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Job DescriptionAbout the Role:
As the Associate Director of HCP Branded Strategy and Marketing, you will be a champion of Takeda’s culture and values while leading the HCP branded strategy for an upcoming launch. This pivotal role blends strategic vision, data-driven leadership, and a deep understanding of HCPs behavior to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
The ideal candidate combines strong HCP marketing and strategy development with a mindset of curiosity and adaptability, proactively embracing innovation to drive both efficiency and innovation. You will partner cross-functionally across HCP, Consumer, Field Teams, and other cross-functional teams to bring to life a seamless, insight-based marketing ecosystem that motivates HCPs and drives brand success. This candidate will report to the Director of HCP Marketing.
How you will contribute:
Strategic Leadership
- Oversee end-to-end brand management, ensuring alignment with business objectives and HCP priorities.
- Lead creation, development, and delivery of core brand materials including message development
- Serve as the HCP branded strategy lead during annual planning cycles, collaborating with cross-functional teams and aligning objectives.
- Partner with the Medical Commercial team on HCP advisory board to identify opportunities for improved HCP engagement and ensure alignment with field feedback.
Innovation & Insight
- Partner with Analytics and Insights team to turn insights into actionable growth strategies and executive-level reporting.
- Foster a strong partnership with the medical team to ensure medical accuracy and compliance in promotional activities.
- Evaluate performance through campaign measurement frameworks and optimize based on ROI, marketing mix model, and other analytics.
Team & Agency Leadership
- Manage the branded marketing budget and external agency relationships, ensuring efficiency and value.
- Provide leadership and direction within cross-functional teams, effectively guiding initiatives and peers even when not in a formal management position.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least 5-10 years of marketing in the healthcare industry with increasing responsibilities in sales or related functions Healthcare related experience
- Deep understanding of the brand/franchise, and how to effectively engage HCPs
- Extensive experience in marketing strategy and tactic design
- Experience leading cross-functional and agency teams and managing large budgets.
- Strong strategic, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated leadership, business acumen and ability to manage multiple priorities, processes, timelines and expectations of multiple stakeholder groups.
- Capable of leveraging data and analytics to distill insights and drive data-based decision making.
- A demonstrated ability to process complex information and summarize it concisely in a professional manner and in a time sensitive environment is required.
- Demonstrated comfort with emerging technologies, adaptability to new digital tools, and openness to adopting AI-enabled processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness for customers.
Desired
- MBA
- Prior pharma launch experience
- Commercial experience in dermatology or immunology an asset (e.g., Psoriasis)
More about us:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
This position is currently classified as "hybrid" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.
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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:
USA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500U.S. Base Salary Range:
$154,400.00 - $242,550.00The 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.
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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.
LocationsUSA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500Worker TypeEmployeeWorker Sub-TypeFixed Term (Fixed Term)Time TypeFull timeJob Exempt
YesIt 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.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 5-10 years of healthcare industry marketing experience with increasing responsibilities in sales or related functions
- Healthcare-related experience
- Deep understanding of brand or franchise management and effective HCP engagement
- Extensive experience in marketing strategy and tactic design
- Experience leading cross-functional and agency teams and managing large budgets
- Strong strategic, analytical, and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Leadership, business acumen, and ability to manage multiple priorities, processes, timelines, and stakeholder expectations
- Ability to leverage data and analytics for insights and data-based decision-making
- Ability to process complex information and summarize it concisely in a professional, time-sensitive environment
- Comfort with emerging technologies, adaptability to digital tools, and openness to AI-enabled processes
- MBA
- Prior pharmaceutical launch experience
- Commercial experience in dermatology or immunology
Takeda Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Takeda and has not been reviewed or approved by Takeda.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded retirement is described as notably strong, combining a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match with an additional company contribution that scales with age and service. Access to an employee stock purchase plan further supports long-term wealth building.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid bonding leave for all parents, substantial adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, and robust caregiver resources (backup care and Maven family-forming support) are emphasized as core strengths. These offerings create a comprehensive safety net for a range of family situations.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (nationwide PPO/HSA and regional HMOs), employer HSA funding, and integrated mental-health and well-being programs signal depth in coverage. Preventive care is covered in-network, and plan choices by state expand access.
Takeda Insights
What We Do
For over 240 years, Takeda’s propensity to evolve has driven the next generation of innovation, and as a future-focused organization, we’re continuing to drive forward with endurance in our steadfast pursuit to achieve the best outcomes for our patients in a rapidly changing world. We have been preparing for this period of value creation by investing in data, digital and technology, and we’re proud of our employees and their commitment to turning groundbreaking ideas into life-changing impacts. Since our founding in Japan, integrity and putting patients first have been at the heart of our identity, and we will emerge ready for our future as one of the most trusted and science-driven digital biopharmaceutical companies. Join a team where your innovation impacts lives. Together, we’ll realize improved outcomes by improving data quality, enhancing launch execution and improving the patient journey. You’ll play a critical role in accelerating data collection and increasing accuracy across all parts of the business. Patients across the globe will benefit from access to treatments afforded by greater opportunities and efficiency in our research and development.
Why Work With Us
We connect to our history and Japanese heritage through everything we do to bring our purpose, values, vision, and imperatives to life. We are committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients. Being a part of Takeda means having the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than yourself.
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