Job Description

About the role:

Join Takeda as a Sr. Manager of our Promotional Review Team where you'll be responsible for leading a team of 8 Analysts serving as a strategic business liaison across functional stakeholders (e.g. Commercial, Medical, Legal and Regulatory) to efficiently and effectively facilitate Takeda's advertising and promotional material review process (PRT) and drive PRT alignment with commercial strategies and priorities.

How you will contribute:
• Manage and coach a team of PRT Ops Analysts, providing guidance, direction, and constructive feedback while removing barriers to success
• Work closely with senior leadership to ensure PRT operations integrate seamlessly with Agile Marketing Delivery
• Coordinate and facilitate effective and efficient PRT review meetings and other activities to support a review track as needed, managing the needs of cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support the planning and execution of effective quarterly business reviews to showcase scope of outputs completed during the review cycle, identify opportunities for improvement, and celebrating successes
• Manage review track assignments as well as manage adjustments to PRT hours, ensuring the commitments of the team match the evolving priorities of the business
• Work with assigned Takeda brand teams to understand commercial strategies, identify important upcoming projects/events, and anticipate resulting business needs and priorities for advertising and promotional material development, review and approval.
• Establish and maintain strategic trusting relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, guiding and influencing collaborative activities and mutual decision-making.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities for PRT process improvement.
• Exhibit a solid foundation in Leadership abilities - strategic thinking, innovation, collaboration, and focus.
• Foster a culture of trust, transparency, and collaboration among the team

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Team Management - 40%
• Understanding of commercial strategy, business needs and upcoming key initiatives/ events across the enterprise.
• Anticipate challenges and offer recommendations and solutions to franchise brand project owners.
• Work with PRT Ops Analysts to plan and deliver quarterly business reviews
• Handle the administrative workstreams needed to ensure smooth team functioning (e.g. providing access to new hires, maintaining quality control on process documentation, etc.)
• Manage and track high priority items and coordinate with the production team to ensure items are approved in a timely manner.
• Communicate timely and accurate information about project progress across teams in order to prioritize and meet timeline and quality standards.
• Actively participate in internal Marketing Services team meetings.

Process - 20%
• Develop and maintain subject matter expertise on the advertising and promotional materials review and approval process (PRT) and support Veeva Vault system (e.g. routing, approval and production of marketing tools).
• Maintain working knowledge of and adherence to relevant internal Takeda policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and guidelines (e.g. corporate branding, corporate and commercial operations compliance, promotional material development guidelines).
• Reguarly assess existing SOPs and submission standards to keep up to date while identifying areas that require updating to enable greater efficiencies without sacrificing quality
• Identify and share best practices and lessons learned to enhance overall functional and business successes.
• Prioritize and multi-task to enhance productivity and manage workload in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Deliver training with internal and external PRT stakeholders as needed and serve as a "go to resource" for PRT needs.
• Share PRT process metrics with assigned franchise brand(s) and coordinate with Marketing Services Manager to provide insights and discuss improvement opportunities with relevant brand teams.
• Continuously identify and recommend process innovations with a focus on optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of the support provided to the franchise brand teams (e.g. yield improved customer satisfaction, reduce review cycle time).

Stakeholder Management - 40%
• Coordinate with assigned Takeda brand teams to understand commercial strategies, identify important upcoming projects/events, and anticipate resulting business needs and priorities for advertising and promotional material development, review and approval.
• Provide active support and drive understanding of cross functional review team - Commercial, Medical, Legal, and Regulatory - guiding review meeting activities and helping to create solutions to address business needs.
• Establish common ground between team members with divergent views and goals.
• Strengthen partnerships with franchise brand teams and reviewers through excellent customer service, promoting the vision and value of the Marketing Services team.
• Encourage accountability and responsibility that enables others to act with integrity.
• Provide training of all partners on PRT process and expectations.
• Escalate issues to senior leadership as necessary to help break down barriers

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Exhibits Takeda's leadership behaviors (strategic thinking, elevate capabilities, inspire others, deliver priorities)
• Demonstrates important, creative thinking and problem-solving skills, and the ability to produce clear and concise written and verbal communications.
• Demonstrates effective facilitation skills to ensure understanding across cross-functional stakeholders and ability to influence without authority.
• Demonstrates market-specific knowledge (e.g. Takeda products, competitors, disease state, customer types) and knowledge of existing and latest technologies within functional areas.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment, manage several projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and communicate potential conflicts to leadership.
• Demonstrates understanding and experience with implementing and ensuring compliance with procedural requirements for government reporting - Sunshine Act for Healthcare professionals.
• Exhibits a high degree of customer service and relationship building abilities.
• Exhibits a high degree of cross-functional customer service and relationship building abilities.
• Demonstrates highly results-oriented focus on creating measurable value for brand teams and the patients they support.

COMPLEXITY AND PROBLEM SOLVING
• Make complex decisions involving multiple constituencies using fact-based analysis.
• Prioritize based on agreed business needs and related budgets.
• Quickly assess important situations and identify issue resolution.
• Define processes and guidelines that can be applied across all franchise teams.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

Required
• 6+ years in pharma industry
• Bachelor's Degree
• People management experience
• Project management and organizational skills
• Direct experience working in regulated pharma environments specifically in a role pertinent to promotional review or regulatory
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred
• Master's degree
• Experience working with advertising and promotional process
• Marketing experience preferred
• Experience working in regulated operations environment preferred
• Experience working with cross-functional groups and teams to achieve common goals preferred
• Veeva Vault experience

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