Senior Medical Director, Oncology, Marketed Products Medical and Development

About the Role

The Senior Medical Director (SMD) in Global Clinical Science and Medical Affairs, Marketed Products Medical and Development (MPMD) in Global Medical leads and drives the scientific strategy for the overall global clinical development of marketed products taking into consideration the medical, scientific, regulatory and life‑cycle issues. Usually responsible for multiple products and at least one complex product. The SMD interacts and partners with MPMD Global Program Leads (GPLs), Global Project Managers (GPMs), R&D function subject matter experts (SMEs) — such as regulatory affairs, patient safety and pharmacovigilance, global development operations — to set clinical development strategy and priorities for assigned programs in MPMD. This individual is responsible for clinical scientific leadership for the assigned product‑specific global program teams (GPT) and/or PST. The SMD provides Medical Sponsor Oversight for clinical development programs in MPMD as part of the dedicated support to ensure the ability of Takeda to meet its corporate obligations as MAH for assigned products. The SMD provides clinical and scientific leadership to ensure that the GPT and Clinical Sub Team (CST) anticipates potential compliance risks and has appropriate contingency plans in place to allow the rapid response to regulatory agency, scientific, or commercial hurdles. The SMD will be required to be the clinical scientific expert for the assigned products and to develop and maintain an up‑to‑date expert knowledge of the scientific, clinical, and regulatory aspects of the products in order to provide support, guidance, mentoring and leadership across these areas.

Responsibilities

• Execute responsibilities in MPMD and undertake product lifecycle decisions based on Takeda’s PTRB framework (Patients, Trust, Reputation, Business), balancing patient needs, scientific integrity, stakeholder trust, corporate reputation, and business value to optimize outcomes across marketed products.
• Provide strategic leadership to GPTs, PSTs and/or CSTs through demonstration of Takeda’s Leadership Behaviors during clinical development of marketed products.
• Shape innovative clinical and scientific strategies by anticipating healthcare trends to maximize patient and business impact (Strategic Thinking).
• Drive cross‑functional execution of key scientific objectives, ensuring timely, high‑quality outcomes aligned with organizational priorities and goals (Delivering Priorities).
• Advance team excellence through innovation, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing (Elevate Capabilities).
• Influence and motivate diverse stakeholders through collaboration, clear communication, and a patient‑focused approach (Inspiring Others).
• Lead the application of appropriate AI tools, internal digital platforms and new technological skills to enhance the efficiency of Clinical Science (CS) related activities; explore and experiment with new ideas to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving field of technology, especially those most relevant to CS responsibilities.
• Collaborate closely with DD&T related functions to combine clinical science expertise with new technology expertise to develop innovative approaches for rapid evaluation and reporting of clinical trial data to facilitate quick and robust decision making.
• Form integrated partnerships with Global Program Leaders (GPL) and Global Project Management (GPM) to ensure excellence in delivery of medical and clinical support and execution of clinical development activities/studies across assigned products.
• Work effectively to support GPT/PST program goals, MPMD goals and Global Medical and corporate KPIs.
• Partner with Global Project Management (GPM) to coordinate R&D functional support for assigned products within the GPT or PST; provide clinical scientific leadership, expertise and execution for assigned products to support other R&D functional leads within the team.
• Establish integrated partnerships with R&D functional leads (e.g., regulatory affairs, patient safety & pharmacovigilance, global development operations, Statistics, QCP) on assigned teams to achieve alignment on strategy and achieve program team goals.
• Partner with Center for Post Approval Safety Studies team members during execution of PASS related responsibilities to achieve strategic alignment and assure adherence to compliance.
• Collaborate with the commercial organization, including MCE, OBU, IBU and USBU, as well as relevant Sub‑Teams to achieve team objectives; work directly with LOCs when required.
• Establish integrated partnerships and collaboration with all relevant cross‑divisional stakeholders involved in the support of assigned products, including but not limited to Quality, Global Manufacturing and Supply, Medical Affairs (Global and Regional), Evidence Generation/GEO/HEOR, Global Commercial, LOC MDs, Regional Business Units (e.g., product brand leads) and LOC product leads.
• Drive clinical scientific activities relating to the preparation/approval of synopses and protocols and the conduct of clinical studies to support LCM, post marketing requirements and regional or local registration as needed; provide Takeda oversight of strategic partner MDs/clinical staff involved in these activities.
• Be accountable for the successful design, execution and interpretation of clinical studies.
• Establish integrated partnership with clinical operations and statistical functional leads to ensure the integrity and correctness of data analysis and interpretation with the appropriate integration of safety and efficacy data from clinical studies longitudinally and cross‑sectionally in support of regulatory submissions, ensuring data quality and adherence to national and international regulations and requirements and ICH.
• Establish integrated partnership with strategic vendor partners and provide oversight of all strategic vendor partners for all clinical deliverables for assigned products; ensure highest quality of clinical science input and clinical components of deliverables from the strategic vendor partner.
• Oversee strategic vendor partner(s) to ensure appropriate and continuous medical monitoring and medical data review of clinical studies, protecting the safety of patients within the study; responsible for internal oversight of strategic vendor partner medical monitoring activities, assessing issues related to protocol