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Director, Patient Engagement, Experience and Recruitment

Takeda

Company websitetakeda.com (Takeda, opens in new tab)

Base salary $177,000  to $278,080

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Virtual, MA

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company to inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as a Director, Patient Engagement, Experience and Recruitment based remotely reporting to the Head of Patient Engagement, Experience and Recruitment.


At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to work towards their potential through life-changing work. We offer stimulating careers, and work toward excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to provide Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.


Here, you will be a necessary contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.


GOALS:


As a Director of Patient Recruitment and Retention working on the Clinical Study Startup and Engagement team, you will be empowered to lead the vision of "next practices" in patient recruitment and retention to maximize efficiency, and patient centricity in Takeda's operational execution of clinical research.

  • Oversee and ensure the quality of existing patient recruitment and retention services to allow study teams to plan, forecast, and achieve patient enrollment goals.
  • Imagine and bring forth creative processes, methodologies, data and technologies to ensure ongoing delivery of valued Patient Recruitment and Retention services.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

  • Lead study specific patient recruitment and retention strategies. Guide outsourced model using strategic partnerships, real-world data, new technologies with a specific focus on oncology, rare disease, gastroenterology, neuroscience and plasma-derived therapies.
  • Provide guidance to Patient Recruitment and Retention team, creating activities to support clinical programs, including decision support data and methodologies for enrollment cycle time planning, protocol feasibility, site identification and selection, and recruitment planning and modeling, and selection of management of central recruitment support vendors.
  • Systematically evaluate and communicate financial impacts of specialist vendors (recruitment and retention) and recruitment strategies to important partners.
  • Grow a wide industry network to support the efforts of Takeda's clinical operations to reach enrollment goals.
  • Educate clinical operations staff regarding trial optimization principles to ensure application and broader expertise.
  • Empower and support members of team to achieve project specific solutions, perform continuous improvement and remove barriers to success.
  • Work with important partners to develop and support collaborative activities that deliver patient engagement and enrollment within our clinical research studies.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

  • BS degree required; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10 or more years' experience in patient recruitment, engagement and trial optimization within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or relevant vendor required.
  • Expertise with leading edge trial optimization vendors, techniques and methods.
  • Proficiency with software models and database structures.
  • Experience driving recruitment and retention strategies and country/site identification and/or generation of materials and trial metrics.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. 

For Location:

Massachusetts - Virtual

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$177,000.00 - $278,080.00


The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location. 


For information about our benefits, please click here.


EEO Statement

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.

Locations

Massachusetts - Virtual

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

YesIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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Pay in context

This role's base floor ($177,000) is above 78% of the 303 Business Operations roles in Massachusetts listed on this site; 16 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $135,000; the middle half runs from $118,550 to $167,400.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Takeda roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Takeda roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Director, Patient Engagement, Experience and Recruitment (this listing)$177,000 - $278,080
Global Market Access Strategy Lead, Mezagitamab$177,000 - $278,080
Global Category Lead - Discovery Research$177,000 - $278,080
Head of Analytical Data & Statistics$177,000 - $278,080
Director, GDO Trial Performance Intelligence & Strategy$177,000 - $278,080
Director, Global Regulatory Labeling Strategy$177,000 - $278,080
Lead Technical Product Owner, AI-native End Point Generation$177,000 - $278,080

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Takeda roles · How to read the bar

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2026-10-20
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$177,000.00 - $278,080.00

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