Associate Director, Scientific & Analysis, Global Oncology

Associate Director, Scientific & Competitive Analysis, Global Oncology

Cambridge, MA

This position will be responsible for consulting with Commercial and R&D teams as a strategic partner in achieving and maintaining competitive leadership. The role will be leading, creating and delivering integrated insights across multiple sources. The position is expected to bring competitive analysis consulting expertise with strong leadership in market analysis, brand planning, situation analysis, project management and cross-functional alignment skills.

The role will also serve as a Competitive Intelligence (CI) function expert to Commercial and R&D organizations to provide competitive landscaping and analysis to inform brand strategies, clinical development strategies for pipeline, disease area strategies and Business Development and external partnership opportunities.

• Engage consultative influence
• Create cross‑source insights, recommendations and alignment for action
• Develop competitive landscape analysis, business need understanding, knowledge gap identification, primary and/or secondary CI to fill prioritized gaps
• Communicate those integrated insights to relevant stakeholders across Takeda with urgency
• Leverage data and specialty expertise in Competitive Intelligence external analysis, with internal market planning, business development, strategic or tactical work streams for long‑term and short‑term impact.

Responsibilities associated with commercial insights include leading cross‑functional teams in predicting and planning solutions to achieve successful execution, driving the team to achieve clarity on issues and action. This requires the ability to exercise decisiveness in selecting critical strategic elements of executive decisions, collaboration and alignment in methods for study of strategic elements, prioritization of competing strategic/tactical needs, strong budget/scope/program management, strong consultative influence skills, strong skills in identifying competitive strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Advanced understanding of CI processes, methods, industry ethics and compliance, and specialty biologics is required, as well as bench strengths in CI execution for strategic‑to‑tactical recommendations.

• Proactively identify strategic and tactical CI needs of brands and pipeline, establishing both long‑range and short‑term business impact.
• Collaboratively prioritise and build a CI plan (KITs, KIQs), integrated with primary market research, analytics and cross‑functional teams.
• Lead the coordination, planning and execution of competitive coverage at assigned conferences.
• Provide brand partners with actionable intelligence about the competitive environment with a focus on opportunities and threats that could impact Takeda's portfolio.
• Contribute to the development and/or assessment of new products and services to be offered by Scientific & Competitive Analysis.
• Work to continually improve the business processes of the Scientific & Competitive Analysis team and of key customer groups.
• Ensure that Global CI assumptions are consistent across functions as well as regions. Where assumptions differ, understand the reasons for the differences and communicate them clearly.
• Work closely with US and ex-US based market insights and forecasting colleagues to ensure cohesive and aligned contributions to strategic decisions and planning.
• Plan and facilitate key Competitor Workshops (War Games, Gap Analysis, Scenario Planning) within Oncology Business Unit to prepare teams for future potential competitor threats.
• Take a leadership role in defining and executing the necessary competitive intelligence activities required to generate insights that support global clinical development and commercialization of Takeda Oncology's current portfolio as well as future business development.
• Create and communicate to stakeholders a summary of key competitor events impacting Takeda business, CI activities to address these competitor threats as well as CI activities to support and align with forecasting process and feeding into market research activities.
• Proactively develop and…