Associate Director, Scientific & Competitive Analysis, Global Oncology

Takeda; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda is seeking an Associate Director, Scientific & Competitive Analysis in Global Oncology. This role partners with Commercial and R&D teams to deliver integrated CI insights across sources, guiding brand strategies and clinical development plans.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage CI projects, and ensure consistency of CI assumptions across functions and regions. The position requires advanced CI expertise, strong leadership, and a track record in coordinating competitive landscape

Qualifications

• BS in a life science; MS/MBA/PhD or equivalent, 7+ years in healthcare with pharma development exposure
• Strong knowledge of CI techniques and information resources
• Advanced CI processes, ethics and compliance knowledge
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing strategic decisions
• Proven ability to synthesize primary and secondary CI data for strategic decisions

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to predict and plan CI-driven solutions for brands and pipeline
• Develop competitive landscape analyses and integrated insights for commercial and R&D partners
• Coordinate conferences' competitive coverage and deliver actionable intelligence to stakeholders
• Collaborate with US and international market insights and forecasting teams for aligned strategic decisions
• Drive CI projects from planning to execution with strong program management

Skills

Competitive intelligence

Leadership

Market analysis

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Project management

PowerPoint

Excel

Education

BS in life science; MS/MBA/PhD or equivalent

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Outlook

Word

Job description

Job Description

Associate Director, Scientific & Competitive Analysis, Global Oncology

Takeda Pharmaceutical

Cambridge, MA

About the role:

This position will be responsible for consulting with Commercial and R&D teams as a strategic partner in achieving and maintaining competitive leadership. The role will be leading, creating and delivering integrated insights across multiple sources. The position is expected to bring competitive analysis consulting expertise with strong leadership in market analysis, brand planning, situation analysis, project management and cross-functional alignment skills. The role will also be serving as a Competitive Intelligence (CI) function expert to Commercial and R&D organizations to provide competitive landscaping and analysis to inform brand strategies, clinical development strategies for pipeline, disease area strategies and Business Development and external partnership opportunities.

This position leverages technical expertise to project manage and provide operational excellence, to the following:

• Engage consultative influence
• Create cross-source insights, recommendations and alignment for action
• Develop competitive landscape analysis, business need understanding, knowledge gap identification, primary and/or secondary CI to fill prioritized gaps
• Communicate those integrated insights to relevant stakeholders across Takeda with urgency
• Leverage data and specialty expertise in Competitive Intelligence external analysis, with internal market planning, business development, strategic or tactical work streams for long-term and short-term impact.

Responsibilities associated with commercial insights include leading cross-functional teams in predicting and planning solutions to achieve successful execution, driving the team to achieve clarity on issues and action. This requires the ability to exercise decisiveness in selecting critical strategic elements of executive decisions, collaboration and alignment in methods for study of strategic elements, prioritization of competing strategic/tactical needs, strong budget/scope/program management, strong consultative influence skills, strong skills in identifying competitive strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Advanced understanding of CI processes, methods, industry ethics and compliance, and specialty biologics is required, as well as bench strengths in CI execution for strategic-to-tactical recommendations.

How you will contribute:

• Proactively identifies strategic and tactical CI needs of brands and pipeline, establishing both long-range and short-term business impact.
• Collaboratively prioritizes and builds a CI plan (KITs, KIQs), integrated with primary market research, analytics and cross-functional teams.
• Lead the coordination, planning and execution of competitive coverage at assigned conferences
• Provide brand partners with actionable intelligence about the competitive environment with a focus on opportunities and threats that could impact Takeda’s portfolio
• Contribute to the development and/or assessment of new products and services to be offered by Scientific & Competitive Analysis
• Work to continually improve the business processes of the Scientific & Competitive Analysis team and of key customer groups.
• Ensures that Global CI assumptions are consistent across functions as well as regions. Where assumptions differ, understand the reasons for the differences and communicates them clearly
• Work closely with US and ex-US based market insights and forecasting colleagues to ensure cohesive and aligned contributions to strategic decisions and planning
• Plan and facilitate key Competitor Workshops (War Games, Gap Analysis, Scenario Planning) within Oncology Business Unit to prepare teams for future potential competitor threats
• Take a leadership role in defining and executing the necessary competitive intelligence activities required to generate insights that support global clinical development and commercialization of Takeda Oncology’s current portfolio as well as future business development.
• Creates and communicates to stakeholders a summary of key competitor events impacting Takeda business, CI activities to address these competitor threats as well as CI activities to support and aligned with forecasting process and feeding into market research activities
• Proactively develops and implements new and innovative solutions to meet business needs and resolve business issues.
• Develops, implements, and maintains project management of CI projects
• Build internal stakeholder relationships from a variety of groups (i.e. commercial, medical affairs, patient value and patient access, R&D, corporate communication, patient advocacy)
• Additional duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• BS in a life science; plus MS/MBA/PhD or equivalent, 7+ years of experience in the healthcare industry with exposure to pharmaceutical product development.
• Sound knowledge of primary and secondary research methodologies and of information resources pertinent to the industry
• Sound knowledge of competitive intelligence techniques. Very strong verbal presentation, analytical, and critical thinking skills are essential.
• This role requires an advanced understanding of CI processes, methods, industry ethics and compliance as well as bench strengths in CI execution for strategic-to-tactical recommendations.
• Advanced knowledge of best practices and leadership in specialty pharmaceutical commercial business operations, and the use of CI to drive decision‑making in commercial strategy and tactics to achieve a leadership position.
• Demonstrated leadership in synthesis of primary and secondary CI, forecasting impact, competitive intelligence and data management to advise the development, execution and monitoring of specialty pharmaceutical leadership status.
• Proven ability to negotiate and influence in a consultative role
• Proactive ability to effectively monitor competitive activity, predict probable issues and problem solve (scenario planning)
• Proven consultative influence, communication and presentation skills – organizational, written and verbal
• Expertise in CI research methods as they pertain to integration with specialty pharmaceutical data sources for strategic recommendations
• History of managing multiple tasks of varied complexity simultaneously
• Able to delegate effectively
• Proven advanced skills in utilizing Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Word

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient‑focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life‑changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

This position is currently classified as “hybrid” in accordance with Takeda’s Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

Boston, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$154,400.00 - $242,550.00

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

• U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/or long-term incentives.
• U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well‑being benefits, among others.
• U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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