Takeda

Senior Manager, Media Architect 

Takeda$137K — $215K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related).
  • 7+ years of digital media planning experience with ownership of omnichannel strategy in the pharmaceutical or healthcare sector.
  • Proven leadership skills, managing priorities and cross-functional collaboration effectively.
  • Direct experience in regulated pharmaceutical environments.
  • Strong strategic thinking and commercial acumen.
  • Exceptional communication skills for cross-team collaboration.
  • Deep understanding of content development and pharma content lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement DTC and HCP omnichannel media strategies aligned to brand objectives.
  • Oversee media buying and execution to ensure effective campaign delivery.
  • Act as primary account lead for media agency partners, managing performance and fostering innovation.
  • Coordinate deployment across digital and field channels, ensuring alignment with brand strategy.
  • Optimize media investments by managing channel roles and budgets for upper and lower funnel engagement.
  • Establish KPIs to measure ROI on media spend, developing frameworks for continuous optimization.
  • Support RFP design for media initiatives in collaboration with procurement teams.

Benefits

  • Eligibility for short-term and/or long-term incentives.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options available.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Tuition reimbursement program to support ongoing education.
  • Paid volunteer time off to encourage community involvement.
  • Up to 120 hours of paid vacation and 80 hours of sick time annually.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Senior Manager,Media Architect
Takeda Pharmaceutical
Lexington, MA

About the Role

Design data-driven omnichannel media strategies that maximize brand growth and customer engagement for DTC and HCP mediastrategies, ensuring strategic alignment, compliance, and performance accountability across internal and external teams

Key Responsibilities 

  • Omnichannel strategy: Design holistic DTC and HCP media plan aligned to brand strategy/ objectives, ensuring appropriate spend against upper and lower funnel engagement, channel mix, and budget ​ 

  • Media buying: Oversee media buying and placement, ensuring effective campaign execution, audience prioritization, and fulfillment of deliverables ​ 

  • Agency / Vendor: Serve as the primary account lead for media agency partners, maximizing MROI by managing performance, fostering innovation, providing independent perspective, and maintaining strong top-to-top relationships ​ 

  • Orchestration: Ensure coordinated deployment across field and digital channels across related campaigns and collaborate with brand leads and scrum teams on execution (e.g., ensuring media placement is aligned to strategy)​ 

  • Cross-channel planning: Plan and optimize cross-channel media investments /budget by defining and manage channel roles, sequencing, and investment mix –ensuring appropriate media spend against upper and lower funnel conversion ​ 

  • Performance measurement: Establish measurement plans (e.g., KPIs) to maximize ROI in commercial / media spend and develop test-and-learn frameworks to inform in-sprint optimizations, partnering with I&A team to perform analytics to translate test insights into actions  

  • Procurement: Support design Requests for Proposal (RFP) associated with media, working closely with the procurement team and internal media CoE 

 

 

Qualifications and essential experience, attributes, skills, and knowledge​ 

  • Bachelor’s degree required, Preferred Advanced degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related). 

  • 7+ years of digital media planning experience with ownership of omnichannel strategy or execution in the pharmaceutical or healthcare sector ​ 

  • Proven leadership of media teams with demonstrated ability to guide workload, priorities, and cross-functional collaboration​ 

  • Direct experience working in regulated pharma environments

  • Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen​

  • Structured and data-driven decision-making capability​

  • Collaborative across analytics, brand, and agency partners​

  • Skilled at navigating Medical and Commercial priorities

  • Exceptional communicationskill, with the ability to collaborate across teams and influence stakeholders​

  • Omnichannel media planning across HCP and DTC environments​

  • Media agency leadership and performance management

  • Deep understanding of content development strategies and execution, with ability to translate complex ideas into action​

  • Strong knowledge of pharma content lifecycle management​

  • Understanding of MMM, MROI, incrementality testing frameworks​

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:

$137,000.00 - $215,270.00


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

About Takeda

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a global pharmaceutical company that develops and markets pharmaceutical products. The company's products are used to treat a wide range of medical conditions, including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, respiratory diseases, and cancer. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited was founded in 1781 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company has operations in more than 80 countries and employs more than 49,000 people worldwide.
Learn more about Takeda
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