Director, US Medical Strategy - GI

Job Description Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Director, US Medical Strategy- GI in our Cambridge, MA office. At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world. Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

The Director, GI is a critical role within the US Medical Affairs (USMA) organization that reports to the Therapeutic Area (TA) Head, with product level strategic responsibility for one or more products, and may have broader responsibility for later in lifecycle TA. The role is accountable for medical strategy, ensuring that product-specific strategies are developed and executed in collaboration with the Medical Unit.

The role serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), representing the USMA at the Global level for a product on relevant internal committees. The role is accountable for the relevant budget, drives overall medical unit insights, including ad boards, and communication with cross-functional partners. This role is expected to continuously evolve medical strategy and operating models through the thoughtful adoption of digital, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to enhance insight generation, decision-making, execution efficiency, and patient impact.

Overarching Responsibilities:
Product Level strategic responsibility for one or more products. 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 the strategic direction of the organization). Oversee the execution of medical strategies by the medical unit partner with the PM to track progress against strategic plans, including development + communication of periodic reports.

Apply data-driven and AI-enabled approaches to monitor execution, identify gaps, and continuously improve medical plans. Develop US Product Medical Strategy:
Lead/co-develop/coordinate with the medical unit and provide medical input into the near-term and long-term strategic direction for assigned product. Accountable for the 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 Global Medical Evidence Generation team to develop evidence generation strategy.

Develop long-term lifecycle management strategy + tactics (HEOR etc.). Leverage digital and AI-enabled analyses to improve scenario planning, prioritization, and lifecycle management strategy. Champion responsible adoption of digital and AI-powered tools that improve efficiency, scalability, and consistency of medical strategy development and execution. Collaborate with PM (as applicable) to develop and maintain the medical landscape and insights to inform strategy.

Medical Expert:
Serve as the in-house medical and scientific expert for therapies within GI and represent medical affairs at the Global level for a product. Generate Insights – Develop and execute ad board strategy, which may be done in partnership with the PM (as applicable), and insights from field medical/additional sources.…