Clinical product manager job description

USD140,000-USD170,000

As one of 2 product managers within the 65-person organization, you will have a great deal of oversight on product development, launch, and management processes. In addition, you will be responsible for most of the following:

+ Assuming marketing leadership on new product development programs as well as sustaining engineering activities.

+ Designing and executing product market research to ensure that overall market, customer and field sales input is captured and considered throughout the new product development process as well as the sustaining engineering process.

+ Being the marketing lead on all customer preference and product design validation testing to ensure designed products meet user needs as voiced in the strenuous testing environment of the cardiac catheterization lab.

+ Supporting the execution and performance of all product-specific training to the global sales organization.

+ Collaborating in the development of product development roadmap, product positioning, pricing, and promotional plans.

+ Interfacing regularly with customers and key opinion leaders via exposure through field interactions and externally-facing teams.

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Our client is a highly technical cardiovascular instruments and detection systems company, with complex product road maps, adoption cases, and operations. In order to be most successful in this role, you should meet most of the following:

+ 3 - 5 years of successful prior experience in the medical device industry

+ Cardiology & cardiovascular background required

+ Field sales experience is a "nice to have" - this role will interact heavily with Sales teams

+ Demonstrated expertise in new product development processes as well as leading the release/launch of new products.

+ Bachelor's Degree required - Masters preferred

+ Master's Degree preferred or in progress

Our Boston-based client is an intravascular imaging company committed to advancing the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease around the world. With ongoing investment in several landmark global clinical trials, they are advancing this important field of research and conducting landmark clinical trials to transform how caregivers view, treat, and prevent heart disease.

Aside from being in a cutting edge space, the Product Manager will also be eligible for a highly competitive remuneration package, complete with base salary, bonus, and more. The following will be offered for this role:

+ $140,000 - $170,000 base salary, depending on level of experience

+ Performance bonus up to 15%

+ Company-wide benefits including health care, vision, dental

+ 401K option

+ Remote flexibility up to 3 days each week

Healthcare Analytics Solutions (HAS) is an innovative team within Quest Diagnostics that leverages Quest data to develop products and services to improve outcomes in healthcare across many different markets (Pharma, Clinical Trials, Health Plans/Payors, Hospitals/Health Systems, and Public Health agencies).

This role will focus on leading product development portfolio strategies and activities within the Healthcare Analytics Solutions Pharma Data Services portfolio. Cross-functional business influence, prioritization negotiations and alignment, communication and transformational leadership are vital to success in this role. The Portfolio Product Manager is responsible for collecting, analyzing and acting on market intelligence gleaned from a strong network of internal and external partners, identifying opportunities to expand their portfolio to better serve and grow the HAS market share of their assigned business vertical. Portfolio Product Manager will work on building strategic partnership with external parties as per HAS vision and needs. The Portfolio Product Manager will translate defined and undefined needs into development initiatives and then partner with Current Product Management, Marketing and Sales to successfully introduce differentiated products to market. Share more information about the portfolio / business line.

Portfolio Product Managers must be subject matter experts on their respective domain. Prior experience and knowledge of data and analytics solutions for RWE/HEOR and/or Commercial and Brand analytics are critical to the role. The Product portfolio manager will develop and grow the data licensing business by leveraging technology innovations, develop the strategy for new data and analytics offerings across the drug development continuum specifically for early-stage research and commercialization segments, and identify new market and customer opportunities.

Portfolio Product Managers must also have experience with end-to-end product design activities, ranging from leading initial brainstorming of new product features based on detailed market analysis to implementation and introduction of those products into the marketplace.

The Portfolio Product Manager will be responsible for developing a 2-3-year strategic view of market growth, trends, and product development needs.

Develops relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) to forecast market trends, identifying and executing market capture and investment opportunities

Leverages competitive insights, Voice of Customer and domain expertise to form multi-year growth strategies to deliver accelerated customer value and outcomes

Assesses market conditions and customer profile definitions, translating intelligence to market modeling and product strategy

Partners with Marketing to develop high level product differentiation alignment and communication for the portfolio of business in their assigned vertical

Partners with Sales and HAS leadership to translate market intelligence and customer feedback into product portfolio strategy, anticipating customer needs, delivering proactively on a need before or as it is identified

Work with HAS Partner Development to develop technology/services acquisition & partnership strategy for their assigned portfolio of production

Partners with HAS and Technology leaders to identify, alignon prioritization of enablers on enterprise architectural runway to enable HAS capabilities to deliver customer outcomes

