Accountable for competitiveness of the products' features, functionality and quality. Provide strategic direction, focusing on the business and clinical needs of customers. Bring deep understanding of customer and market needs. Make decisions around product vision, strategy, road-map, and tactical choices. Work with development teams, providing necessary input to engineering on product requirements and design. Evangelize for the product with customers, commercial teams, and others.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities :
Ensuring customer focus by communicating and building rapport with customers as required and ensuring the voice of the customer is reflected in work processes.
Close collaboration with marketing to translate practice needs, market analysis, competitive analysis, and regulatory environment factors into actionable strategies and tactics for the product.
Partner with internal and external domain experts to highlight emerging practice trends and product/content needs of the customer.
Conducting product research to further understand the competitive profile for the segment worldwide (where applicable) and opportunities for growth.
Working with marketing, engineering, and services to create long-term product roadmaps, requirements, and business plans.
Driving product portfolio to meet the needs of the market. Responsible for strategy and execution of the product roadmaps and new product introductions.
Establish tradeoffs between internal development and business partnership activities with strategic partners-including contract negotiations and maintenance, product changes, forecasting and financials.
Coordinating the needs across a multi-functional organization, including marketing, sales,
operations, engineering, and services teams, while ensuring compliance with quality systems and regulatory requirements.
Evangelize for the product by presenting to customers and users groups; represent the product at trade shows and with media; sell product roadmap internally; participate in winning large deals; provide sales training, and generate enthusiasm for the product.
Create a team environment that encourages innovation.
Requirements: Bachelors Degree in Product Management, Marketing, Engineering, Business Administration, healthcare or related field
6+ years experience in product management, product development, or related field including workflow experience with similar products
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Strong analytical and process skills
Strong project management skills
Ability to work effectively within a matrix environment
Desired Characteristics :
MBA or Masters degree in Product Management, Marketing, Business Administration or related field
Degree in Medical Informatics
Degree and practice in a clinical discipline
8+ years experience in product management, product development or related field
Deep Product Management/Marketing expertise, including: market trends/analysis, NPI process, product roadmap development, requirements, product life-cycle management,
Healthcare product/industry/technical acumen
Leadership skills to lead teams and shape/lead growth vision and marketing strategy
Innovation develop new ideas through collaboration and execute on creative ideas
Team oriented ability to motivate and work well with diverse, cross-functional teams
Proven ability to work globally
Proven ability to influence and negotiate internally and with customers
This position is open to all candidates.
