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ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Accountable for end-to-end development, alignment, and enterprise pull-through of TA/DA strategies, partnering with TAU and DDU leadership to drive integrated strategic direction and measurable outcomes across the portfolio.

• Accountable for building and continually improving the processes and capabilities underpinning TA/DA strategies, in particular the capabilities to complete rapid but rigorous, data-supported strategic analytics and incorporation of AI/GCCcapabilities; establishesstandards, governance, and new ways of working to scale AI/LLM-enabled insights and GCC delivery with speed, quality, and repeatability.

• Lead executive-level strategy framing and decisioning, presenting TA/DA strategies to TAU LT, SPD and R&D leadership teams, and TET with clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations to secure endorsement and drive downstream execution.

• Own the external-facing TA/DA strategic narrativein partnership with IR and Corporate Communications, ensuring consistency, defensibility, and alignment to enterprise priorities for external stakeholder audiences.

• Establish and lead surveillance and early-warning capabilities with respect to the therapeutic area landscape (competitive activity, BD/M&A, product approvals, clinical readouts, financial reporting), partnering with competitive intelligence and brand teams to translate "what's happening" into "what it means for us" including implications, risk mitigations, and recommended actions for executives.

• Own the commercial strategy and commercial input into overall asset strategy from PE through MDE programs, setting expectations and quality gates for commercial inputs delivered via new product leads on GPTs, and ensuring consistent integration into program strategy and key governance deliverables (i.e.EPC and PRC materials).

• Own the bi-directional regional engagement modelwith regional new product leads and regional leadership tovalidatekey assumptions, reconcile regional requirements with global strategy, and provide decision-ready updates and escalations at defined milestones (in partnership with relevant regional new product planning leaders).
• Accountable for forecast governance and enterprise consistencyof market- and program-level forecasts used for LRF and portfolio prioritization, including standards,assumptionsvalidation, scenario planning, and executive-ready insights.

• Lead external asset search, prioritization, and evaluation aligned to TA/DA strategies, partnering with DDU, TAU, and commercial business units to drive disciplined decision-making across the opportunity lifecycle from early projects through marketed assets.

• Own the commercial assessment, value framing, and forecasting governance for BD transactions, ensuring assumptions are pressure-tested, risks and sensitivities are transparent, and recommendations enabletimelyexecutive decisions.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline required; MBA preferred, or equivalent education and experience.
• 12+ years pharmaceutical industry experience(or equivalent in management consulting,investment banking, or equity research)
• Significant experiencedeveloping corporate, therapeutic area and/or disease area strategies, anchoredin industry, market,company, and product-levelanalysis
• Experiencewithearly- to mid-stage pipeline commercial analysis,new product planning, and business developmentrequired; experience with late-stagepipeline, launch, and lifecycle management preferred
• Ability tobreakdowncomplex, ambiguous problems,identifyrelevant analytical approaches, and drive to pragmatic solutions and recommendations
• Experience withcommercial forecasting, P&L analysis, and dealmodels / valuationrequired; working knowledge offinancial statements,corporate financeandinvestor relationspreferred.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skillsrequired
• Exceptional communications skillsincludingthe ability toidentify, distill and communicate complex issues in a succinct manner
• Executive presence anddemonstratedability to effectively advise and influence senior executives

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

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U.S. Base Salary Range:

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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