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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

Takeda is an industry-leading, global pharmaceutical company with an unwavering dedication to putting patients at the center of everything we do. We live our values of Takeda-ism – Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance – and are united by our mission to strive towards Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine.

Here, everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. At Takeda, you will make an impact on people’s lives – including your own.

Takeda is an equal opportunity employer.

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