Head of Global Employer Brand & University Relations

Role Summary

The Head of Global Employer Brand & University Relations is a director-level leadership role responsible for shaping Takeda's global approach to attracting, engaging, and developing future talent worldwide. You will define and advance Takeda’s global employer brand and early career strategies to strengthen long-term workforce capability in support of enterprise business priorities. You will lead the global function for employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent marketing technology, and university relations, ensuring a data-driven, digitally enabled talent attraction strategy across experienced and emerging markets. This role requires deep expertise in global recruitment marketing, marketing analytics, talent technology ecosystems, and early career strategy, with strong executive influence and global leadership capability. This position follows the Global HR hybrid work model, with five in-office days per month at the Lexington, MA office.

Responsibilities

• Define Takeda’s global employer brand and talent attraction strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise workforce priorities and corporate reputation objectives.
• Own the global employer brand investment strategy, including budget governance and prioritization across markets, programs, and channels.
• Establish performance frameworks that connect employer brand and attraction activities to hiring outcomes, talent pipeline strength, and organizational impact.
• Provide executive oversight of Takeda’s global talent marketing ecosystem, ensuring technology, digital experience, and automation capabilities enable scalable and effective candidate engagement.
• Set strategic direction for innovation and modernization of talent marketing capabilities in partnership with HR Digital and Talent Acquisition Technology teams.
• Define and lead Takeda’s global university relations and early career strategy to build sustainable talent pipelines aligned with future business and capability needs.
• Partner across Global HR and business leadership to position early career programs as strategic workforce investments supporting succession, skills development, and long-term talent growth.
• Lead and develop a globally distributed team, establishing clear operating models, accountability, and functional excellence across employer brand and university relations.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior TA, HR, and business leaders on talent market perception, competitiveness, and emerging workforce trends.

Qualifications

• Required: 10+ years of progressive experience, with deep expertise in Employer Brand and enterprise‑wide program development across Talent Acquisition, Early Career and University Relations, or closely related talent marketing functions.
• Required: Demonstrated experience leading global employer brand and recruitment marketing functions within complex, multinational organizations, including oversight across APAC and European markets.
• Required: Proven ability to design and evolve enterprise programs that influence business strategy, including university relations and early career talent initiatives.
• Required: Deep expertise in marketing analytics and investment management, with a track record of delivering measurable ROI across paid, earned, and owned media channels.
• Required: Strong technical fluency across talent marketing platforms, including CRM, ATS, CMS, and marketing automation technologies.
• Required: Experience operating within life sciences, healthcare, or similarly regulated global industries.

Education

• Bachelor's degree preferred.