Market Research Lead

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Job Description

About the role

As Market Research Head, you will shape how insights drive decisions across Takeda’s IBU organisation. You will lead the evolution of market research strategies, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and innovative approaches that translate insights into impactful actions.

You will act as a trusted partner to the Dermatology business, supporting a key launch product by delivering meaningful insights that guide strategic decisions and improve speed to action. This role plays a central part in advancing Takeda’s insight-to-action ambition while driving simplification and continuous improvement across market research practices.

How you will contribute

• Lead and standardise market research methodologies across therapy areas, ensuring consistency, quality, and faster delivery of insights

• Guide and support colleagues across the Insights & Analytics network, building capabilities and strengthening best practices

• Define clear standards for insight generation, storytelling, and knowledge sharing to maximise reuse and business impact

• Manage vendor partnerships and budgets, optimising cost, quality, and efficiency across projects

• Drive innovation in market research, leveraging new technologies (including AI) and alternative delivery models to enhance insight generation

• Ensure governance and adoption of consistent processes, tools, and reporting standards across markets

• Partner closely with the Dermatology team to shape and deliver an insight strategy aligned with business priorities and launch needs

• Provide a strong external perspective, bringing forward customer and market insights to challenge thinking and enable better decisions

• Coordinate competitive intelligence activities and promote a proactive, self-service approach to market monitoring

What you bring to Takeda

• 8–10+ years of relevant experience in market research, insights & analytics, commercial excellence, or related functions, including significant hands-on delivery of primary market research and interpretation of insights to inform business decisions

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree (e.g. MBA or MSc) preferred. Fluency in English required

• Proven experience operating across multiple markets within pharma/biopharma or a similarly complex, regulated environment, with a strong understanding of commercial strategy, product lifecycle, and launch dynamics

• Track record of driving harmonised ways of working, scaling best practices, and embedding new methodologies across regions or teams, including vendor consolidation and process optimisation

• Ability to engage, challenge, and influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without direct authority, acting as a trusted partner in shaping strategic decision

• Strong ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights, with a focus on enabling decision-making, prioritisation, and measurable business impact

• Proven ability to operate effectively in a matrix organisation, balancing competing priorities, managing budgets, and aligning stakeholders across global, regional, and local levels

• Experience selecting and managing research agencies and partners, ensuring quality, cost efficiency, and fit-for-purpose methodologies across diverse project types

• Curiosity and drive to explore new approaches, including digital tools and AI-enabled methodologies, to enhance insight generation and efficiency

• Ability to synthesise complex information into clear, compelling narratives tailored to executive audiences, supporting faster and better decision-making

Locations

GBR - Paddington

Base Salary Range:

£84,800.00 - £116,600.00

For information about our benefits, please click here.

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time