Digital Health Lead

Job Description

Title: Digital Health Lead

Location: Toronto, Canada

About the role:

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

How will you contribute:

• 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 optimization and scaling.

Co-creation with CoE Digital Launch, Access & Medical & LOC Ecosystem

• Actively participate in CoE led co‑creation work streams, 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 scanning the Canadian market, identifying and evaluating potential digital health and DTx solutions, and—following alignment with IBU DD&T CoE stakeholders—driving 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.

Local Digital Health Environment Shaping

• 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

Ways of Working & Interfaces

• 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.

• Own 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

What you bring to Takeda:

• 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…