Takeda

Pharmaceutical

AD,MarketingCapabilities

$154–243k Lexington, Massachusetts, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Director candidates.

The Brief

“AD, Marketing Capabilities at Takeda. Skills: Brand strategy, Marketing capabilities, Enablement, Coaching. Build and sustain enterprise brand marketing capability. Diagnose skill and capability gaps”

What You'll Achieve.

Improve quality, consistency, and impact; Deliver commercial excellence; Better outcomes for patients; Improve quality and consistency of strategic; Increase impact

Industry & Context.

Pharmaceutical
Problems you'll solve

Problem-solving; Analytical skills; Critical thinking

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years of experience, 5+ years marketing brand experience, Demonstrated ability to influence senior-level stakeholders, Lead through change, Interpersonal skills, Communication skills, Facilitation skills, Proven experience designing and delivering applied learning, Coaching marketers and brand leads, Define and track impact metrics, Strategic thinking, Critical thinking, Problem-solving skills, Analytical skills, Organizational skills, Planning skills, Project management skills, Budget/resource management experience, Building workplans, Managing vendor/partner support, Effective leadership, Collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams, Developing others through coaching and feedback

Nice to Have

MS/MBA advanced degree preferred, Experience across stages of a brand’s life cycle, Experience leading/enabling Annual Brand Planning, Experience partnering with launch teams, Exposure to Agile ways of working, Exposure to marketing transformation initiatives

What You'll Do.

Build and sustain enterprise brand marketing capability

Diagnose skill and capability gaps

Deliver enablement (training

facilitated work sessions

and impact of brand strategy

Improve in-market execution

Partner and advise brand and launch teams

Advise on core marketing capabilities

Tailor support to brand maturity

Define and evolve marketing competencies

Establish and maintain marketing competency model

Identify capability priorities

Inform development plans

Design learning pathways and curriculum

Build curated learning pathways

and new learning modalities

Develop training programs

Evolve modalities to improve adoption

Coach brand and launch leaders

Facilitate strategy working sessions and deliverables

Partner on high-value deliverables

Support launch readiness and launch outputs

Identify capability needs

Translate needs into scalable enablement solutions

Contribute to Brand Capabilities roadmap

Enable best practice sharing

Enable change management

Facilitate connections and sharing of best practices

Build a culture of continuous improvement

Measure impact and continuously improve

Define and track capability KPIs

Enable annual brand planning

Support Annual Brand Planning

Monitor capability evolution through Agile transformation

Track how marketing and content operations capabilities are

Provide inputs to transformation leads

Manage resource requirements

Establish project plans and timelines

Oversee budget to deliver against priorities

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Brand leadership; Cross-functional partners; Brand teams; Launch teams; Multi-disciplinary teams

Communication Scope

Interpersonal skills; Communication skills; Facilitation skills; Story lining

Process & Methodology

Project management, Agile transformation

Full Job Description

By clicking the “Apply” button, I understand that my employment application process with Takeda will commence and that the information I provide in my application will be processed in line with Takeda’s [Privacy Notice](https://jobs.takeda.com/privacynotice) and [Terms of Use](https://www.takeda.com/terms-and-conditions/). I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge. ## **Job Description** **About the role** **How you will contribute** This role builds and sustains enterprise brand marketing capability by diagnosing skill and capability gaps and delivering enablement (training, workshops, facilitated work sessions, and coaching) that improves the quality, consistency, and impact of brand strategy and in-market execution. Working closely with brand leadership (Sr. Product Managers through Franchise Heads) and cross-functional partners (e.g., Analytics & Insights, Managed Markets, Patient & Market Access, Medical), the Associate Director helps teams apply a common marketing language, best-practice tools, and measurement approaches to deliver commercial excellence and better outcomes for patients. * **Partner and advise brand and launch teams:** Serve as a strategic partner to brand teams and cross-functional stakeholders on core marketing capabilities (e.g., insights generation, product positioning, customer engagement strategy, measurement), tailoring support to brand maturity (launch, growth, LOE) and business context. * **Define and evolve marketing competencies:** Establish and maintain a role-based marketing competency model with proficiency levels and an assessment approach across the US marketing community; identify capability priorities and inform development plans. * **Design learning pathways and curriculum:** Build curated learning pathways by capability area (e.g., insight-to-strategy, positioning, segmentation, customer experience planning, measurement) with clear learning objectives, app

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