Product Manager

Job Description

Product Management:


Maintains product roadmap and product backlog using inputs from vendors, current business needs, operational planning, and strategic planning.
Leads, plans, coordinates, and executes the application program and associated projects with a clear focus on communication, risk and budget management in a dynamic environment.
Define a vision and strategy for the product, in support of Company’s competencies, goals, and initiatives.
Provide operational leadership and understanding of the development path for the product.
Ensure the product roadmap and product backlog are visible, clearly ordered, and actively maintained to ensure work is focused on achieving the established product vision and strategy.
Perform continual assessment of available technologies and software to facilitate continuous improvements to meet operational goals.
Monitor satisfaction with their product, identify opportunities, and implement changes to drive solution delivery.
Ensure the product is well maintained, minimizing technical debt, to enable long-term stability of its services.


Cross Functional Team Leadership:


Lead cross-functional teams among stakeholders and ensure these cross functional teams support the goals for deriving value from the product.
Works closely with business leads, subject matter experts, and other clinical and business users to understand opportunities to maximize the value of the product requirements, working to remove conflicts between dependencies.
Serve as the leader of the product team, providing direction and accountability for advancing the value of the product.


Organizational Change Management & Communication:


Leads or ensures appropriate change management efforts while adapting to the needs of the business, and project(s) by engaging with appropriate teams on proper approach, style, usage of tools, and standards to best align communication and change management within overall company communication tools and protocols.
Owns standards for the release cycle updates for the product.
Develops and maintains overall strategy for timeline, planning, testing, dependencies, considerations, and communication plan across operational teams for each update cycle.
Utilizes understanding of change management processes, principles, and methodologies.


Sustainment and Optimization:


Engages with product teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to align best practices within individual business needs.
Maintains updated optimization plan across the application to achieve maximum value from the product.
Utilizes existing management channels and processes to inform and escalate key issues within overall sustainment and optimization decisions across teams and systems.


Administrative Leadership:


Prepare and present high-quality presentations to key stakeholders.
Develops and manage communication plans to ensure all stakeholders are fully informed.
Translates information and data into meaningful recommendations.