Senior Product Manager

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OBJECTIVES/

PURPOSE:

The Senior Product Manager role involves aligning business and technology stakeholders to develop and communicate a portfolio of (or larger products) product vision, managing product planning and backlog prioritization, and ensuring a sustainable end-to-end customer experience globally. This position reports to the Head of Design & Delivery and operates within the Development & Regulatory DD&T organization, supporting Global Development and Global Regulatory business functions.

• Product Strategy and Vision:
  Develops and conveys product(s) strategy and vision in collaboration with stakeholders, aligning with business goals and technology directions. Maintains and communicates the product roadmap and backlog to ensure team alignment and delivery of value.

• AI Native – Consistently challenge how processes and therefore products can evolve to exploit AI and drive towards the workforce and products of the future.

• Technical and Leadership Expertise:
  Requires understanding of clinical trial delivery and/or Regulatory processes, product management in pharmaceutical R&D, and the ability to bridge business and technical teams. Collaborates with product engineers and designers to support a modern product ecosystem.

• Qualifications and Skills:
  
  Prefers a bachelor’s degree in scientific discipline, computer science, or business administration, with at least seven (7) years of experience in R&D, IT service delivery, or related areas. Emphasizes stakeholder management, design thinking, and excellent communication skills.

• Align with key stakeholders across business and technology to develop and convey product vision

• Own product planning, including short-term release plans and long-term roadmaps

• Drive prioritization of the product backlog to keep the team unblocked and aligned

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Solicits information from IT Business Partners or from Business Stakeholders on business direction, goals and strategies to inform development of product strategies. Collaborates effectively with technology delivery teams to develop roadmap for new and ongoing product development. Builds and maintains the product backlog with the technical team.

• Continuously prioritizes the work in the backlog to deliver the most significant value to the product users.

• Facilitates and drive alignments among key stakeholders to develop product strategy, vision, and roadmap to support business strategy.

• Works within product budget established in consultation with stakeholders by balancing resources, vision development, and prototyping, and sustain product teams to deliver and maintain the product.

• Maintains- and serves as the communicator- of the product vision.

• Continually monitors and refines the product and performing service management

• Optimizes user experience.

CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE:

• Strategic Planning and Thinking - Develops product strategies, vision and roadmaps that align with the product line, architecture and technology direction and is consistent with enterprise priorities.

• Functional knowledge of Clinical Trial Delivery processes and technologies

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS:

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise:

• Understands the language the product teams use to conduct the business of the team, and is conversant with all the tools and techniques required to communicate with and send work to a team.

• Ability to operate within — the domains of any core technologies that the product requires to deliver capabilities (artificial intelligence or machine learning, for example) if required

• Is effective in translating technical language into business language as needed to bridge the gap between business and technical professionals engaged in the full product value stream

• Understands the business processes supported by the product and able to communicate with the relevant R&D…