Director of Global Publications for Mature Brands

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Takeda Pharmaceuticals Full time
About the Role:

The Director of Global Publications for Mature Brands will be a key strategic partner of the mature brands Medical Affairs team, responsible for developing, prioritizing, and implementing the strategic global publication planning for assigned programs.

This role will work in close collaboration with key stakeholders in MPD, MCE, Region/LOCs, global medical strategy, GPT, global epidemiology and outcomes research (GEO), global medical evidence, and medical communications to ensure alignment with asset strategy.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with external authors and journals for the planning, integration, and execution of R&D publication activities.
  • Ensure that all of Takeda's publication-related activities are conducted according to Takeda's standards, SOPs, and applicable working instructions, and good publication practice guidelines (including but not limited to GPP 2022 Update, ICMJE, CONSORT).
  • Lead the publications team, create, and foster a spirit of cooperation, diversity of opinion, and an environment of psychological safety and open communication in the establishment and execution of annual program strategies, objectives, and priorities.
  • Promote and ensure good publication practices and principles among authors and the internal publication stakeholder community, ensuring high scientific quality and alignment with compliance/legal requirements.
  • Manage 3rd-party vendors and independent contractors to ensure the delivery of quality publications, ensuring that vendors are properly trained to and comply with Takeda's standards, on SOPs, company systems, and tools.
  • Manage all vendor partners to execute the tactical plan effectively and efficiently for their assigned publication projects.
  • Creation, review, and oversight of assigned asset(s) publication budget to support publications plan activities and serve as a financial steward in the creation of publication deliverable approaches and in the use of external vendors.
  • Ensure and communicate regular updates to relevant key stakeholders to facilitate ongoing functional and regional planning and inform dependencies.
Requirements:
  • A higher education degree (M.D., Pharm.D., Ph.D.) or master's degree in biomedical discipline or equivalent with experience in publication management experience and knowledge.
  • 8-10+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience, at least half of which is in Medical Affairs.
  • 5-8+ years' experience in medical publications/communications, or other related areas within the biopharmaceutical industry within a matrix structure, in Medical Affairs or Clinical Development (e.g., clinical scientist, medical information, medical communications, medical information, publications).
  • Understanding of the pharmaceutical drug development process, clinical trial design and execution, statistical methods, and clinical trial data reporting requirements.
  • Knowledge of the scientific publication planning processes, good publication practice (GPP 2022 Update), other publication-related guidelines (ICMJE, COPE), and of scientific reporting standards for studies (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA).
  • Experience of publication management software/systems.
  • Foster diversity of opinion and an environment of open communication and trust.


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