Job Description

Title: Digital Health Lead

Location: Toronto, Canada

About the role:

As the Digital Health Lead, you will be accountable for local adoption, implementation, and scale-up of enterprise digital health products, ensuring successful integration into local care pathways, access models, and regulatory environments. You will drive measurable uptake and value realization for HCPs, payers, and patients by translating enterprise digital health solutions into locally relevant, compliant, scalable deployments. You will execute centric, owning localization, launch, adoption, and ecosystem integration in partnership with cross-functional partners and Digital Launch, Access & Medical CoE (DLAM).

Reporting Manager: Head of DD&T, Canada

How will you contribute:

• In close collaboration with cross-functional partners, lead localization, launch, integration and lifecycle management of enterprise digital health products in the LOC, ensuring alignment with:
  
  • Local healthcare system structures and care pathways (e.g., EMRs, registries etc.).
  • Local external regulatory, legal and privacy requirements.
  • Local access, pricing, and go-to-market models.
• Drive adoption and sustained use of digital health solutions by:
  
  • HCPs and care teams
  • Payers / HTA stakeholders
  • Patients and caregivers
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and guidelines.
• Own local implementation plans, KPIs, and value demonstration, including monitoring uptake, outcomes, and feedback to inform optimization and scaling.

Co-creation with CoE Digital Launch, Access & Medical & LOC Ecosystem

• Actively participate in CoE led co-creation workstreams, elevating local insights, unmet needs, and system constraints to shape:
  
  • Target Digital Product Profiles (TDPPs)
  • Launch and activation strategies
  • Evidence, data, and value narratives
• Systematically scanning the Canadian market, identifying and evaluating potential digital health and DTx solutions, and-following alignment with IBU DD&T CoE stakeholders-driving the implementation of relevant initiatives tailored to local needs.
• Lead business case design, development, implementation, and performance management of local digital offerings, driving value from patient experience and/or outcomes with measurable short/mid-term impact.
• Take on strategic assignments (with CoE DLAM) to:
  
  • Lead or co-lead co-creation, pilot, launch, or scale-up initiatives across multiple LOCs
  • Support cross-market learning and reuse of successful adoption models
• Serve as the local bridge between IBU DD&T and Canada stakeholders, ensuring fast feedback loops and pragmatic execution.

Local Digital Health Environment Shaping

• Shape the external digital health environment in the LOC by engaging with:
  
  • Industry and digital health associations
  • Policy makers, Ministries of Health, and healthcare authorities
  • Data, interoperability, and health IT- bodies
• Support adoption of digital health and health data initiatives by:
  
  • Contributing to policy dialogue and regulatory or system changes impacting digital health integration, scale and sustainability
  • Aligning Takeda digital health solutions with Canada strategies and standards

Ways of Working & Interfaces

• Works in close partnership with:
  
  • Digital Launch, Access & Medical CoE
  • LOC Medical, Market Access/PVA, PSP, Commercial, and Policy teams

• Operates within IBU DD&T governance, digital health standards, and agile ways of working, while tailoring execution to local realities.

• Own the "last mile": Integrating digital health in-market, at scale, within real healthcare systems.
• Does not own digital health strategy, product vision, core solution development, cross-IBU TDPP prioritization & portfolio optimization, product build and roadmap

What you bring to Takeda:

• University degree in a relevant field such as health sciences, life sciences, business, digital health, health informatics, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of relevant experience, including substantial experience implementing digital health solutions or related healthcare innovations in regulated environments.
• In-depth understanding of local healthcare systems, policy, and stakeholder dynamics.
• Strong growth mindset, with openness to feedback, continuous learning, and adapting quickly in a changing business and technology environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption, change, and cross-functional execution.
• Connect strategy to execution through clear prioritization, metrics, and delivery discipline.
• Comfortable operating in matrixed, global-to-local operating models.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to influence without authority.

Desired Behaviors:

• Patient- and user-centric - anchors decisions in patient value and real user needs.
• Ownership mindset - takes accountability for outcomes, not just activities.
• Clarity & transparency - communicates priorities, decisions, and trade-offs clearly.
• Collaboration - works effectively across functions, regions, and cultures; builds trust-based relationships.
• Constructive challenge - surfaces issues early, pairs challenge with solution proposals, and escalates only when needed.

This job posting is for a new role.

Takeda may use additional Talent Acquisition technologies and artificial intelligence to support the recruitment process, including video interviewing. Artificial intelligence will be used to support, but not solely determine, applicability for a specific position.

Locations
Toronto, Canada

Base Salary Range:
$130,000.00 - $179,300.00

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.

Canada based employees may be eligible for a comprehensive range of benefits and incentives. Benefit eligibility varies by position and can include, amongst others:

• short-term and/or long-term incentives
• subsidies for fitness and internet
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• participation in the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP); company match into a Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan (DPSP) (if eligible)
• short-term and long-term disability coverage
• annual vacation entitlement; additional paid time off and company holidays
• a tuition reimbursement program
• a variety of well-being benefits

Les collaborateurs basés au Canada peuvent, selon leurs postes, bénéficier d'un ensemble complet d'avantages sociaux. L'éligibilité à ces avantages varie selon le poste, et peut inclure:

• des primes ou dispositifs d'intéressement à court et/ou long terme,
• des subventions pour les abonnements sportifs et abonnements internet
• une assurance santé incluant la prise en charge des frais médicaux, dentaires et optiques
• une assurance vie de base ainsi qu'un assurance en cas de décès ou de mutilation accidentels (AD&D)
• une participation au Régime enregistré d'épargne-retraite (REER) ; contribution équivalente de l'entreprise dans un régime de participation différée aux bénéfices (RPDB) (si admissible)
• une couverture en cas d'incapacité de travail temporaire ou prolongée
• un droit à congés payés annuels, avec jours de vacances, jours de récupération et jours fériés spécifiques à l'entreprise
• un programme de remboursement des frais de scolarité
• une variété d'avantages liés au bien-être

Worker Type
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
Regular

Time Type
Full time