and business requirements.
- Coordinate design reviews, quality checks, and multidisciplinary reviews.
- Manage engineering change processes and design risk assessments.
- Drive delivery consistency, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities.
Stakeholder Management
- Serve as the primary GCC interface for assigned projects and portfolios.
- Collaborate with Project Teams, Engineering Functions, Manufacturing Sites, and Business Stakeholders.
- Communicate project status, risks, priorities, resource requirements, and delivery commitments.
- Facilitate decision-making and resolution of cross-functional issues.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Promote digital engineering, standardization, and best practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, quality, predictability, and efficiency.
- Support implementation of innovative engineering delivery approaches and tools.
Education, Behavioural Competencies and Skills:
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or related discipline.
- Master's Degree preferred.
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, design management, project delivery, or capital project environments.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering activities in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated industries.
- Experience managing engineering scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and quality.
- Experience across Concept, FEED, Detailed Design, and Project Delivery phases.
Behavioural Competencies
- Leadership and team coordination.
- Stakeholder management and influencing.
- Strategic thinking and decision making.
- Commercial and financial awareness.
- Risk management and problem solving.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Technical Skills
- Design Management and Engineering Delivery Management.
- Scope, Cost, Schedule, Resource, Risk, and Quality Management.
- Multidisciplinary engineering coordination.
- Engineering planning, forecasting, and performance management.
- Pharmaceutical capital project delivery.
- Engineering governance, change management, and reporting.
- Digital engineering and project management tools.