Global Medical Core Capability Strategy Lead

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Job Description

The Global Medical Core Capability Strategy Lead is a Director-level expert and the primary design and development lead for Takeda Medical’s global capability architecture. This role builds the intellectual foundation that Medical Excellence operates from, developing the competency frameworks, role archetypes, what good looks like descriptors, and capability roadmap that define what excellence looks like across Medical roles enterprise-wide. The role will be based in either Cambridge MA, or Zurich, Switzerland.

Operating with a TA-agnostic, enterprise-wide lens, this role works in close peer partnership with the Global Scientific Training Leads, IBU Medical Excellence, and the broader Medical Excellence network, ensuring capability frameworks are grounded in clinical and scientific reality and fit for purpose across all BUs and markets. The role is the development and design engine within the Medical Capability Strategy & Operations group, translating the Medical Affairs Vision 2030 agenda into a systematic, evidence-based capability architecture that the Head, Medical Capability Strategy & Operations can then govern, align, and champion across the enterprise.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Capability Framework Design & Development

• Lead the design and development of Takeda Medical’s global competency frameworks, role archetypes, and what good looks like descriptors across all Medical roles, ensuring they are grounded in enterprise needs, scientifically credible, and fit for purpose across all BUs, markets, and therapy areas
• Own the capability maturity model, defining clear progression standards and capability levels that enable structured assessment, development planning, and performance measurement across the global Medical organization
• Continuously evolve the capability architecture in response to changes in the enterprise operating model, portfolio priorities, and the external Medical Affairs landscape, ensuring frameworks remain current and forward-looking

2. Medical Affairs Vision 2030 Capability Roadmap

• Lead the translation of the Medical Affairs Vision 2030 agenda into a systematic, multi-year capability development roadmap for Takeda Medical, defining the future-ready capabilities required and the sequenced development architecture to build them
• Work in close partnership with the Head, Medical Capability Strategy & Operations to ensure the roadmap is aligned to enterprise transformation priorities and can be governed and aligned across Global Medical Leadership, BUs, and markets
• Identify and integrate emerging capability requirements, including data fluency, AI-enabled engagement, omnichannel scientific interaction, and evidence generation, into the capability roadmap ahead of need

3. Performance Standards & Measurement

• Define clear, measurable performance indicators that translate what good looks like descriptors into observable behaviors and outcomes, enabling consistent assessment and development planning across the global Medical organization
• Partner with the Head, Medical Capability Strategy & Operations and the Learning Strategy & Operations team to ensure capability performance measurement is embedded in the Bloom learning ecosystem and, over time, in the CXF platform
• Contribute informed input into how capability data can be structured and leveraged within the CXF program, working with DD&T and the Head, Medical Capability Strategy & Operations to ensure the capability architecture is built into the platform design

4. Stakeholder Co-Creation & Enterprise Partnership

• Work in close peer partnership with the Global Scientific Training Leads to ensure capability frameworks are grounded in scientific training realities and that the capability architecture and scientific training curricula are coherently integrated rather than operating in parallel
• Partner with the Head, Europe & Intercontinental Medical Excellence, IBU Medical Excellence & Operations, US Scientific Training, and OBU Scientific Training to ensure capability frameworks and role archetypes are co-created and fit for purpose across the full range of BU contexts and market operating models
• Engage with Marketing & Commercial Excellence, R&D, and DD&T as key stakeholders in capability design, ensuring Medical capability frameworks reflect the cross-functional expectations of what future-ready Medical Affairs looks like
• Provide capability and skillset development input into Takeda’s Enterprise Engagement model, contributing to the rules of the road that govern how Medical Affairs and Global Development collaborate to support clinical studies, ensuring the underlying capability and skillset requirements are reflected in the Medical capability architecture
• Support the Head, Medical Capability Strategy & Operations in presenting and aligning capability frameworks across Global Medical Leadership and enterprise stakeholders, acting as the subject matter expert and design authority

5. Bloom Content Governance & Programme Development

• Contribute to the governance of the Bloom learning ecosystem by ensuring capability framework content, what good looks like descriptors, and related learning assets are current, well-curated, and aligned to the broader program architecture
• Contribute to building internal capability framework design and development bench strength within the broader Medical Capability Strategy & Operations team, supporting the function’s ambition to operate with greater independence from external vendors over time
• Manage external vendor relationships and content development partnerships supporting capability framework design and development as a complement to internal team capability, with accountability for approximately USD $1-2M annual budget for external capability development spend

DIMENSIONS & ASPECTS

• Deep expertise in competency framework design, capability architecture, talent development strategy, and adult learning principles, with strong understanding of Medical Affairs Vision 2030 and what the capability evolution to 2030 requires in practice across a complex enterprise
• Operates with a TA-agnostic, enterprise-wide strategic lens, working through influence and co-creation across the Medical Excellence network and key BU partners without direct authority, building credibility through expertise, rigor, and the quality of the frameworks produced
• Decision authority within the capability design domain, accountable for the intellectual quality and enterprise fitness of competency frameworks, role archetypes, and what good looks like descriptors, with shared accountability for the broader capability architecture governed by the Head, Medical Capability Strategy & Operations
• Primary relationships: Head, Medical Capability Strategy & Operations (line manager), Global Scientific Training Leads (peer co-creation), Head, Europe & Intercontinental Medical Excellence, IBU Medical Excellence & Operations, US Scientific Training, OBU Scientific Training, MCE, DD&T, R&D, Global Medical Excellence Leads network

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

• MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent advanced scientific or medical degree preferred; relevant healthcare, learning sciences, or organizational development degree required
• 10+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, with significant experience in Medical Affairs
• 6+ years of progressive experience in capability development, Medical Excellence, talent strategy, or closely related roles
• Demonstrated expertise in competency framework design, capability architecture, and performance standards development in a global pharmaceutical context
• Strong understanding of Medical Affairs field roles, scientific engagement, and the Medical and Commercial interface
• Proven ability to influence and build consensus across senior stakeholders without direct authority in a complex, globally distributed matrix environment
• Experience working across Global, BU, Regional, and LOC Medical structures preferred
• Awareness of digital and AI-enabled learning technologies and their application to Medical Affairs capability development

Locations

CHE - Glattpark (Opfikon) - Zurich HQ

Base Salary Range:

CHF189,400.00 - CHF260,480.00

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.

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Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time