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Head of Vaccines Business Unit

Jakarta, Jakarta Special Capital Region
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  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Job Level: Senior
  • Travel: Minimal (if any)

Takeda has been translating science into breakthrough medicines for 240 years. Every step of the way, our teams have worked together to tackle some of the most challenging problems in drug discovery and development. Today, we’re a driving force behind innovative therapies that make a lasting difference to millions of patients around the world.

In R&D, all of our history and potential comes together in an environment that welcomes diversity of thought and amplifies every voice. Working closely with colleagues, you’ll play a key role in bringing our rich pipeline of products forward to help patients. Come join a team that’s earned trust for more than two centuries, and find out how advancing transformative therapies at Takeda will shape your bright future.

Job ID R0154092 Date posted 06/05/2025 Location Jakarta, Jakarta Special Capital Region

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Job Description

Objective

  • Create and implement a comprehensive strategy to drive sustainable growth of Takeda’s innovative dengue vaccine. Drive a positive public health impact through broad access to vaccination, education, and capacity building.
  • Effectively lead the cross-functional efforts and external partnerships, translating strategy into well-aligned and impactful tactics.
  • Leverage data and insights to conceive targeted investments and customer-centric actions. Measure impact and foster a learning culture, building a best-in-class team and operations, leveraging trainings, digital and omni-channel engagements.
  • Role model Takeda values and effectively lead, develop, and manage a high-performance team, fostering psychological safety and talent development.
  • Contribute to the strategy and overall leadership of Takeda in Indonesia as a member of the Indonesian Leadership Team.

People Leadership

  • Role model Takeda values and foster a culture of psychological safety, encouraging everybody to speak up. Ensure diligent monitoring and accountability with regards to compliance with laws, regulations and policies.
  • Build and drive a best-in-class in marketing and sales team by setting high standards, communicating them in a compelling manner, role modelling desired behaviours, and supporting the team through coaching, targeted trainings and other development actions.
  • Foster a culture of high-performance, empowerment, accountability, collaboration, innovation, creativity and learning.

Customer Focus and Market Understanding

  • Ensure strong market and customer understanding based on systematic data analytics and insights as well as close direct interactions with KOLs, customers, medical societies and partners.
  • Effectively tailor interactions and tactics to customer needs leading to an exceptional customer experience with superior outcomes.  

Strategic Leadership

  • Establish a compelling vision of the dengue vaccine franchise.
  • Lead the creation of a comprehensive long- and mid-term strategy to drive sustainable growth of Takeda’s innovative dengue vaccine in alignment with the global and regional strategy and the local environment.
  • Drive a positive public health impact through broad access to vaccination, education, and capacity building in alignment with Indonesia’s needs.
  • Ensures an effective allocation of resources and budget management.

Driving Results

  • Ensure effective implementation of the strategy through clear and focused objectives and guidance to the field team resulting in effective territory plans.
  • Drive, support and monitor the effective execution through culture, measurement, incentives, and accountability.
  • Establish effective but simple governance and processes.

Collaboration

  • Closely collaborate with other functions and above country teams and lead the clear alignment of overall vaccine strategy and operations for Indonesia. Effectively leverage external partnerships.
  • Contribute to the strategy and overall leadership of Takeda in Indonesia as a member of the Indonesian Leadership Team.

Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in science, medicine, health economics, economics, or business.
  • Work experience: Minimum 5 years working in a biopharmaceutical leadership role with a strong understanding of commercial operations. Minimum of 8 years of biopharmaceutical experience, vaccine and Indonesian work experience is preferred.
  • Unquestionable personal and business integrity.
  • Excellent communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
  • Strong analytical skills, structured and creative problem solving, planning and prioritization, understanding customer needs and trends, energetic, ambitious, results-oriented, highly engaging leader, mature and professional business partner.
  • Travel requirement locally and internationally.

Locations

Jakarta, Indonesia

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time
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