Sr Mgr, Commercial Content SME

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Job Description

About the Role

Provide enterprise-level commercial subject matter expertise to ensure promotional content, campaigns, and agency outputs align with brand strategy, customer engagement priorities, regulatory standards, and commercial objectives

Key Responsibilities

Commercial standards: Define and maintain enterprise commercial content standards, including messaging frameworks, brand voice, and omnichannel alignment expectations

Cross-functional guidance: Act as SMEs to advise other brand, marketing, content operations teams on vendor selection / management / relationships, setting and enforcing best practices to ensure commercial objectives are reflected consistently across campaigns and asset portfolios

Strategic content oversight: Provide expert review and guidance on high-impact promotional materials to ensure alignment with brand strategy, customer journey objectives across HCP and DTC, lifecycle stage priorities, and field execution needs

Agency governance: Partner with Agency Performance Managers to evaluate agency commercial quality, provide feedback on creative and strategic outputs, and drive corrective action when standards are not met

Capability development: Contribute to development of commercial playbooks, launch excellence standards, and training materials for brand teams and agencies

Qualifications and essential experience, attributes, skills, and knowledge

Bachelor’s degree required, Preferred Advanced degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related).

5–8+ years' experience in commercial strategy, marketing operations, or agency management in the pharma or healthcare sector

Direct ownership of HCP and/or DTC campaigns

Direct experience working in regulated pharma environments

Brand-focused and customer-centric mindset

High accountability for quality, compliance, and cost efficiency

Collaborative and enterprise-minded, comfortable influencing without direct authority

Skilled at navigating Medical and Commercial priorities

Excellent communication skills, capable of ensuring clarity and understanding across diverse markets and stakeholders

Cross-functional stakeholder management and alignment

Strong knowledge of marketing strategy incl. omnichannel activation and HCP and DTC engagement models

Understanding of modular content and asset reuse methodologies

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, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$137,000.00 - $215,270.00

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.

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.

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Locations

Lexington, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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