About the Role
Provide enterprise-level commercial subject matter expertise to ensure promotional content, campaigns, and agency outputs align with brand strategy, customer engagement priorities, regulatory standards, and commercial objectives.
Responsibilities
- Commercial standards: Define and maintain enterprise commercial content standards, including messaging frameworks, brand voice, and omnichannel alignment expectations
- Cross-functional guidance: Act as SMEs to advise other brand, marketing, content operations teams on vendor selection / management / relationships, setting and enforcing best practices to ensure commercial objectives are reflected consistently across campaigns and asset portfolios
- Strategic content oversight: Provide expert review and guidance on high-impact promotional materials to ensure alignment with brand strategy, customer journey objectives across HCP and DTC, lifecycle stage priorities, and field execution needs
- Agency governance: Partner with Agency Performance Managers to evaluate agency commercial quality, provide feedback on creative and strategic outputs, and drive corrective action when standards are not met
- Capability development: Contribute to development of commercial playbooks, launch excellence standards, and training materials for brand teams and agencies
Qualifications and Essential Experience, Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge
- Bachelor’s degree required, Preferred Advanced degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related)
- 5–8+ years' experience in commercial strategy, marketing operations, or agency management in the pharma or healthcare sector
- Direct ownership of HCP and/or DTC campaigns
- Direct experience working in regulated pharma environments
- Brand-focused and customer-centric mindset
- High accountability for quality, compliance, and cost efficiency
- Collaborative and enterprise-minded, comfortable influencing without direct authority
- Skilled at navigating Medical and Commercial priorities
- Excellent communication skills, capable of ensuring clarity and understanding across diverse markets and stakeholders
- Cross-functional stakeholder management and alignment
- Strong knowledge of marketing strategy, including omnichannel activation and HCP and DTC engagement models
- Understanding of modular content and asset reuse methodologies
Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.
For Location:
Lexington, MA
U.S. Base Salary Range:
$137,000.00 - $215,270.00
The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
EEO Statement
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.
Locations
Lexington, MA
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Job Exempt
Yes
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Company
For over 240 years, Takeda’s propensity to evolve has driven the next generation of innovation. Today, our organization spans the globe—colleagues across business units and functions face challenges head-on to deliver life-transforming treatments, guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet.
As a values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader headquartered in Japan, we focus our R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Genetics and Hematology, Neuroscience, and Gastroenterology (GI). We also make targeted R&D investments in Plasma-Derived Therapies and Vaccines. In addition to our R&D efforts, we’re laser-focused on harnessing the power of data, digital, and technology to improve health outcomes for patients across the globe.
Since our founding in Japan, integrity and putting patients first have been at the heart of our identity. We're proud of our employees and their commitment to improving the quality of life for patients, and to working with our partners in health care in approximately 80 countries and regions. With each new breakthrough comes opportunities to develop your career, hone new skills, and create a brighter future
For more information, visit https://jobs.takeda.com/