Job Description

Manager, DTC Bid Execution Specialist
Takeda Pharmaceutical
Lexington, MA

Position Summary

Provide enterprise DTC bidding and optimization guidance by setting execution standards, advising teams on performance levers, and scaling cross-brand learnings to improve efficiency, measurement quality, and compliant activation

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain paid DTC execution standards: Maintain best practices for paid DTC activation (including campaign structuring principles, targeting approaches, bid strategy guidance) that teams and agencies can apply consistently across brands

• Translate strategy into executable guidance: Convert DTC strategy intent into recommended platform setup patterns and checklists, and advise teams on design choices and tradeoffs rather than building campaigns directly

• Provide consultative optimization support: Serve as the operational point of contact for bid strategy, pacing, and targeting questions; review performance signals and recommend optimization actions for brand teams, agency partners, and Media Architects

• Set trafficking and measurement expectations: Define requirements for trafficking readiness and measurement integrity and guide teams in diagnosing common delivery and tracking issues

• Enable test-and-learn execution: Standardize experiment designs (A/B structures, bid strategy tests, audience/creative rotation tests) and provide templates; document learnings for enterprise playbooks

• Report performance and learnings: Provide standardized performance snapshots and post-sprint/post-campaign readouts; capture learnings and feed them back to Agile pods to inform future plans and the next sprint backlog

• Support compliance and safety: Support compliant DTC activation aligned to internal review governance and FDA standards; flag risk areas and proactively escalate to Media Buy Lead for resolutions

Qualifications and essential experience, attributes, skills, and knowledge

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

• 5-7+ years of experience in pharmaceutical/biopharma/healthcare marketing, communications, advertising, paid media

• Prior experience working with Agency preferred, especially related to knowledge of / experience with bid execution and measurement

• Strong knowledge of bid strategy, campaign optimization, trafficking, and measurement

This position is currently classified as "hybrid" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:
Lexington, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:
$116,000.00 - $182,270.00

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.

Locations
Lexington, MA

Worker Type
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
Regular

Time Type
Full time

Job Exempt
Yes

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.