Responsibilities

• Lead Takeda's enterprise technology communications strategy, ensuring a coordinated and enterprise-wide approach to communicating DD&T contributions to business performance and patient impact.
• Define and continuously evolve Takeda's enterprise technology narrative and DD&T organizational narrative, ensuring consistency across executive communications, employee engagement initiatives, external visibility opportunities, thought leadership platforms and stakeholder communications.
• Build, maintain and champion compelling messaging and proof points across technology, digital transformation, data, cybersecurity and AI topics, incorporating stakeholder feedback, emerging trends and innovative and measurable communications approaches.
• Serve as the strategic hub and communications advisor for DD&T-related communications, aligning business units, communications teams and leaders around a unified approach that strengthens consistency, impact and engagement.
• Serve as the senior communications advisor and thought partner to the Chief Digital & Technology Officer, developing proactive executive communications strategies that strengthen connection and credibility with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead CDTO executive communications, spanning employee engagement, enterprise-wide communications, thought leadership, speaking opportunities, earned media engagements and owned content.
• Provide strategic counsel to the CDTO and DD&T Leadership Team on messaging, stakeholder perceptions and external reputation, change communications and employee engagement.
• Partner with DD&T leaders to ensure their internal and external communications effectively support business priorities and transformation objectives and are aligned to the Takeda brand and unified communications approaches.
• Lead Takeda's enterprise technology external communications strategy, elevating the company’s profile and credibility across the healthcare, biopharmaceutical, technology and AI communities.
• Identify and maximize opportunities that showcase Takeda's leadership in digital transformation, data and AI innovation and technology-enabled healthcare.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, marketing or a related field.
• 15 years of communications, technology communications, digital transformation communications or related experience, is necessary, preferably within the healthcare technology space.
• Demonstrated experience developing communications strategies for enterprise technology, digital transformation, AI, data, cybersecurity or innovation initiatives across large, complex, global organizations.
• Strong experience counseling and influencing senior executives, including CDTO (or similar roles) and their leadership teams.
• Proven success leading and developing high-performing, geographically distributed communications teams and building organizational capability across matrixed environments.
• Deep understanding of enterprise technology, digital transformation, AI and innovation trends, with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling and relevant narratives for diverse audiences.
• Experience developing and executing media relations and thought leadership strategies in the healthcare, biopharmaceutical, technology and AI sectors. Experience leading technology communications is strongly preferred.
• Established relationships with healthcare innovation-focused media outlets and reporters and demonstrated success driving high-impact external visibility programs.
• Extensive experience establishing enterprise communications strategies, governance frameworks, operating models and measurement approaches that drive organizational outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, influence without direct authority, and align diverse stakeholders across functions, regions and cultures.

Preferred

• Experience leading technology communications is strongly preferred.