Head Marketing Technology (Biolife)
Bannockburn, IllinoisBannockburn, Illinois| Cambridge, Massachusetts
On the Global Manufacturing and Supply (GMS) team at Takeda, you’ll be part of a rapidly transforming industry that’s applying technology and data in new ways. Within our agile, innovative, people-centric organization, your work will matter every day as you use your skills to help us manufacture therapies for patients on our four platforms:
- Small Molecules
- Biologics
- Plasma
As part of the GMS team, you'll have the opportunity to pursue unique experiences and build new skills, and you'll know that the work you do every day makes an impact — on our patients, our people, our planet, and on yourself.
Bannockburn, Illinois| Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Job Description
Head of Marketing Technology (BioLife)
About the role
Takeda’s Data, Digital & Technology (DD&T) organization partners with business and functional leaders to deliver measurable outcomes through technology, data, and digital capabilities. Within Plasma Derived Therapies (PDT), this role is focused on marketing technology in support of BioLife’s donor-facing growth agenda.
This role serves as Head of Marketing Technology for BioLife, owning the strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery of consumer-facing marketing technology capabilities across owned channels and marketing platforms. The role partners closely with the Commercial Plasma Portfolio organization, with a strong day-to-day focus on BioLife Marketing, to align priorities, shape the multiyear roadmap, and deliver measurable business value. You will lead a cross-geo team (US-based roles plus India product-development pods) and steward a USD 10–20M portfolio across personnel and project investment.
How you will contribute (key responsibilities)
- Partner with Commercial Plasma Portfolio leadership and BioLife Marketing to shape priorities, translate business needs into a clear technology roadmap, and ensure aligned execution and transparent progress reporting.
- Establish and run marketing technology portfolio governance across intake, prioritization, dependency management, integrated planning, and benefits tracking.
- Co-design, in partnership with BioLife Marketing and Commercial Plasma Portfolio, a digital marketing technology strategy and multiyear capabilities roadmap across donor engagement, channels, messaging and personalization, and donor experience optimization.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of digital capabilities from discovery through launch (requirements/user stories, acceptance criteria, release readiness) and drive continuous optimization.
- Proactively identify new and emerging technology capabilities that could drive increased efficiency and effectiveness across BioLife’s digital channels; build use cases and evolve the roadmap accordingly.
- Leverage and scale relevant capabilities from other Takeda commercial organizations where they can accelerate value for BioLife.
- Define KPI and measurement frameworks; build a test-and-learn/experimentation cadence and scale proven improvements.
- Sponsor analytics and AI use cases for digital marketing in partnership with Data & AI Enablement, ensuring adoption and measurable value realization.
- Lead the MarTech ecosystem solutions strategy and roadmap (e.g., marketing automation, CDP/identity, activation, tagging/measurement) and partner with enterprise platform owners for integrated releases and adoption.
- Build and develop a high-performing cross-geo team; lead operating cadence (quarterly planning, sprint/release governance), and manage vendors/agencies as needed.
- Ensure privacy, consent, compliance, and risk management are embedded into donor-facing experiences and activation workflows.
Key Skills & Capabilities and Qualifications
Key skills & capabilities
- Retail consumer technology mindset (mobile-first UX, performance, accessibility, conversion optimization).
- Proven digital feature delivery end-to-end (build/QA/release/iterate) using modern product and agile practices.
- Strong measurement and experimentation capability (instrumentation, KPI frameworks, A/B testing, attribution/incrementality concepts).
- Channel strategy + roadmap leadership: prioritization using value/effort/dependencies/risks; clear tradeoff communication.
- MarTech architecture fluency (e.g., marketing automation, CRM, CDP/identity/activation, tagging/analytics, personalization, consent management).
- Cloud and Digital infrastructure literacy to support website performance, API integrations, and personalization at scale.
- Matrix leadership and stakeholder influence across Commercial Plasma Portfolio, BioLife Marketing, peer DD&T teams, and enterprise platforms; comfort operating in complex governance environments.
- People leadership: building high-performing teams, coaching leaders, and driving accountability across geographies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required (relevant field or equivalent experience); advanced degree preferred.
- 10–15+ years in marketing technology, digital product delivery, consumer digital platforms, growth, CRM/lifecycle, or adjacent domains; 7+ years leading teams/managers.
- Track record delivering measurable, multi-channel digital initiatives tied to business KPIs.
- Experience leading global delivery across US-based teams and India pods/ICC; strong portfolio/budget stewardship consistent with USD 10–20M scope.
Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.
For Location:
Bannockburn, ILU.S. Base Salary Range:
$212,000.00 - $333,190.00
The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
EEO Statement
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Locations
Bannockburn, ILUSA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500Worker Type
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