Product Manager

Role Summary

The Product Manager aligns business and technology stakeholders to develop and communicate a product vision, manages product planning and backlog prioritization, and ensures a sustainable end-to-end customer experience globally. Reports to the Head of Design & Delivery within the Development & Regulatory DD&T organization, supporting Global Development and Global Regulatory business functions.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Vision: Develops and conveys product 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.
• Communicate how the product is meeting the business priorities and goals of the organizations
• AI Native – Challenge how processes and products can evolve to exploit AI and drive towards the workforce and products of the future.
• Collaborates with product engineers and designers to support a modern product ecosystem.
• 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
• Work with partners in technology, data, and ecosystem to accomplish product goals

Qualifications

• 5 years or more professional experience in R&D business lines, IT service delivery or related area
• Professional in-depth knowledge of product management in pharmaceutical industry
• Experience in stakeholder relationship management. Influential in orchestrating key stakeholders and product teams to turn product vision into reality
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, business acumen, and enterprise knowledge
• Understands design thinking
• Ability to demonstrate strategic and critical thinking, as well as problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and skills necessary to lead through change and influence without authority
• Ability to set priorities, deliver on deadlines and develop workflow processes and tasks in an evolving, dynamic marketplace
• Bachelor Degree in scientific discipline, computer science or business administration

Skills

• Strategic Planning and Thinking
• Functional knowledge of Clinical Trial Delivery processes and technologies
• Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise: familiarity with AI/ML concepts and translating technical language to business language
• Leadership: collaboration with Product Engineers, Business System Owners, Solution Architecture, and other stakeholders
• Decision-making and Autonomy: ability to evaluate technology platforms and software products
• Interaction: embedding with product teams to ensure transparency and stakeholder alignment
• Innovation: awareness of industry trends and applicability to product roadmap
• Complexity: effectively convey the product vision and rally support across communities

Education

• Bachelor Degree in scientific discipline, computer science or business administration