Sr. Manager, Strategy Enablement and Planning

Takeda; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Flexible work arrangements

Comprehensive healthcare

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Takeda in Bengaluru, India leads a digital transformation journey within its GCC. This role focuses on building and governing the evidence strategy and planning portfolio, coordinating with global teams, and driving high-quality outputs for evidence records and benchmarking activities.

You will oversee a growing team, align with global partners, and ensure rigorous governance while supporting scalable operations and new capabilities in the evidence domain.

Qualifications

• 10–12+ years of related work experience in biopharma.
• Experience in evidence strategy support and HEOR operations.
• Experience managing teams or senior contributors preferred.
• Knowledge of evidence planning, IEP governance, and scenario planning.
• familiarity with evidence repository standards and metadata governance.
• Fluent English; additional languages advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support the establishment and deployment of the GCM Evidence Strategy & Planning team.
• Manage a growing team of Strategy & Planning Leads.
• Oversee quality and consistency of GCM evidence strategy outputs across the team.
• Review team outputs before distribution to Global Evidence Generation stakeholders.
• Monitor workload and adjust prioritization across concurrent IEPs and planning workstreams.

Skills

Senior leadership

Biopharma experience

Evidence strategy

IEP governance

Stakeholder management

Education

Scientific/medical/health economics degree

Tools

Veeva Vault or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India's epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda's recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

At Takeda's GCC we Unite in Diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team

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, including defining repository standards, naming conventions, metadata requirements, access controls, and retention categories 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 the initial build phase, before team capacity is fully established
• Identify and resolve early-stage process gaps, ambiguities in scope boundaries between GCM and Global Evidence 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 scope once at steady state, including IEP maintenance, evidence record management, reuse assessments, PRO/COA benchmarking, and HA & Payer launch and scenario planning support
• Review team outputs before distribution to Global Evidence Generation stakeholders; resolve operational and process issues within the team and elevate scientific, strategic, or compliance questions to the US organization as appropriate
• Monitor workload distribution across concurrent IEPs, reuse requests, benchmarking needs, and planning workstreams; 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 skill gaps 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 the GCM Evidence Generation Strategy & Operations Enablement Group Lead (Associate Director)
• Coordinate with GCM Evidence Generation Strategy & Operations Enablement Group Lead (Associate Director) to confirm strategic question framing, scientific scope boundaries, and escalation thresholds before GCM activity is initiated
• Flag operational risks, capacity constraints, recurring process gaps, or scope boundary issues to the GCM Evidence Generation Strategy & Operations Enablement Group Lead (Associate Director) in a timely manner

Qualifications:

• Experience: 10-12+ years of related work experience; >8 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 environment strongly 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:

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
• Employee Assistance Program
• 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 calendar days)
  

ABOUT GCC 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 GCCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.

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Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time