Associate Director, Enterprise Strategy, Patient and Market Access

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Job Description

The Associate Director, Enterprise Strategy, Patient and Market Access is a high-visibility, cross-portfolio role at the center of how Takeda's U.S. market access function thinks, plans, and operates. Reporting to the Senior Director of Enterprise Strategy, this position is the connective tissue across PAMA — translating external market forces, internal insights, and enterprise priorities into coordinated enterprise strategy and execution.

This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of big-picture thinking and practical delivery. You'll work across the full U.S. portfolio, shaping how Takeda prepares for future market shifts.   You will serve as a strategic problem solver, integrator, and thought partner—helping translate external trends, internal insights, and enterprise priorities into actionable strategy and coordinated execution.

How You will Contribute

Lead Enterprise Access Strategic Initiatives

• Identify, refine, and prioritize PAMA's enterprise access strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with USBU direction and core access challenges and opportunities
• Design and execute cross-portfolio access strategies that cut across brands, channels, and patient segments
• Develop briefing materials, white papers, and strategic recommendations that guide senior leadership decisions

Anticipate and Shape Response to Future Market Shifts

• Conduct ongoing landscape scanning across payer, channel, employer, regulatory, and ecosystem trends — translating them into enterprise-level strategic implications
• Build shared organizational vision around major future marketplace shifts affecting access, coverage, and patient affordability
• Develop and maintain strategic action plans in response to anticipated shifts, driving execution where appropriate
• Partner with Access Strategy, Trade, Pricing & Policy, Patient Services, Analytics & Insights, and Commercial colleagues to ensure enterprise strategy is actionable and consistently adopted

Strategic Planning & Portfolio Alignment

• Partner with the Senior Director to ensure access strategies are cohesive across franchises, channels, and patient populations
• Participate in enterprise annual planning, long-range strategy cycles, and future-state capability building
• Develop templates, frameworks, and enterprise roadmaps that operationalize strategic priorities and create consistency across business units

Leadership Support & Enterprise Communications

• Prepare enterprise strategy materials, leadership updates, and executive presentations for senior audiences
• Support governance forums including enterprise steering committees, cross-functional meetings, and PAMA LT review sessions
• Drive consistent, high-quality communication across internal stakeholders — enabling transparency, alignment, and informed decision-making

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred
• 7+ years of experience in U.S. Market Access, Payer Strategy, Channel Strategy, HEOR/Policy, or Enterprise Strategy roles required. 
• Strong understanding of U.S. payer archetypes, PBMs, SP networks, employer dynamics, and access innovation models. 
• Demonstrated ability to connect enterprise level insights across brands, channels, and capabilities. 
• Experience working within matrixed environments with cross functional teams (Commercial, A&I, HEOR, Patient Services, Trade, Medical). 
• Strong analytical, communication, storytelling, and executive ready presentation skills. 
• Strategically Oriented — capable of connecting ecosystem trends to enterprise implications. 
• Insight Driven — comfortable distilling analytics, policy, and market intelligence into clear recommendations. 
• Collaborative — able to align and influence across PAMA and USBU teams. 
• Enterprise Minded — sees across silos and aligns tactics to long-term enterprise goals. 
• Action Oriented — capable of operationalizing strategy into structured workplans and cross functional execution. 

More About Us

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work. 

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world. 

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:

$154,400.00 - $242,550.00

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. 

EEO Statement

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Locations

Lexington, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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