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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 R0143235 Date posted 01/28/2025 Location Zurich, Canton of Zurich

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Job Description

About the role:
The Digital Product, Senior Manager leads a product initiative within the Takeda portfolio, focusing on customer needs, strategic product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy. This role ensures the product aligns with business objectives and delivers value across the organization.

How you will contribute:
* Communicate how the product meets business priorities and goals across the organization
* Work with partners in technology, data, and ecosystem to accomplish product goals
* Identify high priority issues and provide solutions to customer needs
* Own the product strategy, design, development, and launch
* Ensure product teams comply with GDT architecture standards
* Lead a team of product owners, embodying product culture and customer-led thinking
* Participate in planning, system demos, and the inspect and adapt workshop for their Agile release train

Skills and qualifications:
* Applies advanced Terraform techniques for complex infrastructure solutions, guiding others in its application.
* Expertly orchestrates container ecosystems using Docker, advises on process improvements.
* Manages sophisticated Kubernetes orchestration tasks and coaches others.
* Executes Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment in complex scenarios, mentors others in process improvement.
* Automates complex tasks using Ansible, provides recommendations for enhancements.
* Optimizes Amazon Web Services architectures, advises on best practices.
* Sets up sophisticated automation pipelines with Jenkins, optimizing workflows.
* Manages complex configurations with Chef, improves setups, and coaches others.
* Designs and implements advanced Python applications, optimizing code and assisting others.
* Manages complex version control tasks with Git, advises on best practices.
* Handles complex situations in Microsoft Azure independently, provides guidance.
* Leads product management efforts, aligning product strategies with business objectives.

As an expert professional within the organization, you develop innovative 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

Zurich, Switzerland

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time
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Patient


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People


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Planet


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Zurich, Canton of Zurich


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