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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. As part of the US Oncology Medical Affairs team, you will report to the Scientific Director of Polycythemia Vera and work with key stakeholders.​

How you will contribute:

• Tactical accountability grounded in science, disease state, competitive clinical data in support of one or more products.  

• Therapeutic Area (TA) and/or product focus may evolve, to support the priorities of the organization.

• Oversee execution of medical strategies by the US medical team and partner with the project manager (PM) to track progress against strategic plans, including the development + communication of periodic reports.

• Support Sr. Director / Director to Lead/co-develop/coordinate with the US medical and global medical teams and provide medical input into the near-term strategic direction for assigned product/franchise and/or specific area of focus.

• Support development and ongoing updates to relevant product specific medical strategies, in partnership with Sr. Dir. / Dir. And medical unit, and in alignment with the commercial brand strategy and global product teams.

• Support development of long-term lifecycle management strategy + tactics (HEOR etc.) 

• Collaborate with PM (as applicable) to develop and maintain medical landscape and insights to inform strategy.

Medical Expert:

• As directed by the Sr. Director / Director, serve as the in-house medical and scientific expert for therapies within the assigned TA and represent medical affairs at the Global level for a product/franchise.

• Generate Insights – Support execution of ad board strategy, which may be done in partnership with the PM (as applicable), and insights from field medical/additional sources.

• Understand and Communicate Insights: Synthesize summarized insights + implications from relevant sources (e.g., ad boards, field medical) to US and global medical teams and cross-functional stakeholders and update medical landscape + medical strategy (as appropriate).

Budget Management:

• Subject to delegation from the Sr. Dir. or Dir. or the needs of the program.

Execution / Content Creation:

• Partner with the US and global medical functional leads to ensure strategic alignment related to execution of the relevant franchise / product medical strategy and how it is pulled through into tactics (e.g. Grants, Medical Communications (e.g. SCP, Slide Decks), Publications, Research, Training, Field Medical, Etc.).

• Support medical review of appropriate materials as needed as part of medical and commercial development/review processes.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Advanced Doctoral Degree (e.g., MD, DO, PhD, PharmD) or other advanced degreed professionals considered depending on past relevant experience, including at least 4 years pharmaceutical industry experience, and/or clinical work, research, or academic endeavors. 

• Minimum 2 years’ experience