Head of Financial Communications

Responsibilities

• Lead Takeda's global financial communications strategy, ensuring a coordinated and enterprise-wide approach to communicating the company's two-horizon growth strategy, business performance, long-term ambition and value creation.
• Serve as the lead communications strategist and advisor to the Chief Financial Officer, developing executive communications strategies that strengthen visibility, credibility and influence with internal and external stakeholders.
• Spearhead Global Finance functional communications, including internal transformation and communications counsel across the Finance Leadership Team.
• Serve as communications partner for CFO and FLT related ​to employee engagement and ​non-financial matters​.
• Lead the strategic partnership with Investor Relations, ensuring collaboration and impact across investor relations and communications teams that contribute to shareholder and analyst engagement activities.
• Define and continuously evolve Takeda's growth narrative, ensuring consistent activation across earnings materials, investor conferences, executive engagements, annual reporting and shareholder-facing communications. Drive alignment and integration across communications, business units and R&D.
• Serve as the strategic hub for investor-related communications, providing counsel to senior leaders and communicators on financial messaging, stakeholder perceptions and opportunities to strengthen investor and analyst confidence, while aligning business unit or brand communications teams around unified approaches and best practices.
• Set strategic direction for earnings communications and ensure excellence in execution, ensuring compelling and consistent messaging across earnings announcements, supporting materials, executive talking points and stakeholder communications, including media relations.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key financial and business media globally, including in Japan, to strengthen understanding of Takeda's strategy, business performance and long-term growth story among investors, analysts and other external stakeholders. Act as a company spokesperson as needed and ensure executive media readiness.
• Oversee communications strategy and amplification for major financial milestones (e.g., conferences and Takeda investor events) and contribute to or direct the creation of key financial stakeholder content and reports (e.g., shareholder meeting materials, annual shareholder letter and annual filings).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, finance or a related field.
• 12 years of communications, investor relations, finance or related experience, preferably within the biopharmaceutical industry. Experience with a Japan-based global company and the capital markets in Tokyo is a plus.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, shareholder dynamics, investor relations practices, disclosure requirements and corporate governance considerations.
• Demonstrated experience developing financial narratives and communicating corporate strategy, business performance, and growth priorities to investors, analysts and other external stakeholders.
• Proven experience counseling and influencing senior executives, including CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite leaders, on investor communications, executive visibility and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience working across multiple functions and senior stakeholder groups, including Finance, Investor Relations, Legal and executive leadership teams.
• Proven success leading and developing global, geographically distributed communications teams and building organizational capability.
• Extensive experience establishing enterprise communications strategies, governance frameworks, operating models, and measurement approaches that drive business and stakeholder outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, influence without direct authority and align diverse stakeholders across functions, regions and cultures.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial, strategic and business topics into clear, compelling narratives.