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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused company that will inspire you and support your career? If so, be empowered to take charge of your future at Takeda. Join us as a Senior Scientific Director, Clinical Science, Neuroscience TAU in our Cambridge, MA office. 

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission

OBJECTIVES:

The Senior Scientific Director:

• Leads, drives, or contributes to strategy for the development of assigned internal or partnered pipeline compound(s), for specific Takeda initiatives, or for business development opportunities while considering the clinical, scientific, regulatory, commercial, and organizational aspects and leads, or is a key member of, multi-disciplinary, multi-regional, matrix team(s) in highly complex decisions. 
• Responsible for development decisions assessing and integrating the input from various disciplines to create, maintain, and execute a project plan that will result in the in the desired outcome. 
• Applies scientific decision making to clinical development, licensing, and portfolio questions. 
• Interacts with and influences R&D senior leadership decision-making by setting strategic direction.  Across these activities, they work closely with Global Clinical Leads or Disease Area Unit Heads. Success or failure directly translates to the ability of R&D to meet its corporate goals and for Takeda to have future commercial products.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Team leadership / membership

• Represents Clinical Science on project, clinical, and diligence teams or ad hoc working groups.
• Supports Global Project and Clinical Teams to ensure that working group activities, e.g. indication expansion, LCM, or BD activities, are aligned with the global strategy; may lead working groups and task forces within programs, initiatives, due diligences, etc.
• ​Contributes to the overall Asset Strategy by contributing to the Clinical Development Plan, Clinical Protocols and other documents needed for CDP and study execution and regulatory submissions. Recommends scope, complexity and size, and influences the budget of all aspects of a study or program.
• Represents Clinical Science on pre-clinical research project teams to give input into the clinical development and translational strategy and ensures the overall goals are in line with disease area and therapeutic area strategies.
• Ongoing work output will involve continual critical evaluation of the development strategy to maintain a state-of-the-art development plan or disease area strategy that is competitive and consistent with the latest regulatory requirements, proactive identification of challenges, and development of contingency plans to meet them. Recommends high impact global decisions.
• Responsible for monitoring and interpreting data from ongoing internal and external studies, assessing the medical and scientific implications and making recommendations that impact regional and global development such as “go/no go” decisions or modification of development pla