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Job Description

About the role:

The Strategy Lead (Director) drives strategic planning for GLEC by translating senior leadership priorities into clear, actionable plans and measurable objectives. The role oversees annual planning, maintains strategic roadmaps, manages OKR/KPI frameworks, and supports operating reviews and governance processes. It includes leading strategic analyses, partnering with program and change management teams, and ensuring strong alignment, execution quality, and visibility across teams and regions. The Strategy Lead also serves as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, ensuring the function stays coordinated and focused on enterprise priorities.

How you will contribute:

• Lead all core annual planning workstreams, including calendar design, templates, facilitation workshops, and executive-level readouts for the Function.

• Own and maintain the strategy-on-a-page and multi-year roadmap, ensuring clarity of priorities, dependencies, and resource assumptions.

• Oversee the OKR/KPI framework, partnering with Finance, HR, and Operations Lead to ensure alignment to budget, workforce plans, and enterprise priorities.

• Produce and manage recurring operating reviews (monthly/quarterly business reviews), delivering insights, risks, and recommended actions across the Function.

• Support governance processes, including intake/prioritization evaluations, decision logs, and tracking leadership commitments and follow-through.

• Lead strategic analyses (capacity modeling, demand forecasting, productivity trends, service performance) to inform leadership decisions.

• Partner with PMO and Change Leads to ensure the strategy is integrated into program sequencing and benefits realization plans.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• 10+ years in strategy, legal operations, management consulting, or related functions in a global, matrixed organization.

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• Demonstrated track record leading strategic planning, program management, and transformation in a complex global organization.

• Demonstrated ability to structure complex problems, drive cross-functional alignment, and influence senior executives.

• Advanced fluency with planning frameworks, metrics, dashboards, and executive storytelling.

• Strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and comfort with data-driven decision-making.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive storytelling capabilities.

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. #LI-Hybrid

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:

$192,400.00 - $302,390.00

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

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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