Associate Director, Enterprise Strategy, Patient and Market Access
Lexington, KY - USA
Job Summary
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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 Takedas 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. Youll work across the full U.S. portfolio shaping how Takeda prepares for future market shifts. You will serve as a strategicproblem solver integrator and thought partnerhelping 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 PAMAs 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
- Bachelors degree required Masters preferred
- 7 yearsofexperiencein 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 connectenterprise levelinsights across brands channels and capabilities.
- Experience working within matrixed environments withcross functionalteams (Commercial A&I HEOR Patient Services Trade Medical).
- Strong analytical communication storytelling andexecutive readypresentation 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 andinfluence acrossPAMA and USBU teams.
- Enterprise Minded sees across silos and aligns tactics tolong-termenterprise goals.
- Action Oriented capable of operationalizing strategy into structured workplans andcross functionalexecution.
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 hybridin accordance withTakedas 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 MAU.S. Base Salary Range:
$154400.00 - $242550.00
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 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
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression parental status national origin age disability citizenship status genetic information or characteristics marital status status as a Vietnam era veteran special disabled veteran or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws and any other characteristic protected by law.
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Lexington MAWorker Type
EmployeeWorker Sub-Type
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About Company
Takeda is a patient-focused, R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing Better Health and a Brighter Future.