Takeda
Pharmaceutical
AD,MarketingCapabilities
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“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.
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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