Experience

Takeda in Deutschland

• Germany
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• General Manager Takeda Pharma Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG Berlin Speaker of the Management Takeda GmbH

  • avr. 2022 - - aujourd’hui

  Jean-Luc Delay brings to Takeda an extraordinary background, with extensive knowledge and >30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as General Manager Takeda Pharma Vertrieb Berlin.His unique understanding of the biopharma industry stems from his training as a chemist and experience in pharmaceutical marketing, sales, and consulting.Pharmaceutical innovation appeals to Jean-Luc’s agile, solution-oriented mindset and his desire to help people and patients through acceleration of access for innovations. For Jean-Luc, team collaboration, diversity and inclusion & differentiating patient value is a central motivating factor of his job.Jean-Luc began his pharmaceutical career in Switzerland, where he held several positions in important Pharmaceutical Companies. He joined Takeda in 1999 as Business Unit Manager of Gastroenterology/Urology, a position he held for four years before becoming Takeda’s General Manager for Switzerland (2003–2012). In 2012, Jean-Luc became Country Manager for Takeda Berlin and as Chairman of the Board for Takeda GmbH Konstanz. Jean-Luc assumed the mantle of his new role shortly after Takeda’s acquisition of Nycomed, which marked an important milestone in Takeda’s growth toward becoming a global organization with company operations in more than 70 countries around the world. Uniting two separate corporate cultures and cultivating shared excitement for Takeda’s future was no small task, but Jean-Luc rose to the challenge. He has witnessed Takeda’s rapid transformation into a patient-focused, specialty care organization, and credits this shift with returning Takeda Germany onto a trajectory of double-digit growth.Before he took over the position as Head of Central South East Europe, where he was also also driving the integration of Shire into Takeda in CSEE and double digit growth, he became Head of Nordics and Baltics in 2016/17 driving innovation and great impact for patients, providers and people.



Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Europe and Canada

• Senior VP- Head of Central South East Europe (CSEE)

  • févr. 2019 - avr. 2022

  Jean-Luc Delay brings to Takeda an extraordinary background, with extensive knowledge and nearly 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as Senior VP & Head of Central South East Europe (CSEE; 25 countries) at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. His unique understanding of the biopharma industry stems from his training as a chemist and experience in pharmaceutical marketing, sales, and consulting.Pharmaceutical innovation appeals to Jean-Luc’s solution-oriented mindset and his desire to help people. For Jean-Luc, patient value is a central motivating factor of his job.Jean-Luc began his pharmaceutical career in Switzerland, where he held several positions at Janssen, Grünenthal, and Healthcare & Pharma Consulting AG. He joined Takeda in 1999 as Business Unit Manager of Gastroenterology/Urology, a position he held for four years before becoming Takeda’s Country Lead for Switzerland (2003–2012). In 2012, Jean-Luc became Country Manager for Takeda Pharma Vertrieb GmbH in Berlin and accepted an additional role as Chairman of the Board for Takeda GmbH Konstanz. Jean-Luc assumed the mantle of his new role shortly after Takeda’s acquisition of Nycomed, which marked an important milestone in Takeda’s growth toward becoming a global organization with company operations in more than 70 countries around the world. Uniting two separate corporate cultures and cultivating shared excitement for Takeda’s future was no small task, but Jean-Luc rose to the challenge. He has witnessed Takeda’s rapid transformation into a patient-focused, specialty care organization, and credits this shift with returning Takeda Germany onto a trajectory of double-digit growth and high profitability.Jean-Luc is a dedicated long-distance runner with 13 marathons under his belt. A lifelong sports enthusiast, he started a running club for physicians at Takeda several years ago. Jean-Luc is married with three grown up sons. A Swiss citizen, he was born in Mexico.

• Senior VP-Head of Southern and Central Europe & Head of Customer Excellence

  • juil. 2018 - janv. 2019

• Senior VP-Head of Southern and Central Europe

  • avr. 2017 - juin 2018

• Senior VP-Head of Southern and Central Europe & Temporary Country Manager Takeda France

  • avr. 2017 - avr. 2017

• Senior VP - Head of Nordics & Baltics & Temporary Country Manager Takeda France

  • janv. 2017 - mars 2017

• Senior VP- Head of Nordics & Baltics

  • janv. 2016 - mars 2017



Takeda Pharma Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin & Takeda GmbH Konstanz

• General Manager bei Takeda Pharma Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin & Takeda GmbH Konstanz (Speaker)

  • janv. 2015 - déc. 2015



Takeda Pharma Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG

• Geschäftsführer / General Manager

  • nov. 2012 - déc. 2015



Takeda Pharma AG

• Brazil
• Software Development

• General Manager and Delegate of the Board of Directors

  • mai 2003 - nov. 2012



Takeda Pharma AG, Lachen SZ, Switzerland

• Business Unit Manager, Gastroenterology/Urology

  • août 1999 - avr. 2003



Healthcare & Pharma Consulting AG, Zug

• Project Manager / Partner and Member of Board of Directors

  • janv. 1996 - juil. 1999



Grünenthal Pharma AG, Division Takeda

• Business Unit Manager

  • sept. 1994 - déc. 1995



Janssen Pharmaceutica AG, Baar

• Product Manager, Sales Manager, Sales Representative

  • janv. 1988 - août 1994