Job Description
About the Role
As a Digital Product Manager at Takeda, you will lead a key product initiative, setting a unified strategic vision and ensuring alignment between business goals and product delivery. You will define and manage the product roadmap, guide go-to-market strategies, and ensure that our digital solutions consistently meet customer needs while supporting the long-term objectives of our Manufacturing & Quality network. Acting as a mentor to Product Owners, you will champion customer-led thinking, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration in a global, regulated environment.
How You Will Contribute
- Product Leadership: Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and compliance standards.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with technology, data, and business partners to translate needs into impactful solutions.
- Delivery Excellence: Prioritize features, manage backlogs, and oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle-from MVP to market scale.
- Performance Monitoring: Use KPIs, OKRs, and analytics to measure success, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement.
- Agile Collaboration: Lead and participate in key Agile ceremonies, ensuring commitments are met and high-quality product increments are delivered.
- Team Development: Mentor Product Owners, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and customer focus.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Technical/Natural Sciences, or equivalent.
- Significant experience in digital product management, ideally in regulated sectors such as pharmaceuticals or healthcare.
- Proven success in delivering strategic product initiatives from concept to market adoption.
- Strong knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins), and software development best practices.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on delivery in complex, global environments.
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, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Locations
Zurich, Switzerland
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Top Skills
What We Do
For over 240 years, Takeda’s propensity to evolve has driven the next generation of innovation, and as a future-focused organization, we’re continuing to drive forward with endurance in our steadfast pursuit to achieve the best outcomes for our patients in a rapidly changing world.
We have been preparing for this period of value creation by investing in data, digital and technology, and we’re proud of our employees and their commitment to turning groundbreaking ideas into life-changing impacts.
Since our founding in Japan, integrity and putting patients first have been at the heart of our identity, and we will emerge ready for our future as one of the most trusted and science-driven digital biopharmaceutical companies. Join a team where your innovation impacts lives.
Together, we’ll realize improved outcomes by improving data quality, enhancing launch execution and improving the patient journey. You’ll play a critical role in accelerating data collection and increasing accuracy across all parts of the business. Patients across the globe will benefit from access to treatments afforded by greater opportunities and efficiency in our research and development.
Why Work With Us
We connect to our history and Japanese heritage through everything we do to bring our purpose, values, vision, and imperatives to life. We are committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients. Being a part of Takeda means having the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than yourself.
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