Manager, Trial Equity & Representation

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company to inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a 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. Allow study teams to conduct ongoing delivery of trials within timelines that contribute to operational planning and decisions resulting in predictable delivery for achieving R&D goals.

• Support diversity, equity and inclusion tactics for clinical trial programs.

• Implement diversity, equity and inclusion strategies based on disease demographics and population data.

• Assist with directing 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.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• BS degree or international equivalent required; advanced degree is desirable.
• 3+ 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 under-served patient populations.

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:

Massachusetts - Virtual

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$116,000.00 - $182,270.00

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.

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.

Locations

Massachusetts - Virtual

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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