Digital Health Lead
Takeda Canada Inc.
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Job summary
Takeda Canada Inc. is seeking a Digital Health Lead in Toronto to localize, launch and scale enterprise digital health products within local care pathways, regulatory and pricing frameworks. You will drive adoption by clinicians, payers and patients while ensuring compliant, measurable value realization.
You will collaborate with CoE and LOC teams to tailor TDPPs, develop business cases and monitor outcomes to inform iterative improvements and scale.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience implementing digital health solutions in regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of local healthcare systems, policy and stakeholder dynamics.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without authority.
- Growth mindset with openness to feedback and continuous learning.
- Ability to drive adoption, change and cross-functional execution.
- Ability to translate strategy into local execution with clear metrics and delivery discipline.
- Comfort operating in matrixed, global-to-local operating models.
Responsibilities
- Lead localization, launch, integration and lifecycle management of enterprise digital health products in the LOC.
- Drive adoption by HCPs, payers/HTA, patients and caregivers; monitor uptake and outcomes.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations and privacy requirements.
- Own local implementation plans, KPIs and value demonstration; scale successful models.
- Collaborate with CoE teams to shape TDPPs, launch strategies and evidence narratives.
- Bridge IBU DD&T and Canada stakeholders for fast feedback and pragmatic execution.
Skills
Education
Job description
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
- 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 optimisation and scaling.
- 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 scan the Canadian market, identify and evaluate potential digital health and DTx solutions, and—following alignment with IBU DD&T CoE stakeholders—drive 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Owns 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.
- 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 prioritisation, metrics and delivery discipline.
- Comfortable operating in matrixed, global‑to‑local operating models.
- Excellent communication skills; ability to influence without authority.
- 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 Canada encourages applications from all qualified candidates. In accordance with our accommodation policies and applicable provincial accessibility legislation, please advise us if you need accommodation to participate in the recruitment process. Any information you provide relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
Employee
Regular
Full time
$130,000.00 - $179,300.00
- 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’une 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
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