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Associate Director, Disease State Marketing

Boston, Massachusetts

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Job ID R0147394 Date posted 03/24/2025 Location Boston, Massachusetts

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Job Description

About the role:

As a member of Takeda Oncology, your work will contribute to our bold, inspiring vision: We aspire to cure cancer. Here, you'll build a career grounded in purpose and be empowered to deliver your best. The Associate Director of Disease State Marketing drives the strategy and execution of disease state education for the PV franchise, including leading cross-functional collaboration to establish a strategy from pre-launch -to launch and all disease state workstream deliverables.

How you will contribute:

Gather and analyze market insights, including competitive landscape assessments, market research, and demand forecasting, to identify opportunities and allocate resources.
Collaborate with patient services, regulatory, policy, access, and other functions to develop strategies that maximize the opportunity.
Project manage all milestones and activities to meet critical development, regulatory, and commercial timelines in collaboration with external partners.
Engage externally with patients, HCPs, and other stakeholders, and other pre-launch field operations in collaboration with marketing and sales/accounts. Including an assessment of field capabilities needed for launch.
In collaboration with the marketing team, lead pre-launch disease state execution, including strategy, and campaign development for HCPs and patients
Lead efforts around innovation and the advancement of personalized care through technology in partnership with DD&T
Demonstrate collaborative leadership and influence necessary to ensure alignment among key cross-functional stakeholders and aligned execution.
Foster an inclusive, safe environment in line with Takeda values and leadership behaviors.

Build a Collaborative Culture:

Build and model a culture of questioning and constructive challenge and collaboration to foster openness and candid dialogue among the BUs and regions and other decision-making bodies. Listen to and carefully consider other’s perspectives, especially to manage and resolve conflict.

Lead with Strategic Agility:

Develop bold, innovative strategic plans and crafts pragmatic solutions to implement them. Move easily between addressing current needs and planning for the future with informed insight. Consider marketplace and economic forces and trends and how it affects our business.

Navigate Change:

Communicates the need for change. Decide and act, even when faced with uncertainty. Focuses on the critical issues while prioritizing current work.

Drive Innovation:

Generate breakthrough solutions and enable others to do the same. Draw on unexpected or seemingly unrelated ways of thinking. Incorporates stakeholder feedback to improve the business.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required.
Advanced degree preferred.
8+ years of experience with increasing responsibilities in sales, marketing or related function in pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
6+ years of experience of pharmaceutical marketing experience
Vendor management experience
Strong marketing acumen: product/extension launches, segmentation / targeting.
Launch/pre-launch experience is required, preferably in rare diseases or oncology.

Key Skills, Abilities, and Competencies

Lead creative ideation and apply creativity in marketing strategy and execution
Leverage innovation to enhance marketing strategies
Excellent interpersonal skills, communication skills and listening skills, ability to develop important relationships with diverse stakeholders, good conflict management and negotiation skills, ability to analyze complex issues to develop relevant and realistic plans, programs and recommendations.
Drive the achievement of business goals through aligning people, process, structure, information and communication systems.
Capability to develop and execute effective programs, set metrics and over deliver. Strong understanding of digital approaches to reach and impact customers.
Strong business acumen with the ability to use knowledge of the industry and marketplace to formulate strategies that identify long-term benefits for customers and evaluate decisions by considering the interests of the entire organization.
Collaborate across disciplines to align sales execution to product strategies.
~20% Travel for conferences and meetings.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

This position is currently classified as "hybrid" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

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:

Boston, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$149,100.00 - $234,300.00

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-termincentives. 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

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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I am overwhelmingly thrilled with Takeda's leadership, the care through COVID, and the decision making framework that prioritizes the patient, trust, reputation and business – in that order. It's all about building trust and honoring our commitments.

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I love the fact that I am empowered to do what is right and what I need to do. If you are a person who likes to make decisions and be accountable and responsibile for your actions, this is the right company for you. If you want a company that cares for its employees, Takeda is a great fit for you.

Kristen H. - US Medical

I am overwhelmingly thrilled with Takeda's leadership, the care through COVID, and the decision making framework that prioritizes the patient, trust, reputation and business – in that order. It's all about building trust and honoring our commitments.

Dayna F. - Director, IG Community Support

I love the fact that I am empowered to do what is right and what I need to do. If you are a person who likes to make decisions and be accountable and responsibile for your actions, this is the right company for you. If you want a company that cares for its employees, Takeda is a great fit for you.

Kristen H. - US Medical

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