Associate Director New Frontier Science (NFS)

Job Location: Deerfield, IL

LOCATION: CAN BE LOCATED IN CAMBRIDGE, MA, PALO ALTO, CA OR DEERFIELD, IL

OBJECTIVES:

This position has primary responsibility to contribute to enriching Takeda's pipelines by evaluating and capturing innovative technologies and biologies to create transformational medicines and therapies. This person will establish and maintain direct relationships with innovators and entrepreneurs and seek innovations predominantly from academia, biotech start-ups, and early stage venture-backed biopharmas.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Monitor academic and industry innovation activities in conjunction with Scientific Intelligence team through literature/databases/contacts/competitive intelligence for potential Takeda's innovative opportunities.
- Assist to identify, develop rationales for and champion themes for NFS involvement.
- Make innovative technological connections by rapidly assimilate information from literature, scientific meetings (internal and external), scientists and engineers, scientific technical concepts, theories and experimental data.
- Identify, and follow through on capturing external innovative science in the areas of emerging biology and technology in a cross-functional and global collaboration setting (both NFS identified themes as well as opportunistic innovations).
- Contribute to building diverse global KOL, innovator and entrepreneur networks by directly contacting and engaging these experts, especially in emerging areas of emerging innovation.
- Act as a liaison between portfolio projects and relevant Takeda stakeholders