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Sr Mgr, Commercial Content SME

Takeda
August 20, 2026
On-site
Lexington, MA
$137,000 - $215,270 USD yearly
Marketing
About the Role
Provide enterprise-level commercial subject matter expertise to ensure promotional content, campaigns, and agency outputs align with brand strategy, customer engagement priorities, regulatory standards, and commercial objectives.

Key Responsibilities
- Commercial standards: Define and maintain enterprise commercial content standards, including messaging frameworks, brand voice, and omnichannel alignment expectations.
- Cross-functional guidance (SME): Advise brand, marketing, and content operations teams on vendor selection/management/relationships; set and enforce best practices to reflect commercial objectives consistently across campaigns and asset portfolios.
- Strategic content oversight: Review and guide high-impact promotional materials to ensure alignment with brand strategy, customer journey objectives (HCP and DTC), lifecycle stage priorities, and field execution needs.
- Agency governance: Partner with Agency Performance Managers to evaluate agency commercial quality, provide feedback, and drive corrective action when standards aren’t met.
- Capability development: Contribute to commercial playbooks, launch excellence standards, and training materials.

Qualifications and Essential Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required; preferred advanced degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related).
- 5–8+ years in commercial strategy, marketing operations, or agency management in pharma/healthcare.
- Direct ownership of HCP and/or DTC campaigns.
- Direct experience in regulated pharma environments.
- Brand-focused, customer-centric; high accountability for quality, compliance, and cost efficiency.
- Collaborative, enterprise-minded; can influence without direct authority; navigate Medical and Commercial priorities.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional stakeholder management.
- Strong knowledge of marketing strategy (omnichannel activation; HCP/DTC engagement models) and modular content/asset reuse methodologies.

Benefits (explicitly stated)
U.S.-based employees may be eligible for medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, disability, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, paid holidays, well-being benefits, up to 80 hours sick time/year, and up to 120 hours paid vacation for new hires; may be eligible for short- and long-term incentives.

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