[Hiring] Senior Manager, Trial Equity & Representation @Takeda

Role Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company to inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Senior Manager, Trial Equity & Representation based remotely reporting to the Director, Trial Equity & Representation.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to work towards their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, and work toward excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to provide Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a necessary contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

Goals:

  • Work with partners and team members to ensure the delivery of global trials with diverse patient populations representative of the anticipated population to be treated with the products in development.
  • Support diversity, equity and inclusion tactics for clinical trial programs.
  • Implement diversity, equity and inclusion strategies based on disease demographics and population data.
  • Direct trial level efforts to ensure delivery of diverse participant populations in clinical trials representative of populations anticipated to be treated with the marketed product.
  • Conduct training and awareness programs to educate clinical operations staff on the importance of diversity in clinical trial populations.
  • Provide additional management support for accelerated programs/trials.

Accountabilities:

  • Improve the development of the diversity and inclusion tactics at the trial level.
  • Provide oversight and coaching to study teams to ensure diversity of clinical trial populations.
  • Work with the Patient Engagement, Experience & Recruitment team to ensure strategies are in place to recruit and retain diverse patient populations with established trial goals.
  • Oversee tracking and measurement of effectiveness and success of diversity strategies at the trial level through the collection and analysis of multiple data sources.
  • Monitor dashboard and metrics to track progress towards meeting trial-level metrics, therapeutic area metrics and company level metrics.
  • Partner and work with the other members of the Clinical Site Start-up & Engagement (CSSE) team to meet the trial goals.
  • Be a role model for Takeda's values.
  • Provide perspective, insights, and knowledge to study teams during protocol design and planning.
  • Drive results that help embed diversity & inclusion in clinical trial principles into ways of working.
  • Distill complex issues and ideas down to simple comprehensible terms.

Qualifications

  • BS degree or international equivalent required; advanced degree is desirable.
  • 6+ years of experience in clinical operations, investigative site management, patient recruitment, data analytics, and trial optimization within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or other relevant vendor.
  • Experience developing investigative site and patient engagement strategies.
  • Demonstrate and explain unbiased data insights into clinical trials operational planning.
  • Explain data to facilitate decision-making processes.
  • Health care knowledge with a comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, health disparities, unmet needs, and underserved patient populations.

Benefits

  • U.S. Base Salary Range: $137,000.00 - $215,270.00.
  • Eligible for short-term and/or long-term incentives.
  • Participation in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Basic life insurance.
  • Tuition reimbursement program.
  • Paid volunteer time off.
  • Company holidays and well-being benefits.
  • Up to 80 hours of sick time per calendar year.
  • New hires eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

EEO Statement

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, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

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