Create and maintain a visual depiction of the product portfolio and where each product is currently within the Product Lifecycle, so that the Product Manager can determine the appropriate plans to continue growing and supporting products over time.
Maintains overall roadmap progress and financial for all products related to the portfolio Responsible for developing, identifying and maintaining a clear definition and understanding of the customer, to ensure that products remain customer centric and meet customer needs. Keeps awareness of market factors including competitor products, consumer demand, and new trends, and shares this information regularly with the team and our stakeholders. Develop each product's vision and roadmap with key stakeholders and customers, by owning the creation of portfolio vision, and definition of the Product ART Epics Backlog (aka lean business case). Product Managers will also ensure alignment of the roadmap with broader HAS and Quest strategic themes. Prioritize and collaborate with coaches on resource product development strategies to execute on the product roadmap for their assigned vertical Collaborate with Technology and Architecture to understand and sequence Technology Enablers for Product functionality and build this into the Product's Architectural Runway Update management regarding overall Portfolio and related product statuses, risks and resolution options in conjunction with the Release Train Engineers and Coaches. Oversee all product management activities across a portfolio such as collaboration with external parties (Distribution Channel Partners, Service Partners) and internal handoffs to Current Product team. Drive the creation of executive-level presentations related to the portfolio (e.g., data analysis, graph generation etc.); Collaborates with the Agile coaches to establish Lean portfolio management practices to drive transparency and predictability Regularly review and communicate to IT, Medical, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory teams any adjustments to requirements, specifications, business processes and prioritization to support compliance Influence and lead the vision for product teams Participate in and grow Product Management Community of Practice
QUALIFICATIONS


Required Work Experience:


Demonstrated experience of healthcare content or related technical, data analytics, informatics, software and/or IT products Minimum of 8-12 years of Product Management experience to support software development Experience reading market intelligence reports and synthesizing content to develop a portfolio roadmap with focus on prioritizedproduct s Experience differentiating and defining a customer vs a market issue and developing effective solutions to address Demonstrated ability to draw relationship between products, strategize and build a value-based roadmap for that portfolio Work closely with business leaders to align on business expectations, value creation and related activities Experience managing portfolios of multiple health care products through full life cycle. Demonstrated experience in vendor selection & relationship management in the healthcare and/or data analytics space Demonstrated success in managing big portfolios with multiple products and relatedlife cycle of a products Expertise in cloud environments (AWS, Azure), databases, data structure, and data analytics tools Experience presenting complex products to multiple stakeholders Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Preferred Work Experience:


SAFe Agile Direct or indirect team leadership Negotiation frameworks Prioritization frameworks Knowledge of VOC techniques and translating VOC(s) as part of portfolio roadmaps
Physical and Mental Requirements:


N/A


Knowledge:


Data analytics Portfolio management Budgeting Value stream mapping Driving alignment using data Add functional specifics here
Skills:


Exceptional communication skills and executive presence; comfortable interacting and presenting with senior executives. Strong prioritization skills, managing complex products and projects through completion Alignment skills to bring critical stakeholders together with a common understanding of strategy, execution plan, and priority Superb relationship building capabilities Ability to design an ideal or optimized customer experience, synthesizing market intelligence and voice of customer Demonstrated ability to utilize and leverage basic business tools such as Rally, Jira, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, SalesForce.com and the like Customer focus Influence Strategic agility Macro growth planner Negotiation Business acumen Prioritization Financial acumen Communication across organizations Drive for results Relationship builder Works well in ambiguity

EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree(Required)

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**Job Description**

As a Product Manager working on the Customer Solutions (CS) team, you will be empowered and inspired to do your best work. You will lead the definition, development, and commercialization of products and services that drive the realization of the CS vision which is to connect healthcare teams with each other and the clinical and operational information they need when and where they need it. Our mission is to create more highly functioning teams and a superior experience for clinicians and their patients in the operating room and throughout the hospital. This role is global in scope and requires a blend of technical product ownership and savvy business management skills.

**Job Duties**

In a typical day, you will:

* Lead the definition, development, and commercialization of new products and services and collaborate with your regional market colleagues to ensure these solutions are commercially successful through appropriate pricing, targeting, and product feature set availability.

* Regularly engage with customers, partners, sales, and marketing to accurately understand the needs of the market; represent the customer and effectively use voice of the customer insights in all phases of the product lifecycle.

* Develop/communicate a strong vision for your product, creating a multi-year roadmap and maintaining prioritized feature backlog; work closely with R&D and program management to plan the timing and content of releases.

* Use detailed market, technology, and competitive sources to develop product/market requirements and user stories for all aspects of the product including features, licensing, ordering, implementation, service and support.

* Work with regional marketing teams to maintain multi-year product forecasts; use business systems to track unit sales, revenue, costs and profitability. Deeply understand the competitive landscape, provide product functionality and positioning information for marketing materials; review collateral and technical documentation for accuracy and completeness; lead product validation efforts.

* Serve as go-to product expert participating in tradeshows, thought-leadership activities, and forward-looking tenders/RFPs.

* Drive product success in global markets through development/delivery of effective product training, compelling value proposition and globally relevant messaging; ensure markets can effectively leverage for competitive advantage.

* Manage beta, pilot, customer advisory, and user community programs.

* Build strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

* All other tasks as assigned.

**Job Requirements**

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

***** Bachelor's Degree; Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred.

* A minimum of 5 years of successful product management.

* Ability to travel within the US and internationally up to 25%.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**

***** Healthcare industry experience.

* Experience with product pricing (especially subscription and/or leasing models), P&L, and business case development for software applications and platforms.

* Proven track record of managing complex projects to successful completion.

* Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills including interactions with Marketing, sales and senior leadership.

* Track record of commercial success in collaborative and cross-functional product delivery environments.

* Ability to make high-stakes, well-reasoned, and timely decisions with incomplete information.

* Ability to rapidly establish credibility with key R&D and customer stakeholders; mature technical and business judgement.

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