Lead, Product Sustainability Strategy

Job Description

About the role:

The purpose of the Lead, Product Sustainability Strategy is to:

• Develop and implement overarching strategies for product sustainability that enable Takeda to credibly and consistently articulate product-level environmental performance to meet the growing requirements in customer tender submissionsand to bolster Takeda’s Planet strategy and brand objectives.

• Partner with Commercial, Regulatory, Medical, Legal, and Corporate Sustainability to design, substantiate, approve, and govern sustainability-related product claims and narratives that support the business while meeting tender/customer documentation requirementsandpreventing non-compliant or misleading claims.

• Collaborate with Environmental Sustainability Operations and DD&T to identify and operationalize the data needs, assessments, methodologies, and evidence required to support product-level sustainability narratives and tender disclosures, including maintaining documentation that is traceable, defensible, and inspection/audit ready.

• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve theglobal Sustainability Product Claims governance framework to enable consistent, compliant, and scalableexecution across Takeda’s portfolio and geographies—ensuring Takeda can qualify for and respond to customer tenders that require verified sustainability information and controlled product claims.

How you will contribute:

• Leads the design and implementation of Takeda's product sustainability narrative strategies for priority brands and pipeline assets, ensuring alignment with enterprise sustainability goals, brand strategies, and customer tender requirements.

• Collaborates closely with Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Compliance, and Pharmacovigilance to define guardrails for sustainability related claims, ensure appropriate evidence standards, and oversee review and approval processes.

• Works with Environmental Sustainability Operations and DD&T to define data requirements, methodologies, and metrics needed to substantiate claims, including maintaining documentation that is traceable, defensible, and inspection/audit ready.

• Designs, implements, and matures the Sustainability Product Claims governance framework, including roles, decision rights, operating procedures, documentation standards, and escalation pathways.

• Develops clear, credible, and differentiated product sustainability narratives and claims, translating complex technical assessments (e.g., life cycle assessment outputs, emissions data) into compelling content for diverse stakeholders.

• Partners with Commercial, Marketing, Market Access, and Medical Affairs to integrate sustainability narratives into brand plans, promotional and non promotional materials, and patient and HCP education tools in compliance with regulatory and promotional standards.

• Co leads or participates in cross functional governance forums and project teams focused on product level sustainability, ensuring consistent application of policy and timely decision making.

• Monitors external regulatory, policy, and stakeholder trends related to environmental and sustainability claims; recommends updates to internal policies, templates, and training accordingly.

• Develops and delivers training, playbooks, and tools to build capability in sustainability narrative development across global and regional teams.

• Engages with external partners (e.g., industry associations, NGOs, specialist consultancies) as appropriate to benchmark Takeda's approach, align with best practices, and strengthen credibility of methods and claims.

• Maintains high standards of ethical conduct and integrity, proactively identifying and mitigating risks of green washing, reputational harm, or misalignment with Takeda values.

• Other duties as assigned.

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