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Job Description

About the role:

Join Takeda as a Director, Dermatology, US Medical where you will have product level strategic responsibility for one or more products and may have broader responsibility for later in lifecycle TA. You will also be accountable for medical strategy, ensuring that dermatology and product-specific strategies are developed and executed in collaboration with the Medical Unit. You will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME), representing the USMA at the Global level for a product on relevant internal committees. You will be accountable for the relevant budget, and coaches/mentors team managers, as appropriate. Further, the Director drives overall medical unit insights, including ad boards, and communication with cross-functional partners. This is a critical role within the US Medical Affairs (USMA) organization that reports to the Therapeutic Area (TA) Head or the Senior Director. This is a hybrid role based in Cambridge, MA.

How you will contribute:

Overarching Responsibilities:

• Product Level strategic responsibility for one or more products, may have broader responsibility for later in lifecycle TAs.
• TA and/or product focus may evolve to support priorities of the organization (e.g. additional TA or product-specific responsibilities may change based upon the strategic direction of the organization).
• Oversee and/or delegate the execution of medical strategies by the medical unit partner with the PM to track progress against strategic plans, including development + communication of periodic reports.

Develop US Product Medical Strategy:

• Lead/co-develop/coordinate with the medical unit and provide medical input into the near-term and long-term strategic direction for assigned product.
• Accountable for the development and ongoing updates to relevant product specific medical strategies, in partnership with medical unit, and in alignment with the commercial brand strategy and global product teams.
• Collaborate with Value and Evidence Generation team to develop evidence generation strategy.
• Develop long-term lifecycle management strategy + tactics (HEOR etc.) 
• Collaborate with PM (as applicable) to develop and maintain the medical landscape and insights to inform strategy.

Team Management:

• Manage Associate Directors (aligned with Sr. Director), to effectively develop and execute medical strategy, including delegation of responsibilities, providing ongoing oversight and coaching to ensure the team is achieving the objectives of the medical strategy (as applicable).

Medical Expert:

• Serve as the in-house medical and scientific expert for therapies within dermatology and represent medical affairs at the Global level for a product.
• Generate Insights – Develop and execute 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 the medical unit and cross-functional stakeholders and update medical landscape + medical strategy (as appropriate).

External Engagement:  

• Develop external KOL relationships and insights through Advisory Boards, professional associations/meetings and conferences etc.; manage global interactions with US KOLs and vice-versa.
• Partner with US Strategic Medical Alliances group on external partnership, as appropriate (e.g., external affairs/government affairs).

Budget Management:

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