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Job Description

Job Title: Patient Advocacy Lead
Location: Istanbul, Turkey

About the role:
With around 45,000 people working in approximately 80 countries we are a truly global partner for better health. By always putting people first, we empower employee so everyone can develop to his or her full potential.

Takeda Turkey operates in Turkey since 2009; we are providing better health to patients in different therapeutic areas which are Oncology, Hematology, Rare Genetic Diseases, Immunology and GI.

At Takeda Pharmaceuticals, we are seeking a creative, highly motivated, and compassionate individual to join us as a Lead in Patient Advocacy. This pivotal role focuses on engaging with patient advocacy groups to advocate for the favorable policy environment for disease management and innovative treatments.

Based in Istanbul, the Patient Advocacy Lead will report to the Market Access and Public Affairs Director.

How you will contribute:
- Internal Project Management: Lead and coordinate internal Patient Advocacy (PA) project team meetings, ensuring alignment with project requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate PA projects across various stakeholders, identifying interdependencies, milestones, and potential risks.
- Milestone Tracking: Maintain and update milestones in internal tracking and workflow documents.
- Facilitation: Facilitate projects, initiatives, and project meetings, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams.
- Project Scope Management: Create/maintain project scope, timelines, budgets, team, project plan, and project objectives/goals.
- Strategic Discussions: Facilitate strategic discussions with core team members across multi-functional groups.
- Progress Monitoring: Track and monitor project progress, including financials, schedule, resource constraints, risks, and contract status.
- Presentations: Prepare and conduct presentations to all levels of the organization, communicating project updates and goals.
- Documentation and Tools: Work with PA Leads to prepare and maintain required project management documents and tools, enhancing team communication and meeting planning.
- Administration Support: Support project administration by capturing and issuing agendas, meeting minutes, and ensuring adherence to timelines.
- Integration of Core Values: Understand and integrate Takeda's core values and behaviors into daily project interactions.

What you bring to Takeda:
- Bachelor degree in social science, public health, or a related field.
- Communication Skills: Strong communication, networking, and interpersonal skills.
- Technical Competency: Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
- Adaptability: Ability to identify needs from multiple stakeholders, translate terms and concepts for different audiences, and work collaboratively across internal functions.
- Project Management: Strong project and program management skills.
- Bio-Pharmaceutical Experience: Experience in the bio-pharmaceutical environment with exposure to rare disease and patient advocacy is a plus.
- Advocacy Experience: Experience (2+ years) in patient advocacy and policy environment.
- Language Skills: Fluent in English.
- Relationship Building: Demonstrated ability to build relationships with patient advocacy groups, professional associations, and expert stakeholders.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and leadership teams to achieve collective goals.
- Multi-Project Management: Project management and reporting skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Public Speaking: Confident personal presence, with skills in public speaking and experience managing live activities/programs.
- Initiative and Ethical Judgment: A self-starter, independent, and self-motivated, with exceptional ethical judgment.

More about us:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Empowering our people to shine:
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

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