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 optimisation and scaling.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Desired Behaviors

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 current 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.

Worker Type
Employee

Worker Sub‑Type
Regular

Time Type
Full time

Base Salary Range
$130,000.00 - $179,300.00

Benefits

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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