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Digital Product Manager

Zurich, Canton of Zurich
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On the Global Manufacturing and Supply (GMS) team at Takeda, you’ll be part of a rapidly transforming industry that’s applying technology and data in new ways. Within our agile, innovative, people-centric organization, your work will matter every day as you use your skills to help us manufacture therapies for patients on our four platforms:

  • Small Molecules
  • Biologics
  • Plasma
  • Cell and Gene

As part of the GMS team, you'll have the opportunity to pursue unique experiences and build new skills, and you'll know that the work you do every day makes an impact — on our patients, our people, our planet, and on yourself.

Job ID R0140495 Date posted 12/23/2024 Location Zurich, Canton of Zurich

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Job Description

About the role

As a Digital Product Manager at Takeda, you will lead a product initiative, setting a unified strategic vision and ensuring alignment between strategic goals and product development. You will be responsible for defining the product roadmap, guiding go-to-market strategy, and ensuring that product delivery continuously meets customer needs and business demands across our Manufacturing & Quality network. You will ensure that day-to-day delivery of the product portfolio aligns with the long-term strategic vision.

How you will contribute

  • Customer Relationship Management: Communicate product alignment with business priorities, address critical needs with stakeholders, and onboard customers to new/existing products.

  • Product Strategy & Delivery: Develop a product roadmap, define and prioritize features, drive product improvements, and use feedback and analytics for continuous improvement.

  • Monitoring and Reporting: Build and prioritize the backlog, collaborate with cross-functional teams, track success using OKRs and analytics, and manage risks.

  • Product Management Leadership: Own the product vision and strategy, ensure alignment with business objectives, ensure compliance and financial oversight, and lead talent development.

  • Agile Event Participation: Lead and participate in key Agile events, holding teams accountable for meeting commitments and delivering quality product increments.

What you bring to Takeda

  • Educational Experience: Bachelor’s or Master’s in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Technical/Natural Science) or equivalent

  • Professional Experience: Extensive experience in Digital, Data, and Technology and a proven record of managing strategic product development from MVP to market scale.

  • Customer Insight: Skilled at identifying and translating customer needs into a long-term product roadmap aligned with business goals.

  • Industry Knowledge: Experience in regulated sectors (e.g., pharmaceutical, healthcare) to ensure compliance and alignment with industry standards.

  • Strategic & Financial Proficiency: Ability to define the product’s strategic vision, manage financial performance, and leverage data-driven insights.

  • Cross-Functional Influence: Strong leadership across departments, executive stakeholder engagement, and alignment of the product with broader corporate goals.

  • Customer-Centricity & Innovation: Develop customer success strategies and integrate emerging technologies to maintain competitiveness.

  • Leadership Behaviors: Demonstrate strategic thinking, inspire others, focus on priorities, and elevate organizational capabilities.

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
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Working at Takeda

  • Inclusion

    Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as a vital contributor to our global team.
  • Collaboration

    A strong, borderless team, we strive together towards our priorities and inspiring mission.
  • Innovation

    Bold initiatives, continuous improvement, and creativity are at the heart of how we bring scientific breakthroughs from the lab to patients.
  • Top Workplace

    Recognized for our culture and way of working, we’re one of only 17 companies to receive Top Global Employer® status for 2024.
  • Work-Life

    Our people-first mission extends beyond patients to include their families, communities, and our own Takeda family.
  • Empowerment

    Through trust and respect, you will have genuine support from leaders, managers, and colleagues to do your best work.

What we believe in

Our values of Takeda-ism are Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance, with Integrity as the core. These are brought to life through actions based on Patient, Trust, Reputation and Business, in that order.

Our belief in putting people first extends beyond our patients — it includes their families and communities, as well as our Takeda colleagues and their families.

We are committed to embracing our differences, valuing different perspectives, and fostering a culture of respect, inclusiveness and empowerment.

Our embedded Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) strategy enables us to attract and retain exceptional talent, drives innovation, and helps address systemic inequalities in our communities.

  • Integrity

  • Fairness

  • Honesty

  • Perseverance

We're Steadfast In Our Commitment to Four Key Imperatives

Patient


Responsibly translate science into highly innovative medicines and accelerate access to improve lives worldwide.

People


Create an exceptional people experience.

Planet


Protect our planet.

Data & Digital


Transform Takeda into the most trusted, data-driven, outcomes-based biopharmaceutical company.

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Zurich, Canton of Zurich


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