Evidence Generation TA Lead, Marketed Products

Takeda • Boston, MA

9d • $229,600 - $360,800

About The Position

This Senior Director-level role shapes evidence generation strategy for complex assets and indications within a therapeutic area. The role serves as a strategic and scientific partner, guiding evidence activities from concept through execution, interpretation, and communication. As part of a global team, the position integrates stakeholder insights, emerging data, evolving evidence needs, and changes in healthcare systems to establish priorities across the product lifecycle. The work contributes to decisions related to registration, launch, differentiation, access, lifecycle management, and business objectives. The role aligns global, regional, and local stakeholders to ensure evidence strategies and activities are scientifically rigorous, compliant, and impactful, while strengthening evidence generation capabilities by coaching colleagues and fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Doctorate with at least 11 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with at least 13 years of relevant experience.
• Advanced degree in a relevant scientific, medical, or quantitative field.
• Experience in medical affairs, clinical development, epidemiology, evidence generation, outcomes research, or a related field.
• Significant experience developing evidence strategies that address the needs of multiple stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to lead evidence strategy and cross-functional evidence teams in a highly matrixed global environment.
• Strong understanding of evidence generation across the product lifecycle and its role in stakeholder decisions across geographies.
• Ability to influence without formal authority through strategic thinking, communication, active listening, and stakeholder management.
• Ability to adapt quickly, manage competing priorities, build alignment, and drive delivery through direct and matrixed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead evidence generation strategy by identifying priorities and developing integrated plans for assigned assets and indications across the product lifecycle.
• Guide cross-functional evidence teams by setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and communicating recommendations, risks, assumptions, and trade-offs.
• Oversee scientific delivery by guiding studies from concept development through execution, interpretation, and communication.
• Provide budget oversight and support evidence generation prioritization for assigned assets and indications.
• Partner across functions to identify high-impact projects that support patients, decision-making, registration, launch, differentiation, access, and value.
• Represent evidence generation in governance forums by presenting strategic recommendations, scenario analyses, and trade-off options.
• Build organizational capability by coaching colleagues and supporting evidence generation contacts for assets or indications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior