Digital Health Lead

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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 goto-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 cocreation 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 andfollowing alignment with IBU DD&T CoE stakeholdersdriving 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 cocreation pilot launch or scaleup 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 inmarket 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.

Takeda Canada encourages applications from all qualified accordance with our accommodation policies and applicable provincial accessibility legislation please advise us if you need accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process. Any information you provide relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

Base Salary Range:

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 dun ensemble complet davantages sociaux. Léligibilité à ces avantages varie selon le poste et peut inclure:

• des primes ou dispositifs dintéressement à court et/ou long terme

• des subventions pour les abonnements sportifs et abonnements internet

• uneassurancesanté incluant la prise en charge des frais médicaux dentaires et optiques

• uneassurance vie de baseainsi quunassurance en cas de décès ou de mutilation accidentels (AD&D)

• uneparticipation au Régime enregistré dépargne-retraite (REER);contribution équivalente de lentreprise dans un régime de participation différée aux bénéfices (RPDB) (si admissible)

• une couverture en cas dincapacité de travail temporaire ou prolongée

• un droit à congés payés annuels avec jours de vacances jours de récupération et jours fériés spécifiques à lentreprise

• un programmede remboursement des frais de scolarité

• une variété davantages liés au bien-être