Medical Lead
Delegación Cuajimalpa de Morelos, Mexico City Job ID R0188166 Category Medical Affairs Subcategory Commercial Business Unit Global Portfolio Division Job Type Full timeBy clicking the “Apply” button, I understand that my employment application process with Takeda will commence and that the information I provide in my application will be processed in line with Takeda’s Privacy Notice and Terms of Use. I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge.
Job Description
About the role:
- Lead, coach and performance-manage the MSL team, ensuring clear objectives, prioritization and development.
- Lead and execute the local medical strategy in alignment with global and regional plans.
- Act as the medical strategic lead within cross-functional teams (Medical, Marketing, Access, Digital, Evidence).
- Provide medical leadership for launch readiness and lifecycle management, acting as a medical role model.
How you will contribute:
- Define MSL engagement focus, deployment and scientific narratives in line with medical priorities.
- Ensure high-quality, compliant scientific exchange and external engagement by the MSL team.
- Synthesize medical and field insights from MSLs and translate them into actionable strategic input.
- Provide medical leadership for launch readiness and lifecycle management, including indication expansions.
- Build and maintain strong external scientific partnerships with KOLs, HCPs and scientific societies.
- Represent Medical in advisory boards, congresses and key scientific forums as appropriate.
- Support and guide evidence generation activities (e.g. Phase IV, RWE, registries).
- Oversee development and delivery of medical education, training and scientific materials.
- Ensure all activities comply with regulatory, ethical and company standards, acting as a medical role model.
What you bring to Takeda:
- Bachelor’s degree in medicine.
- Extensive Medical Affairs experience, including medical strategy and field medical (MSL) leadership.
- Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including coaching and developing teams.
- Strong scientific communication, stakeholder engagement and insight-generation skills.
- Thorough knowledge of the regulatory, legal and ethical framework for medical activities.
- Fluency in the local language and good command of English.
- Role-models Takeda's six culture pillars: Patient-Centric, People-Minded, Respectful & Collaborative, Decision Effectiveness, Performance Culture and Enterprise Orientation.
What Takeda can offer you:
- Competitive salary + annual performance bonus
- Monthly restaurant and meal vouchers
- Flexible work arrangements
- Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Among other benefits
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.
Empowering our people to shine:
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, or any other characteristic protected by law.
