Global Neuroscience Insights Lead - Assets & Programs

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda is seeking a Global Insights Lead in Cambridge, MA to guide strategic insights and competitive intelligence for Neuroscience assets. You will own research design, vendor management, synthesis, and deliver decision-ready recommendations to inform clinical development and early commercial strategy.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with R&D, Medical, Commercial teams and forecast inputs, helping shape launch readiness and franchise insights across the asset lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, synthesis, and communication skills.
• Background in strategic consulting or competitive intelligence strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting drug development and/or commercialization (launch or inline).
• Experience contributing to patient-based forecasts, including developing and validating inputs and assumptions and tracking changes over time.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to launch strategy or commercial readiness efforts.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research for assigned assets/indications to understand treatment landscapes and unmet need; manage project plans, vendors, timelines, and budgets.
• Monitor competitors, pipeline developments, and evolving standards of care for assigned programs; identify implications and elevate material risks or changes.
• Integrate research and competitive intelligence into clear implications and recommendations for cross-functional teams.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations to inform indication strategy, study design, endpoints, and positioning with clinical/commercial leaders.
• Inform the Clinical Development Plan (CDP) and early commercial strategy with insight-driven perspectives.
• Contribute insights and analyses to target product profiles (TPPs), business cases, and strategic narratives; support defined launch-readiness workstreams.
• Own the development, documentation, and ongoing review of insight-based inputs for patient-based forecasts; partner with forecasting teams for model maintenance.

Skills

Analytical skills

Synthesis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/PhD/PharmD preferred

Job description

Takeda is seeking a Global Insights Lead in Cambridge, MA to guide strategic insights and competitive intelligence for Neuroscience assets. You will own research design, vendor management, synthesis, and deliver decision-ready recommendations to inform clinical development and early commercial strategy.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with R&D, Medical, Commercial teams and forecast inputs, helping shape launch readiness and franchise insights across the asset lifecycle.