Takeda · 19 hours ago
Patient Recruitment and Retention Lead
United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$154K/yr - $241K/yr
5+ years expTakeda is a pharmaceutical company committed to improving patient lives, and they are seeking a Patient Recruitment and Retention Lead. This role involves overseeing patient engagement and recruitment services, ensuring high-quality recruitment deliverables, and managing vendor relationships to support clinical research studies.
BiotechnologyHealth CareManufacturingMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Oversee execution of patient recruitment deliverables regarding operational planning activities supporting clinical project teams building phase 2 through phase 4 clinical research studies including Early operational planning, Protocol synopsis feasibility assessments, Enrollment forecasting and modeling, building Recruitment support strategies (e.g. central recruitment), Recruitment and retention plans
Ensure delivery of high-quality subject recruitment and retention plans in collaboration with the Takeda clinical project teams/study team and contracted supplier(s) before First Patient First Visit
Manage quantitative decision support framework for strategy development, vendor selection, and objective setting
Manage contract and vendor relationship framework to align with adherence to RVRM and quantitative decision support framework
Systematically evaluate and communicate financial impact of specialist vendor (recruitment and retention) and recruitment strategies to important partners
Build daily delivery of activities as described above supporting clinical programs (e.g. including delivery of decision support data and methodologies for protocol development, site selection and management of recruitment support vendors
Support Director with activities related to process improvement and mapping, training, inter-departmental collaboration (e.g. compliance, DSI technologies)
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
5 or more years of experience in patient recruitment with evidence of increasing responsibility within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or similar organization
Expertise in developing recruitment and retention strategies, country/site identification, and generation of material and trial metrics
Successful leadership, and development of large, diverse globally dispersed teams experience
Knowledge of leading-edge trial optimization vendors, tools, and methods
Knowledge of current regulatory requirements and guidelines governing clinical research
Experience in process design and improvement
Understanding of clinical trials, relevant knowledge of GCP/ICH and applicable global regulations with regard to trial optimization strategies
Benefits
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives.
U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance.
A 401(k) plan and company match
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
A tuition reimbursement program
Paid volunteer time off
Company holidays
Well-being benefits, among others.
U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time
New hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
Company
Takeda
Takeda is a biopharmaceutical company that researches and develops pharmaceutical drugs.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.46B2025-06-27Post Ipo Debt· $2.4B
2016-09-01Grant· $19.8M
2016-05-08Grant· $38M
Leadership Team
Christophe Weber
President and CEO
Schuyler Fairfield
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Supply Chain
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