Senior manager, scientific communications, global medical affairs oncology

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Job Description

About the Role: The Senior Manager, Scientific Communications is a highly visible strategic leadership role within Takeda Oncology’s Global Medical Affairs Oncology organization, supporting the company's mission to aspire to cure cancer by driving the scientific publications and communications strategy for assigned hematology oncology assets. Reporting to the Scientific Communications Group Lead, Hematology, this individual serves as a subject matter expert in publication best practices and scientific communications, proactively developing and executing comprehensive publication and communication plans aligned with medical strategy, data availability, and transparency requirements.

The role leads cross-functional publication planning teams and collaborates closely with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Outcomes Research, and regional and global stakeholders to deliver high-impact scientific publications and medical communication materials, including manuscripts, congress presentations, scientific slide decks, NCCN and pathway submissions, field medical tools, training materials, digital content, animations, websites, and other scientific resources. The Senior Manager oversees vendors, authors, writers, and external partners, manages program budgets, ensures compliance with global publication standards and scientific rigor, and serves as the primary liaison with key opinion leaders, investigators, and collaborators.

Additionally, this individual leads the development of scientific platforms that establish core scientific messaging and a consistent scientific voice across all communication channels, helping translate complex data into clear, impactful, and compliant scientific narratives that advance Takeda Oncology’s strategic objectives.

How you will contribute:

• Proactively develop, manage, and execute on global or regionally integrated strategic publication plans and scientific communication plans in coordination with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with product medical strategies.
• Have a strong understanding of prioritized disease areas, including landscape and competition.
• Initiate communication with authors; identify all necessary data required for content development; participate in author meetings to facilitate content discussion and ensure appropriate content development process is followed.
• Critically review publications including, but not limited to, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations, for accuracy and scientific rigor; manage and facilitate the content review process, including collating reviewer comments and having discussions with authors and reviewers.
• Commitment to ethical practices in the preparation and dissemination of publications.
• Effectively and consistently communicate the publication and scientific communications strategy, tactical plan, and plan progress to internal business partners; work with vendors and internal technical support groups to evaluate and optimize publications systems for reporting metrics to meet stakeholder needs.
• Manage medical writing agency, including oversight on execution of publications plans and budget, and maintenance of publications management databases such as Datavision.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies for development, internal review, and dissemination of scientific communications materials, and act with commitment to ethical practices in the preparation and dissemination of publications.
• Manage alliance partnerships.
• Evaluate trends in medical publications and drive opportunities for enhanced publications content and amplification of publications to increase value of publications in scientific exchange; lead and/or participate in process development and refinement, as/if needed.
• Lead and/or participate in recruitment of vendors to fill resource gaps.
• Provide guidance and training to colleagues on publication strategy development and tactical execution best practices.
• Coordinate, plan, and manage scientific communications budget for assigned program(s) in close collaboration with GMAO Operations team.
• As needed, provide medical and scientific review of Global Medical Affairs Oncology materials (and, if required, promotional materials) to support the medical (and promotional) review process.
• As a subject matter expert for the assigned programs, lead or contribute to the development of content for Global Medical Affairs projects, including but not limited to, NCCN compendia, training materials, global congress plan, and medical resource tools, as needed.
• Serve as the Global Scientific Communications representative on relevant Global Medical Strategy Team.
• Attend conferences, symposia, or other meetings, as necessary or as assigned, and act as liaison between Global Scientific Communications and external content contributors.

Minimum Requirements /Qualification:

• Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, or equivalent) in a scientific discipline (preferred) or a minimum of Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline plus commensurate long-term experience within pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• 3+ years healthcare or related experience, including 2+ years of experience with the development and execution of medical publications and/or scientific communications materials, within medical affairs in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry or within a medical communications agency, is essential.
• Knowledge of the scientific publication planning processes, current standards of good publication practice (GPP3), pertinent external guidelines related to industry publications (ICMJE), and scientific reporting standards for studies (CONSORT).
• Oncology experience strongly preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work well independently and under pressure.
• Strong capabilities and experience with resource allocation and vendor management.
• Ability to synthesize, interpret, present, and discuss complex medical and scientific data.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical clinical development and product life-cycle management, clinical trial design and execution, statistical methods and clinical clinical trial data reporting requirements.
• Experience in medical communications function, which may include publications, medical information, and/or training.
• Experience with publications management databases such as Datavision.
• Working experience in cross-functional teams and global/local teams within the pharmaceutical or related industry.

Strategic Approach:

Ability to identify opportunities and anticipate changes in the business landscape through an understanding and ongoing assessment of the environment.

Collaboration:

Ability to cultivate a broad network of relationships throughout the organization, connecting global, regional and local organizations. Requires experience and success in working in a matrix, cross-functional environment; excellent collaboration skills; experience working across functions to achieve results.

Engage Others:

Ability to create a clear and unifying vision inspiring teams to excel.

Drive for Results:

Creates functional strategies and goals that are closely aligned with company objectives and develops metrics to track and assess performance.

Creativity and Innovation:

Ability to contribute to data analytics and publication planning, including ideas for sub-analyses.

Compliance and Regulatory:

Excellent understanding of regulatory, compliance and legal requirements.

Technical Skills:

Advanced PC skills, including Datavision, MS Project, Word, Excel, Power Point, and SharePoint.

Travel Requirements:

Up to 10% domestic and international travel required.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

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For Location:

Boston, MA U.S.

Base Salary Range:

$151,100.00 - $237,490.00

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.

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Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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