Global Insights Lead, Neuroscience Assets & Programs
About The Position
Takeda is hiring a Global Insights Lead, Neuroscience Assets & Programs, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The role leads assigned insight-generation and competitive-intelligence projects for neuroscience assets and programs, with a core focus on Takeda’s Neuroscience Franchise. It owns project scoping, research design, vendor selection and management, execution, synthesis, and delivery of decision-oriented recommendations to inform clinical development and early commercialization strategy, within priorities agreed with the Head of Neuroscience Insights. As an insights thought partner on the Global Commercial Team, the role independently leads assigned research and competitive-intelligence workstreams and is accountable for the quality, timeliness, and relevance of deliverables. It recommends actions concerning study design, endpoint selection, positioning, and early commercial strategy. Franchise priorities and resource trade-offs are aligned with the Head of Neuroscience Insights; final clinical and commercial decisions remain with accountable cross-functional leaders. The role partners across neuroscience indication teams to integrate insights and support a consistent franchise perspective, and applies commercialization and launch experience to assigned launch-readiness workstreams. Its accountability is for insights delivery and recommendations, not overall franchise strategy, launch execution, or franchise-wide capability building. The position is part of the Global Insights & Analytics team within Takeda’s Strategy & Portfolio Development function.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 8–10+ years of experience in market research, insights, forecasting, analytics, or strategy required.
- Experience supporting drug development and/or commercialization, including launch or inline experience.
- Experience contributing to patient-based forecasts, including developing and validating inputs and assumptions and tracking changes over time.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to launch strategy or commercial readiness efforts.
- Strong analytical, synthesis, and communication skills.
- Ability to translate data and competitive intelligence into actionable strategy.
- Experience bridging clinical development and commercialization to inform decision-making across the asset lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of generating insights that impact both early-stage strategy and downstream execution.
- Ability to integrate insights across assigned indications and contribute to franchise-level thinking without owning overall franchise strategy.
- Ability to lead collaborative, influence-based projects independently within agreed priorities and escalate decisions beyond assigned scope.
Nice To Haves
- MBA, PharmD, or PhD preferred.
- Background in strategic consulting or competitive intelligence strongly preferred.
- Experience in Neuroscience/Neuropsychiatry or specialty care is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research for assigned assets and indications to understand treatment landscapes, unmet needs, and treatment dynamics.
- Manage project plans, vendors, timelines, and assigned research budgets within agreed approvals.
- Monitor competitors, pipeline developments, and evolving standards of care for assigned programs; identify implications and escalate material risks or changes.
- Integrate research and competitive intelligence into clear implications and recommendations for cross-functional teams.
- Provide evidence-based recommendations to inform indication strategy, study design, endpoints, and positioning in partnership with accountable clinical and commercial leaders.
- Inform the Clinical Development Plan and early commercial strategy with insight-driven perspectives.
- Contribute insights and analyses to target product profiles, business cases, and strategic narratives, and support defined launch-readiness workstreams.
- Own the development, documentation, and ongoing review of insight-based inputs and assumptions for patient-based forecasts for assigned assets and indications.
- Partner with forecasting teams to validate assumptions, assess model outputs, and track changes over time within established forecasting governance.
- Support scenario analysis and stakeholder alignment; recommend assumption updates for review by accountable forecasting and business leaders.
- Serve as insights lead for assigned orexin workstreams, deliver against agreed priorities, and escalate scope, resource, or strategic trade-offs to the Head of Neuroscience Insights.
- Partner with R&D, Medical, Commercial, and regional teams to translate business questions into research priorities and coordinate insights across assigned indications.
- Communicate clear, data-driven perspectives to support decision-making.
- Integrate insights across assigned indications and contribute to franchise-level thinking without owning overall franchise strategy.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
