Associate Director, PI HCP Marketing

Associate Director, Hcp Marketing

This is an exciting time for the Plasma Derived Therapies business unit, Immune Deficiency and Neuromuscular franchise! Join our launch team as Associate Director, HCP Marketing, where you will be a key leader responsible for helping develop the strategic direction of our newest addition to the IG portfolio as we prepare for a best-in-class launch in PI. This role is highly visible and important, as its remit will span all HCP marketing stakeholders and channels. You will develop and execute tactics likely including but not limited to personal and non-personal promotion, search, professional engagements, and congress presence. You'll work closely with our franchise team to drive brand awareness through paid and earned digital media. Success in the role will depend on effective cross-functional partnership and collaboration. You will also leverage data and insights to inform the decision-making processes and ensure that our strategies are rooted in deep understanding of HCPs' needs and behaviors. You will accomplish all of this through a focus on the end goal of winning for patients. You will report to the Director, USBU PDT Launch Lead.

Partner with the Launch Lead in developing:

• Positioning: brand personality, differentiation, brand pillars
• Campaign: core creative platform, research to inform concept selection

Be the daily lead in the implementation of all HCP pull-through marketing, partnering with multiple internal stakeholders and external agencies.

Partner with SCIG brand team to ensure clarity in brand differentiation.

Partner with Insights & Analytics to sharpen portfolio strategy with this new brand entrant. Distill insights, validate business opportunities, optimize channel mix, and educate HCPs.

Own strategically aligned engagement plans and tactics ensuring successful execution. Collaborate with brand and franchise teams to launch:

• HCP and Access marketing resources
• HCP fee-for-service plan and pull through (advisory boards, speaker programs, consulting)
• P2P strategy and resource development
• National and regional congress plans, including exhibit design/strategy, symposia/product theater content, KOL engagements
• Regional marketing resources as appropriate

Recognize industry/competitive trends to identify brand growth opportunities and identify industry and internal best practices to build organizational capability

Manage multiple agencies from strategic brief ideation through to delivery, holding them accountable to Takeda USBU policies, standards, timelines and budgets

Oversee the direction and deliverables of multiple priorities ensuring internal stakeholder alignment, across agency partners, and cross functional partners including PRT, medical affairs, compliance, and IT

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years' experience with increasing responsibilities in sales, marketing or related function
• 4+ years of dedicated experience engaging with HCPs
• Foster collaboration, and enable teamwork
• Set priorities, develop roles and responsibilities, and manage external partners
• Deep understanding of a brand/franchise strategy and how to effectively engage HCPs; have a strong understanding of business, finance and risks/benefits of decisions
• Experience in marketing strategy and tactic design with an ability to communicate ideas to internal colleagues and external partners
• Broad-based HCP Marketing knowledge from non-personal (e.g., designing/running a CRM program) to field sales (e.g., managing deployment of assets)
• Leverage data and analytics to distill insights and drive data-based decision making

Preferred:

• MBA
• Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Experience working on a product launch
• Experience in PDT, particularly Primary Immunodeficiency
• Experience developing engagement plans for thought leaders / key opinion leader management and ability to comfortably liaise with these customers

Travel:

• Requires approximately 25-40% travel, which includes travel to Cambridge, MA office
• Ability to travel to various internal and external meetings and conferences that could include overnight stays ranging from one to several nights.
• Some weekend travel may be required.

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

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For Location: USA - MA - Cambridge - Kendall Square - 500

U.S. Base Salary Range: $153,600.00 - $241,340.00

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.

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