Head of Global Employer Brand & University Relations
BioSpace, Lexington, MA, United States
About the role
The Head of Global Employer Brand & University Relations is a director-level people leader position responsible for shaping how Takeda attracts, engages, and develops future talent worldwide. In this role, you will define and advance Takeda's global employer brand and early career strategies to strengthen long-term workforce capability in support of enterprise business priorities.
You will lead the global function responsible for employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent marketing technology, and university relations, ensuring Takeda's talent attraction approach is insight-driven, digitally enabled, and aligned to evolving workforce and business needs across experienced and emerging talent markets.
Success in this role requires deep functional expertise across global recruitment marketing, marketing analytics, talent technology ecosystems, early career strategy, strong executive influence and global leadership capability.
This position follows the Global Human Resources hybrid work model, with a current requirement of five (5) in‑office days per month at our Lexington, Massachusetts office.
How You Will Contribute
Define Takeda's global employer brand and talent attraction strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise workforce priorities and corporate reputation objectives.
Own the global employer brand investment strategy, including budget governance and prioritization across markets, programs, and channels.
Establish performance frameworks that connect employer brand and attraction activities to hiring outcomes, talent pipeline strength, and organizational impact.
Provide executive oversight of Takeda's global talent marketing ecosystem, ensuring technology, digital experience, and automation capabilities enable scalable and effective candidate engagement.
Set strategic direction for innovation and modernization of talent marketing capabilities in partnership with HR Digital and Talent Acquisition Technology teams.
Define and lead Takeda's global university relations and early career strategy to build sustainable talent pipelines aligned with future business and capability needs.
Partner across Global HR and business leadership to position early career programs as strategic workforce investments supporting succession, skills development, and long‑term talent growth.
Lead and develop a globally distributed team, establishing clear operating models, accountability, and functional excellence across employer brand and university relations.
Serve as a strategic advisor to senior TA, HR, and business leaders on talent market perception, competitiveness, and emerging workforce trends.
What You Bring
Bachelor's degree preferred.
10+ years of progressive experience with deep expertise in employer brand and enterprise‑wide program development across talent acquisition, early career and university relations, or closely related talent marketing functions.
Demonstrated experience leading global employer brand and recruitment marketing functions within complex multinational organizations, including oversight across APAC and European markets.
Proven ability to design and evolve enterprise programs that influence business strategy, including university relations and early career talent initiatives.
Deep expertise in marketing analytics and investment management, with a track record of delivering measurable ROI across paid, earned, and owned media channels.
Strong technical fluency across talent marketing platforms, including CRM, ATS, CMS, and marketing automation technologies.
Experience operating within life sciences, healthcare, or similarly regulated global industries.
Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary Lexington, MA
U.S. Base Salary Range: $177,000.00 – $278,080.00. The actual base salary offered may depend on qualifications, experience, skills, education, certifications or professional licences, and the location from which the employee will perform the job. The salary will comply with state or local minimum wage requirements.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short‑term and/or long‑term incentives, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan with company match, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and wellbeing benefits. Employees are also eligible for up to 80 hours of sick time per year, and new hires may accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
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.
It 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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You will lead the global function responsible for employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent marketing technology, and university relations, ensuring Takeda's talent attraction approach is insight-driven, digitally enabled, and aligned to evolving workforce and business needs across experienced and emerging talent markets.
Success in this role requires deep functional expertise across global recruitment marketing, marketing analytics, talent technology ecosystems, early career strategy, strong executive influence and global leadership capability.
This position follows the Global Human Resources hybrid work model, with a current requirement of five (5) in‑office days per month at our Lexington, Massachusetts office.
How You Will Contribute
Define Takeda's global employer brand and talent attraction strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise workforce priorities and corporate reputation objectives.
Own the global employer brand investment strategy, including budget governance and prioritization across markets, programs, and channels.
Establish performance frameworks that connect employer brand and attraction activities to hiring outcomes, talent pipeline strength, and organizational impact.
Provide executive oversight of Takeda's global talent marketing ecosystem, ensuring technology, digital experience, and automation capabilities enable scalable and effective candidate engagement.
Set strategic direction for innovation and modernization of talent marketing capabilities in partnership with HR Digital and Talent Acquisition Technology teams.
Define and lead Takeda's global university relations and early career strategy to build sustainable talent pipelines aligned with future business and capability needs.
Partner across Global HR and business leadership to position early career programs as strategic workforce investments supporting succession, skills development, and long‑term talent growth.
Lead and develop a globally distributed team, establishing clear operating models, accountability, and functional excellence across employer brand and university relations.
Serve as a strategic advisor to senior TA, HR, and business leaders on talent market perception, competitiveness, and emerging workforce trends.
What You Bring
Bachelor's degree preferred.
10+ years of progressive experience with deep expertise in employer brand and enterprise‑wide program development across talent acquisition, early career and university relations, or closely related talent marketing functions.
Demonstrated experience leading global employer brand and recruitment marketing functions within complex multinational organizations, including oversight across APAC and European markets.
Proven ability to design and evolve enterprise programs that influence business strategy, including university relations and early career talent initiatives.
Deep expertise in marketing analytics and investment management, with a track record of delivering measurable ROI across paid, earned, and owned media channels.
Strong technical fluency across talent marketing platforms, including CRM, ATS, CMS, and marketing automation technologies.
Experience operating within life sciences, healthcare, or similarly regulated global industries.
Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary Lexington, MA
U.S. Base Salary Range: $177,000.00 – $278,080.00. The actual base salary offered may depend on qualifications, experience, skills, education, certifications or professional licences, and the location from which the employee will perform the job. The salary will comply with state or local minimum wage requirements.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short‑term and/or long‑term incentives, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan with company match, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and wellbeing benefits. Employees are also eligible for up to 80 hours of sick time per year, and new hires may accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
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.
It 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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