Job Description

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About the Role

Provide enterprise-level medical subject matter expertise to safeguard scientific rigor, non-promotional standards, and regulatory alignment across medical content produced within the vendor ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

• Medical content oversight: Oversee the end-to-end medical content development process for all channels, ensuring alignment withstrategic input from Medical Affairs​

• Partner management: Manage and collaborate with medical content agency partners across creation, adaptation, and derivativeasset production, ensuring adherence to quality standards, compliance requirements, and process efficiency​

• Medical review and compliance oversight: Ensure clear review pathways, predictable timelines, and accountability for the approvaland dissemination of medical content​

• Agile delivery and workflow management: Project manage sprint planning and execution; resolve blockers to ensure timelydelivery of medical content within pod-based teams​

• Data management: Establish expectations and maintain oversight for medical content tagging, content management, performancemeasurement / tracking readiness, ensuring medical content is organized and accessible for future use​

• Medical leadership engagement: Participate in Medical Affairs strategy sessions and leadership team discussions to align medicalcontent priorities, plans, and performance with broader organizational objectives

Qualifications and essential experience, attributes, skills, and knowledge​

• Bachelor’s degreerequired,Preferred Advanced degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related).

• 5–8+years' experience in medical affairs, medicalcommunications, orscientific strategy in the pharma or healthcare sector​

• Experience supporting congresses, MSL materials, and scientificexchange​

• Strong scientific rigor and integrity​

• Detail-oriented and compliance-focused mindset​

• Collaborative and enterprise-minded, comfortableinfluencingwithout direct authority​

• Skilled at navigating Medical and Commercial priorities

• Excellent communication skills, capable of ensuring clarity andunderstanding of complex medical topics​

• Science-backed perspective, incl. ability to validate scientific data, conduct medical content review, and advise on compliance​

• Risk identification and mitigation

• Deep understanding of FDA/EMA medical communication guidelines and compliance frameworks​

• Understanding of procurement processes and vendor management operations

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:

$151,100.00 - $237,490.00

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

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.