Product Owner (SBE)

IND - 2028 Takeda Innovations India Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda in Bengaluru seeks a Digital Product Senior Manager to lead multiple digital products, shaping vision, strategic roadmaps, and value delivery aligned with business goals. You will guide priorities across products, manage budgets and vendors, and ensure measurable outcomes.

With 7+ years in product leadership, you will partner with executives, drive discovery, governance, and data-driven decisions while mentoring a team across functions, embracing AI-enabled tools to optimize product

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in product management or digital product leadership.
• Experience in vision setting, roadmap planning, and outcome-based delivery.
• Strong portfolio prioritization, value management, and benefits tracking.
• Proven ability to lead executive discussions and cross-group alignment.
• Experience with product discovery, research, experimentation, and hypothesis validation.
• Experience leading delivery across multiple teams and external vendors.

Responsibilities

• Set product vision, outcomes, and roadmap direction aligned to strategy.
• Lead portfolio prioritization, sequencing work, and tracking benefits.
• Build alignment with executives and partners; facilitate cross-team decisions.
• Shape discovery governance with research, experimentation, and evidence.
• Oversee delivery across teams and vendors; manage dependencies and risks.
• Apply enterprise risk management concepts and governance reporting.
• Use data, telemetry, and testing results to guide product choices and impact.
• Design operating models for intake, triage, change control, and support.
• Ensure governance, privacy, and data protection considerations are built in.
• Manage budgets, contracts, statements of work, and vendor performance.
• Lead change management, rollout planning, communication, and training.
• Coach product managers/owners and build team capability.

Skills

Product strategy

Portfolio prioritization

Executive alignment

Product discovery

Delivery management

Risk management

Data-driven decisions

Team leadership

AI-enabled tools

Job description

Digital Product, Senior Manager (global code: DD_DPM_F_DP_T). Function: Strategy Portfolio & Operational Excellence Location: India Author: Marko Ramovic Date Created: 24 April 2026

About the role

You will report to the Head of Portfolio Strategy and Operational Excellence. The Digital Product Senior Manager leads multiple digital products within the Takeda portfolio, with a focus on customer needs, product vision, strategic roadmaps, and value delivery. You will align product direction with business strategy, shape multi-product priorities, and help ensure the product creates measurable outcomes across the organization. A minimum of 7 years of experience in product management, digital product leadership, or a related field is required.

How you will contribute

• Set product vision, outcomes, and roadmap direction in line with business strategy and changing customer needs
• Lead portfolio prioritization and value management, making trade-offs, sequencing work, and tracking benefits against key results and objectives
• Build alignment with executive leaders and key partners, and facilitate decisions across teams that do not report directly to you
• Shape product discovery governance by guiding research, hypothesis testing, experimentation standards, and evidence-based decisions
• Lead product delivery across multiple teams and vendors, managing dependencies, release governance, and delivery risks
• Apply risk management knowledge, including enterprise risk management concepts, controls, issue and action tracking, and clear reporting
• Use data, metrics, telemetry, adoption, retention, and testing results to guide product choices and measure impact
• Design and improve operating models and processes for intake, triage, change control, support, and service levels where relevant
• Ensure governance, compliance, privacy, and data protection are built into product decisions, with audit readiness in mind
• Manage budgets, business cases, contracts, statements of work, and vendor performance to support product delivery
• Lead change management and adoption planning, including communication, training, rollout strategy, and readiness activities
• Coach product managers and product owners, support hiring and performance management, and build team capability

Skills and qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in product management, digital product leadership, or a related field
• Experience in product strategy leadership, including vision setting, roadmap planning, and outcome-based delivery
• Strong experience in portfolio prioritization, value management, and benefits tracking
• Proven ability to lead executive discussions, build alignment, and facilitate decisions across groups
• Experience with product discovery, research, experimentation, and hypothesis validation
• Experience leading delivery across multiple teams and external vendors, including dependency management
• Working knowledge of enterprise risk management, controls, issue and action management, and reporting
• Strong understanding of product metrics, analytics, telemetry, adoption, retention, and A/B testing
• Experience designing operating models and processes for intake, triage, change control, and support
• Knowledge of governance, compliance, privacy, and data protection requirements
• Experience managing budgets, business cases, contracts, statements of work, and vendor performance
• Experience leading change management, rollout planning, communications, and training
• Experience coaching product managers or product owners, with people leadership responsibilities
• Experience leading product management efforts that align with business objectives
• Comfortable using emerging digital and artificial intelligence-enabled tools to improve discovery, prioritization, and decision-making, and to support data-driven product outcomes

As an expert professional within the organization, you develop solutions to complex problems aligned with organizational objectives. Your work involves addressing intricate issues, requiring in-depth analysis and judgment. You also engage with key contacts outside your expertise area and contribute to the development of new concepts and standards. Operating with considerable autonomy, you serve as a consultant to management and an external spokesperson on major matters, often working independently and leading function teams or projects. Additionally, you play a role in training and mentoring junior staff.

Locations IND - Bengaluru 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.