Evidence Generation Strategy Enablement & Planning Group Lead

Takeda; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Comprehensive healthcare plans

Education & learning programs

Employee assistance program

Leave for volunteering

Job summary

Takeda in Bengaluru seeks a senior leader to establish and scale the GCM Evidence Strategy & Planning team. You will oversee evidence records, governance, and planning support across the portfolio, building capability and ensuring high-quality outputs for the global organization.

The role requires 5+ years in biopharma, strong documentation skills, and experience leading teams in a regulated environment. Hybrid work options and comprehensive benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related work experience; 4+ years in biopharmaceutical industry; experience in evidence strategy support, HEOR operations, scientific documentation, or related evidence management roles; experience managing teams strongly preferred.
• Experience working in a GCM or shared services environment strongly preferred.
• Fluent English and strong organizational skills to coordinate across functions and geographies.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design and establishment of evidence record management processes within GCM, including repository standards and metadata requirements.
• Act as a senior quality reviewer of evidence record centralization and reuse assessment activities during the initial build phase.
• Identify and resolve early-stage process gaps and repository readiness issues before they affect governance.
• Oversee quality and consistency of all GCM evidence strategy & planning outputs across the team’s scope.
• Review outputs before distribution to stakeholders and escalate scientific or compliance questions to the US organization.
• Monitor workload distribution and adjust prioritization and capacity as portfolio demands shift.

Skills

Evidence planning

IEP governance

Metadata governance

Document lifecycle management

Stakeholder management

AI-enabled tools

Education

Life sciences degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Veeva Vault

Job description

Role Objectives

Support the establishment and deployment of the GCM Evidence Strategy &Planning team, initially standing up and operationalizing the evidence record centralization before expanding oversight to the full portfolio of IEP coordination, evidence reuse assessment, PRO/COA benchmarking, and scenario planning support activities as the team scales .

Manage a growing team of Strategy & Planning Leads, ensuring high-quality, consistent execution of evidence planning operations, and helping create seamless transitions across the GCM and Global Evidence Generation Strategy &Planning team on all evidence documentation, governance, and planning support activities .

Key Responsibilities

Initial Capability Build Evidence Records Maintenance

• Support the design and establishment of evidence record management processes within the GCM, includingdefining repository standards, naming conventions, metadata requirements, access controls, and retentioncategories in close coordination with Global Evidence Generation before full GCM transition
• Act as a senior quality reviewer of evidence record centralization and reuse assessment activities during theinitial build phase, before team capacity is fully established
• Identify and resolve early-stage process gaps, ambiguities in scope boundaries between GCM and GlobalEvidence Generation, and repository readiness issues before they affect downstream evidence governance

Evidence Strategy & Planning Operations Oversight

• Oversee quality and consistency of all GCM evidence strategy and planning outputs across the team's full scopeonce at steady state, including IEP maintenance, evidence record management, reuse assessments, PRO/COA benchmarking, andHA & Payer launch and scenario planning support
• Review team outputs before distribution to Global Evidence Generation stakeholders; resolve operational andprocess issues within the team and elevate scientific, strategic, or compliance questions to the US organizationas appropriate
• Monitor workload distribution across concurrent IEPs, reuse requests, benchmarking needs, and planningworkstreams; adjust prioritization and capacity allocation as portfolio demands shift

Team Management

• Manage daily workflow, capacity planning, and prioritization for the Strategy & Planning Leads
• Build team capability through coaching, onboarding, structured training, and performance feedback; identify skillgaps and support individual development as the team scales from initial build to full steady-state capacity
• Ensure clear role delineation and effective handoffs

Stakeholder Coordination & Initial Capability Builds

• Report to theGCM Evidence Generation Strategy & Operations Enablement Group Lead (Associate Director)
• Coordinate withGCM Evidence Generation Strategy & Operations Enablement Group Lead (Associate Director) to confirm strategic question framing, scientific scope boundaries, and escalation thresholds before GCM activity isinitiated
• Flag operational risks, capacity constraints, recurring process gaps, or scope boundary issues to the GCMEvidence Generation Strategy & Operations Enablement Group Lead (Associate Director) in a timely manner

Qualifications

Experience

>>5 years of related work experience; >4 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry; experience in evidence strategy support, HEOR operations, scientific documentation, or related evidence management roles; experience managing teams or senior individual contributors strongly preferred; experience working in a GCM or shared services environmentstrongly preferred .

Technical skills

• Strong working knowledge of evidence planning and IEP governance processes, including evidence records, reuse frameworks, PRO/COA benchmarking (preferred), and scenario planning across the asset lifecycle
• Experience establishing or overseeing evidence repository standards, metadata governance, naming conventions, and document lifecycle management in a regulated pharmaceutical environment (e.g.Veeva Vault or equivalent)
• Strong organizational and stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate across multiple functions, US global teams, and geographies
• Comfort with AI-enabled tools and automation

Education

A scientific, medical, life sciences, or health economics degree is required; an advanced degree is a plus

Languages

Fluent English required; additional languages 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.

Locations

IND - Bengaluru

IND - Bengaluru - Research and Development

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time