Head of Engagement & Corporate Site Communications

A VP senior communications leadership role responsible for defining and advancing Takeda’s global employee engagement and corporate function and corporate site communications strategy. This leader serves as both the architect of Takeda’s employee engagement, ensuring employees are informed, inspired and connected to the company’s purpose, values, culture ambition and strategic priorities. This includes providing integrated communications counsel and leadership for Human Resources, Legal-Ethics & Compliance and Communications & Governance organizations.

In partnership with leaders and communicators around the world, this role also leads Takeda’s enterprise transformation and change communications capability and oversees the global network of site communicators supporting Takeda’s key corporate sites. By unifying employee engagement, culture and values communications, functional/executive communications, and site-level engagement under a single strategy, this leader will strengthen consistency, drive efficiency and ensure Takeda remains a trusted employer and valued community partner.

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Communications, this lead will sit on the Global HR Leadership Team serving as the strategic communications partner to the CHRO, as well as the Global General Counsel, Chief Communications & Governance Officer and Chief Transformation Officer. This leader will have accountability for executive and functional communications across four Takeda executive team members in total — lead a global team of 10+ communications professionals and serve as a key member of the Corporate Communications leadership team.

• Define and lead Takeda’s global employee engagement strategy, establishing the vision, priorities, governance and measurement framework that guide internal communications efforts across the enterprise.
• Build and lead an Employee Engagement Center of Excellence to unify approaches and grow the impact of communications in service of Takeda’s priorities, culture transformation and two-horizon growth strategy, including enterprise standards, operating models, tools and governance for communications, channels, measurement and audience insights.
• Partner with senior leaders and communicators across the company to ensure employee engagement strategies support and align to enterprise priorities, common ways of working, culture evolution and transformation objectives.
• Oversee business ownership and strategic direction for internal communications platforms and channels, including SharePoint, Engage, digital signage and future employee communications technologies, ensuring effective governance, adoption, performance and continuous improvement.
• Partner across the Communications & Governance organization to drive integrated global employee engagement strategies at critical business milestones and moments of organizational change.

• Serve as the strategic communications lead and trusted advisor to the CHRO, Global General Counsel, Chief Communications & Governance Officer and Chief Transformation Officer, shaping executive communications strategies that advance business priorities, strengthen leadership visibility and engage internal and external stakeholders.
• Steer a communications strategy for Human Resources, Legal-Ethics & Compliance and Corporate Communications & Governance organizations, reaching internal and external stakeholders with priority messages to drive action. Ensure harmonized approaches to planning, executing and measuring communications impact across internal and external channels.
• Drive enterprise culture and values communications, developing compelling narratives…