Senior Director, US Medical Affairs - Head of Dermatology

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About the role:

Join Takeda as the Senior Director, US Medical Affairs - Head of Dermatology in Cambridge, MA. This is a critical role within the US Medical Affairs (USMA) organization that reports to the Vice President US Medical, Dermatology and Rheumatology. You will be accountable for medical strategy, ensuring that TA and product-specific strategies are developed and executed in collaboration with the Medical Unit.

You will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), representing the USMA on relevant internal committees and with external experts/committees. The role is accountable for overseeing data generation activities, including phase 4 clinical studies, providing coaching/mentorship to team managers, as appropriate. Further, the Senior Director will contribute to the medical unit insights, including ad boards, and communications with cross-functional partners.

How you will contribute:

Overarching Responsibilities:

• TA and/or product focus may evolve to support priorities of the organization (e.g. additional TA or product specific responsibilities may change based upon strategic direction of the organization).
• Oversee and/or delegate execution of medical strategies by the medical unit partner with the PM to track progress against strategic plans, including development + communication of periodic reports.

Develop US Product Medical Strategy:

• Co-develop/coordinate with the medical unit and provide medical input into the near-term and long-term strategic direction for assigned product/franchise.
• Accountable for development and ongoing updates to relevant product specific medical strategies, in partnership with medical unit, and in alignment with the commercial brand strategy and global product teams
• Collaborate with Value and Evidence Generation (VEG) team to develop evidence generation strategy.
• Develop long-term lifecycle management strategy + tactics (HEOR etc.).
• Collaborate with PM (as applicable) to develop and maintain medical landscape and insights to inform strategy.
• Leverage advanced artificial intelligence tools and data analytics to inform, shape, and support medical strategies, foster innovation, improve efficiencies, and decision-making processes.
• Identify critical opportunities to leverage emerging AI technologies to improve dermatology patient care and the broader healthcare landscape.

Medical Expert:

• Serve as the in-house medical and scientific expert for therapies within the assigned TA and represent medical affairs at various internal and external meetings.

Insights Generation:

• Generate Insights – Develop and execute ad board strategies, which may be done in partnership with the PM (as applicable), and insights from field medical / additional sources.
• Understand and Communicate Insights:
  Synthesize summarized insights + implications from relevant sources (e.g., ad boards, field medical) to medical unit and cross-functional stakeholders and update medical landscape + medical strategy (as appropriate).

External Engagement:

• Develop external KOL relationships and insights through Advisory Boards, professional associations/meetings and conferences etc.; manage global interactions with US KOLs. Partner with US Strategic Medical Alliances group on external partnership, as appropriate (e.g., external affairs/government affairs).

Budget Management:

• Accountable for budget and ongoing budget management in partnership with the PM or delegates, and in concert with TA Head.

Execution / Content Creation:

• Partner with the medical unit functional leads to ensure strategic alignment related to execution of the relevant franchise / product medical strategy and how it is pulled through into tactics (e.g. Grants, Medical Communications (e.g. SCP, ICP, Slide Decks), Publications, Research, Field Medical, Etc.).
• Support medical review of appropriate materials as…