Product Value Lead, PDT

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda in Cambridge, MA is seeking an experienced Product Value Lead for Plasma-Derived Therapies to own the product value strategy and guide decisions across the PDT portfolio. You will connect Commercial, R&D, and Operations to ensure pipeline, launch, and lifecycle strategies maximize commercial value while considering plasma availability and patient needs.

You will collaborate across functions to balance growth opportunities with supply, regulatory, and geographic factors, translating

Qualifications

• Extensive senior-level experience in pharmaceutical or biotech commercial strategy.
• Strong ability to translate strategy into launch and lifecycle plans.
• Proven cross-functional leadership across Commercial, R&D, Operations.
• Financial acumen including pricing, demand planning, and portfolio economics.

Responsibilities

• Own the product value strategy for pipeline and inline assets.
• Drive portfolio decisions that maximize value per liter while balancing plasma availability, yield, manufacturing capacity, and demand.
• Embed commercial and supply considerations early in pipeline decisions.
• Shape development choices, including evidence requirements, launch sequencing, geographic prioritization, and route-of-administration trade-offs.
• Define integrated launch and lifecycle strategies aligned with supply allocation, manufacturing scale-up, regulatory sequencing, and evidence generation.
• Partner with Operations to incorporate plasma forecasts, yield assumptions, and capacity constraints into commercial plans and growth scenarios.

Skills

Commercial strategy

Portfolio management

Global product leadership

Pricing and value optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Job Description

As Product Value Lead, Plasma-Derived Therapies (PDT), you will serve as the end-to-end product value leader for the PDT portfolio, shaping product and portfolio decisions to maximize commercial value across the plasma value chain. You will connect Commercial, R&D, and Operations to ensure pipeline, launch, and lifecycle strategies are commercially compelling, operationally feasible, and grounded in plasma availability, manufacturing capacity, and patient needs.

You will bring commercial value thinking into product decisions early, balancing growth opportunities with supply, manufacturing, regulatory, and geographic considerations. Through enterprise-wide partnership and influence, you will help translate complex trade-offs into clear choices that strengthen portfolio value, patient access, supply continuity, and launch execution.

How you will contribute

• Own the product value strategy for pipeline and inline assets, including positioning, differentiation, value proposition, and pricing logic.
• Drive product and portfolio decisions that maximize value per liter while balancing plasma availability, yield, manufacturing capacity, and demand.
• Embed commercial and supply considerations early in pipeline and development decision-making.
• Shape critical development choices, including evidence requirements, launch sequencing, geographic prioritization, and route-of-administration trade-offs.
• Define integrated launch and lifecycle strategies aligned with supply allocation, manufacturing scale-up, regulatory sequencing, and evidence generation.
• Partner with Operations to incorporate plasma forecasts, yield assumptions, and capacity constraints into commercial plans and growth scenarios.
• Establish global product value frameworks and strategic guardrails, partnering with regional and local operating companies to translate strategy into executable market plans.
• Lead cross-functional Commercial forums and collaborate closely with R&D, Operations, regions, and local operating companies to align product and portfolio decisions.
• Provide forward-looking product value input into long-range portfolio planning, including capacity expansion, innovation, geographic mix, and channel optimization.
• Identify, assess, and escalation risks and trade-offs that could affect portfolio value, patient access, supply continuity, or launch timing.

What you bring to Takeda

• Extensive senior-level experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology commercial strategy, product leadership, portfolio management, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of product value creation across development, launch, and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate commercial strategy with supply, manufacturing, and operational realities.
• Experience leading complex global products or portfolios and making strategic prioritization and trade-off decisions.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including pricing, value optimization, demand planning, and portfolio economics.
• Experience collaborating effectively across Commercial, R&D, Operations, Regulatory, and regional or country organizations.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions in complex, global, cross-functional environments.
• Strong strategic and analytical capabilities, with the ability to translate complex information into clear business decisions.
• Proven leadership skills and the ability to build alignment without direct authority.

Preferred:

• Experience in plasma-derived therapies, biologics, or another supply-constrained product environment.

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For Location:

USA - MA - Cambridge

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$212,000.00 - $333,190.00

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.

EEO Statement

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Locations

USA - MA - CambridgeCHE - Glattpark (Opfikon) - Zurich HQ

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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