Director, Medical Strategic Alliances

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Job Description

About the role:

Join Takeda as a Director, Medical Strategic Alliances where you will lead medical engagement strategies and partnerships with key external organizations to advance Takeda’s priorities in improving healthcare and patient outcomes. You will be a key contributor to therapeutic area medical teams and will collaborate across the organization to shape Takeda’s presence in the medical community, creating value for healthcare providers, patients and driving innovation. As part of the US Medical team, you will report to the Head of Strategic Alliances, US Medical.

How you will contribute:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement medical engagement strategies with external organizations aligning US therapeutic area (TA) goals, Takeda’s priorities and external stakeholders needs.

• Relationship Building: Cultivate strategic alliances with external stakeholders, including medical societies, quality organizations and in collaboration with Public Affairs Advocacy team, patient organizations.

• Impact and Reporting: Define and measure partnership success and ensure insights from external partners are shared across teams to inform Takeda’s strategies and initiatives.

Lead Holistic External Engagement

• Lead environmental assessments to understand and anticipate US medical trends and opportunities for Takeda engagement with external organizations

• Build and strengthen medical relationships with professional societies, healthcare quality and other prioritized organizations

• Develop and implement robust engagement strategies and detailed plans with prioritized organizations

Strategic Alignment and Internal Collaboration

• Partner with cross-functional teams across medical strategy teams (US, Global), patient advocacy, new product planning, R&D, and commercial groups to ensure unified, consistent external engagement

• Act as the strategic connector among launch, new product planning teams and established medical teams ensuring internal coordination supports external engagement alignment

• Be a champion for showing up cohesively as “One Takeda” by fostering collaboration across multiple teams interacting with similar external stakeholders

• Ensure updates on engagement, partnerships and impact are disseminated across Takeda for alignment and optimization.  Where appropriate, work with internal partners to amplify or share externally

• Maintain compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies while fostering external engagement effectiveness

Strategically Prioritized Partnerships

• Identify cross-functional opportunities to foster innovation within and across therapeutic areas

• Evaluate and identify high-impact partnerships and topics aligned with Takeda’s goals to ensure external engagements are meaningful, impactful, and innovative

• Define metrics for success and regularly communicate insights across internal teams to optimize Takeda's external presence and impact

Leadership Scope

• Direct partnerships with external organizations; influence across therapeutic areas and enterprise-level priorities

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree required

• Pharm D, MD, PhD, M.P.H., M.S., or equivalent education or working experience preferred

• Ideal areas of expertise: Clinical Rese