Senior Manager, Scientific Communications, Global Medical Affairs Oncology

Job Description
About the Role:

The Senior Manager, Scientific Communications is a highly visible strategic leadership role within Takeda Oncology’s Global Medical Affairs Oncology organization, supporting the company's mission to aspire to cure cancer by driving the scientific publications and communications strategy for assigned hematology oncology assets. Reporting to the Scientific Communications Group Lead, Hematology
, this individual serves as a subject matter expert in publication best practices and scientific communications, proactively developing and executing comprehensive publication and communication plans aligned with medical strategy, data availability, and transparency requirements. The role leads cross-functional publication planning teams and collaborates closely with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Outcomes Research, and regional and global stakeholders to deliver high-impact scientific publications and medical communication materials, including manuscripts, congress presentations, scientific slide decks, NCCN and pathway submissions, field medical tools, training materials, digital content, animations, websites, and other scientific resources.

The Senior Manager oversees vendors, authors, writers, and external partners, manages program budgets, ensures compliance with global publication standards and scientific rigor, and serves as the primary liaison with key opinion leaders, investigators, and collaborators. Additionally, this individual leads the development of scientific platforms that establish core scientific messaging and a consistent scientific voice across all communication channels, helping translate complex data into clear, impactful, and compliant scientific narratives that advance Takeda Oncology’s strategic objectives.

• Proactively develop, manage, and execute on global or regionally integrated strategic publication plans and scientific communication plans in coordination with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with product medical strategies
• Have a strong understanding of prioritized disease areas, including landscape and competition
• Initiate communication with authors; identify all necessary data required for content development; participate in author meetings to facilitate content discussion and ensure appropriate content development process is followed
• Critically review publications including, but not limited to, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations, for accuracy and scientific rigor; manage and facilitate the content review process, including collating reviewer comments and having discussions with authors and reviewers
• Commitment to ethical practices in the preparation and dissemination of publications
• Effectively and consistently communicate the publication and scientific communications strategy, tactical plan, and plan progress to internal business partners; work with vendors and internal technical support groups to evaluate and optimize publications systems for reporting metrics to meet stakeholder needs
• Manage medical writing agency, including oversight on execution of publications plans and budget, and maintenance of publications management databases such as Datavision
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies for development, internal review, and dissemination of scientific communications materials, and act with commitment to ethical practices in the preparation and dissemination of publications.
• Manage alliance partnerships
• Evaluate trends in medical publications and drive opportunities for enhanced publications content and amplification of publications to increase value of publications in scientific exchange; lead and/or participate in process development and…