Associate Director, Congress Lead

Takeda; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Healthcare insurance

Life insurance

Wellness programs

Learning platforms

Internet & mobile reimbursements

Parental leave

Job summary

Takeda in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced leader to drive the GCM Congress capability, delivering scalable operational support across prioritized congresses and regional activities. You will own GCM execution from KOL mapping to booth-content and programming, ensuring accurate scientific narratives across congress content and messaging.

Lead a team to translate briefs into workplans, manage capacity, and deliver on-site or remote readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in medical-congress operations and dissemination.
• Led teams or senior individual contributors in a scientific communications setting.
• Ability to manage time-sensitive global delivery across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead intake, prioritization, capacity and delivery across the congress portfolio.
• Translate briefs into workplans, staffing, timelines and checkpoints.
• Oversee AI-enabled KOL mapping, session coverage, and attendance analysis.
• Ensure scientific narratives are applied to content and messaging.
• Coordinate with meetings, operations, and content factory integration lead.

Skills

Medical communications

Congress operations

Team leadership

Vendor coordination

AI fluency

Global delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

Life sciences degree

Tools

Version control

Content repositories

Job description

Job Description

Role Objectives

• Lead the Bengaluru GCM Congress capability, delivering scalable operational support across prioritized Global congresses and defined regional and local congress activities
• Own GCM execution across KOL mapping, coverage planning, approved booth-content assembly and programming, daily-report production, overnight updates and coordination with the GCM Med Comms & Congress Content Factory Integration Lead
• Ensure the approved scientific narrative and messaging are accurately applied to congress content and approach

Key Responsibilities

Activitiy & Team Leadership

• Manage GCM intake, prioritization, capacity and delivery across the congress portfolio
• Translate Global Congress CoE briefs into workplans, staffing requirements, timelines and activity checkpointsLead and develop the GCM Sci Comms & Pubs Leads responsible for Congress Communications, Education and Operations Support and coordinate handoffs with Meetings & Events, Business Operations, the GCM Med Comms & Congress Content Factory Integration Lead and approved vendors within agreed accountability boundaries

Congress Operations

• Oversee AI-enabled KOL mapping, session coverage, attendance analysis and participant-assignment planning
• Oversee application of approved scientific narrative and messaging across coverage plans, booth-content packages, and on-site or remote readiness support
• Oversee overnight turnaround of daily-reports and implementation of approved panel and programming changes during congresses

Post-congress Material Support & Coordination

• Oversee preparation of congress-content requirements and source packages for the GCM Med Comms & Congress Content Factory Integration Lead and monitor production status, library maintenance and reuse-led regional or local support through the agreed workflow
• Ensure final outputs are appropriately reviewed, source-linked, version-controlled and aligned to approved scientific direction and local-use restrictions
• Monitor activity performance levels, quality, turnaround, reuse, capacity and stakeholder satisfaction and drive continuous improvement

Qualifications

Experience More than 10 years in the biopharmaceutical industry with at least 5 years of related experience; More than 5 years in scientific communications, Medical communications, congress operations or data dissemination; experience managing teams preferred or senior individual contributors

Technical skills

• Understanding of Medical-congress operations, booth-assembly and dissemination
• Experience managing time-sensitive global delivery across teams
• Strong digital and AI fluency for stakeholder mapping and rapid synthesis
• Knowledge of modular content, content repositories, Medical-review workflows and version control
• Strong people leadership, capacity management, vendor coordination and stakeholder-management skills

Education

A Medical, scientific, pharmacy, life sciences, public health, Medical communications or related degree is required; an advanced degree is a plus

Languages

Fluent English required; additional languages advantageous

BENEFITS

• It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are
• Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus
• Flexible work environment, including hybrid working
• Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children
• Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs
• Health & Wellness programs including annual health screening, weekly health sessions for employees.
• Employee Assistance Program
• 5 days of leave every year for Voluntary Service in additional to Humanitarian Leaves
• Broad Variety of learning platforms
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
• Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone
• Employee Referral Program
• Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks), Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 days)

Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time