Job Description

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Job Description

A) Role Core Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

1- Scientific Leadership & Medical Expertise

• Serve as the scientific and medical expert for the assigned therapeutic area.
• Maintain deep understanding of disease areas, treatment paradigms, clinical evidence, healthcare landscape, and emerging scientific developments.
• Critically evaluate scientific literature, clinical data, and real-world evidence to support medical decision-making.
• Provide scientific expertise and medical guidance to internal and external stakeholders.

2- Scientific Exchange & External Stakeholder Engagement

• Establish, develop, and maintain credible, compliant, and long-term relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals, academic institutions, scientific societies, and other relevant external stakeholders.
• Lead high-quality scientific exchange activities and communicate complex medical information in a balanced, accurate, and compliant manner.
• Identify emerging scientific trends, unmet medical needs, and evolving stakeholder perspectives within the therapeutic area.
• Represent Takeda at scientific congresses, medical meetings, advisory boards, and other scientific engagement activities.

3- Medical Insights Generation

• Gather, analyse and communicate actionable medical insights from external stakeholders, scientific interactions, and healthcare environments.
• Translate medical insights into meaningful recommendations to support therapeutic area priorities, evidence generation plans, patient-focused initiatives, and business decision-making.
• Proactively identify scientific gaps, educational needs, and opportunities to improve patient care.

4- Evidence Generation & Medical Projects

• Support development and execution of evidence generation activities, including investigator-sponsored studies, real-world evidence initiatives, medical research collaborations, and scientific projects.
• Contribute medical expertise to study planning, execution, interpretation, and communication of scientific outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to generate meaningful scientific evidence addressing unmet patient needs.

5- Medical Education & Capability Building

• Develop and deliver scientific training and educational programs for internal stakeholders.
• Support capability building initiatives by providing therapeutic area expertise and scientific updates.
• Act as a medical resource for cross-functional teams and contribute to enhancing scientific knowledge across the organization.

6- Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Therapy Area Leads, Medical Excellence, Medical Affairs teams, Market Access, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Development, Commercial, Patient Services, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute medical expertise to cross-functional initiatives while ensuring alignment with medical and scientific priorities.
• Support launch readiness, lifecycle management activities, and patient-focused initiatives through scientific input and collaboration.

7- Patient & Healthcare Ecosystem Understanding

• Maintain strong understanding of patient journeys, healthcare systems, treatment pathways, and evolving clinical practice.
• Spend significant time engaging with healthcare stakeholders to better understand real-world clinical challenges and opportunities.
• Use healthcare ecosystem insights to support scientific priorities and improve patient outcomes.

8- Digital Innovation & Data Utilization

• Leverage scientific data, digital tools, and innovative approaches to enhance stakeholder engagement and medical impact.
• Utilize data-driven insights to support evidence-based decision-making and identify emerging opportunities.

9- Compliance, Ethics & Medical Governance

• Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, industry codes, Takeda policies, and medical governance standards.
• Maintain the highest standards of scientific integrity, ethics, and patient focus.
• Proactively identify and escalate compliance, quality, or ethical concerns through appropriate channels.

B) Role Mandatory Responsibilities:

• Adhere to Takeda’s Information Security and Technology Use policies.
• Serve as a Quality Ambassador by promptly reporting any product-related concerns to the Quality team.
• Uphold integrity and ethical conduct in alignment with Takeda’s values (Takeda-ism).
• Complete all mandatory trainings and ensure team compliance with relevant policies and procedures.
• Lead by example in the accurate and timely use of company systems (e.g., Concur, Dakika, Bloom), fostering process discipline across the team.
• Proactively raise compliance or ethical concerns through appropriate Takeda reporting channels.

C) Role required Qualifications & Capabilities

• University degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, or a related healthcare discipline.
• 3–5 years of relevant Medical Affairs experience within the pharmaceutical industry, including experience in Medical Affairs, Medical Science Liaison, Medical Advisor, Clinical Development, or a related medical role.
• Strong scientific knowledge and experience within Gastroenterology; experience in IBD is preferred.
• Strong understanding of healthcare regulations, GCP/GVP requirements, scientific exchange principles, and compliance standards.
• Fluent in English; proficiency in applicable local language(s) is an advantage.
• Ability and willingness to travel as required.

D) Capabilities

• Scientific & Medical Expertise
• Stakeholder Engagement & KOL Management
• Medical Insight Generation
• Evidence Generation & Research Support
• Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Communication & Presentation Skills
• Scientific Storytelling & Medical Education
• Project Leadership & Execution
• Ethics, Compliance & Medical Governance
• Digital & Data-Driven Mindset
• Agility & Adaptability
• Patient-Centric Thinking
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Locations

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time