Evidence Generation Enablement & Planning Lead: PRO/COA Implementation & Benchmarking

IND - 2028 Takeda Innovations India Private Limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Hybrid working

Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance for

Job summary

IND - 2028 Takeda Innovations India Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks a PRO/COA Benchmarking Support role. You will develop and document benchmarking strategies, pull evidence, and manage trackers to support Global Evidence Generation SMEs in strategy and endpoint selection.

The position emphasizes AI-enabled landscape scans and rigorous traceability. The role requires 2+ years in biopharmaceutical HEOR/PRO/COA support, a life sciences degree, and fluent English.

Qualifications

• Degree in a scientific/medical/life sciences field is required.
• Fluent English is required; additional languages are advantageous.
• Experience in HEOR, PRO/COA support, or market-access evidence preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support PRO/COA benchmarking and evidence collection across assets and regulatory contexts.
• Maintain benchmarks, trackers, libraries, and documentation by asset or disease area.
• Coordinate inputs across Global Evidence Generation, HEOR, Market Access, and R&D.
• Prepare concise benchmark outputs for US review with clear assumptions and limitations.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Project management software

AI tools for landscape scans

Education

Science/Medical/Life Sciences degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job Description

About the Role: Support PRO/COA strategy development through structured benchmarking, landscape scans, evidence pulls, precedent tracking, and documentation support. Provide consistent, traceable, and high-quality benchmarking execution and delivery to support and enable Global Evidence Generation SMEs to focus on strategy, endpoint selection, scientific interpretation, and final decisions. Support implementation of COA strategy.

How You Will Contribute

PRO/COA Benchmarking Support

• Conduct PRO and COA benchmark scans across comparator assets, precedent studies, HTA examples, payer requirements, regulatory examples, and published evidence
• Summarize relevant PRO instruments, COA endpoints, endpoint-use patterns, market-specific requirements, and evidence expectations
• Identify comparator precedents, study design examples, endpoint definitions, timing of assessment, and evidence-use context where there are meaningful established clinical thresholds
• Flag gaps, limitations, market-specific considerations, and precedent constraints for Global Evidence Generation review

Evidence Pulls, Trackers & Repository Management

• Maintain PRO/COA benchmark trackers, source libraries, evidence summaries, and supporting documentation by asset, indication, and/or disease area as appropriate
• Store source materials, strategy notes, benchmark outputs, decision rationale, and supporting references in the designated repository
• Apply required naming conventions, metadata, version control, access rules, and study asset linkage
• Update benchmark libraries as new evidence, regulatory/labeling, HTA feedback, payer requirements, or study precedents become available

Stakeholder Coordination & Escalation

• Coordinate inputs from Global Evidence Generation, HEOR, Market Access, R&D, LOCs, and PRO/COA SMEs to clarify benchmark questions, asset scope, indication, geography, and intended decision use
• Prepare concise benchmark outputs for US review, including source links, assumptions, limitations, and open questions
• Escalate endpoint selection questions, market applicability issues, strategic implications, and scientific interpretation needs to Global Evidence Generation or PRO/COA owners
• Support continuous improvement of PRO benchmarking templates, trackers, and source library structure

Digital, Automation, and AI-Enabled Ways of Working

• Use approved digital, analytical, automation, and AI-enabled tools to support evidence retrieval, scenario execution, sensitivity analysis, assumption documentation, and first-pass summaries where appropriate
• Apply human review to technology-supported outputs to confirm accuracy, completeness, source traceability, privacy, scientific integrity, quality, and compliance
• Use approved repositories, collaboration tools, and project-management platforms to maintain current, version-controlled, and decision-ready scenario materials

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience: More than 2 years of related work experience and more than 2 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry
• Experience: Experience in HEOR, PRO/COA support, market-access evidence, RWE Operations, Medical Affairs Operations, or scientific project coordination preferred
• Technical and Functional Skills: Working knowledge of PRO/COA concepts, endpoint benchmarking, regulatory or health authority requirements/guidance, HTA evidence expectations, and evidence generation planning
• Technical and Functional Skills: Ability to conduct structured evidence pulls, benchmark scans, source summaries, and gap documentation
• Technical and Functional Skills: Familiarity with regulatory reviews, HTA submissions, payer evidence requirements, publication databases, evidence repositories, and study documentation preferred
• Technical and Functional Skills: Strong Excel and project management software skills
• Technical and Functional Skills: Familiarity with AI tools for landscape scans, benchmarking, etc.
• Technical and Functional Skills: Strong documentation, version-control, repository management, and attention-to-detail skills
• Technical and Functional Skills: Ability to distinguish operational benchmarking support for US scientific interpretation and strategy decisions
• Education and Languages: A degree in a scientific, medical, life sciences, pharmacy, public health, outcomes research, epidemiology, or health economics is required
• Education and Languages: Fluent English is required; additional languages are advantageous

Benefits

• 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 addition to Humanitarian Leaves
• Broad Variety of learning platforms
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
• No Meeting Days Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone
• Employee Referral Program
• Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 days)

About ICC in Takeda

Takeda is leading a digital revolution. We’re not just transforming our company; we’re improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day. As an organization, we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the ICCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.

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Takeda is an industry-leading, global pharmaceutical company with an unwavering dedication to putting patients at the center of everything we do. We live our values of Takeda-ism – Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance – and are united by our mission to strive towards Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine. Here, everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. At Takeda, you will make an impact on people’s lives – including your own.

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