Jobs · Marketing · New Jersey

Lead, Product Management - Healthcare

Cencora · Trenton, NJ · 2 mo ago
Marketing$94k–$187k/yrFull-time

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain product roadmaps, priorities, and enhancement strategies for assigned Provider Analytics products, with primary responsibility for the InfoDive® platform.
  • Align roadmap priorities with customer needs, market opportunities, business objectives, and strategic direction established by product leadership.
  • Develop business cases, value assessments, feature rationales, and investment recommendations that support product growth and customer value creation.
  • Continuously evaluate and adjust roadmap priorities based on customer feedback, product performance, competitive intelligence, evolving business requirements, and measurable adoption outcomes.
  • Champion the transition to an Agile PDLC framework by supporting standardized intake, discovery, backlog grooming, sprint planning, release planning, launch readiness, and post-release review practices.
  • Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and Program Increment (PI) planning activities.
  • Facilitate backlog prioritization and planning readiness activities to ensure development teams have clearly defined, prioritized, sequenced, and actionable requirements.
  • Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to drive change management activities, including stakeholder alignment, communication planning, training needs identification, readiness tracking, adoption support, and resistance mitigation.
  • Help establish consistent product lifecycle artifacts, including intake documentation, problem statements, PRDs, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, release notes, adoption plans, and post-launch results summaries.
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of product enhancements and capabilities across assigned Provider Analytics products.
  • Cook up with development, architecture, quality assurance, data operations, implementation, support teams, and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of product initiatives.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies and proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks, including process adoption risks associated with the Agile PDLC transition.
  • Ensure delivered solutions meet customer needs, business objectives, technical requirements, compliance considerations, operational readiness expectations, and defined acceptance criteria.
  • Support release readiness, launch activities, user adoption efforts, stakeholder communications, training coordination, and post-release performance evaluations.
  • Analyze customer feedback, operational metrics, product usage data, industry trends, market opportunities, and adoption signals to identify product enhancement opportunities.
  • Translate stakeholder needs, user requirements, workflow impacts, and business goals into clearly defined problem statements and actionable product requirements.
  • Evaluate opportunities to enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiency, increase adoption, reduce workflow friction, and create measurable business value.
  • Engage regularly with healthcare providers, administrators, operational leaders, and executives representing organizations ranging from large healthcare aggregators and physician networks to independent medical practices.
  • Conduct customer discovery sessions, workflow reviews, user interviews, feedback sessions, change impact discussions, readiness reviews, and product demonstrations.
  • Leverage active listening, customer research, discovery techniques, and change impact assessment practices to identify, clarify, and refine customer requirements.
  • Serve as the voice of the customer throughout product planning, Agile delivery, release, adoption, and continuous improvement activities.
  • Build effective working relationships across cross-functional teams to facilitate alignment, remove ambiguity, and support successful execution.
  • Communicate product priorities, roadmap decisions, requirements, Agile process expectations, change impacts, and release plans to stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
  • Influence decisions and build consensus among stakeholders without formal authority, especially during operating model changes and PDLC framework adoption.
  • Support and execute go-to-market strategies for new products, features, releases, and product process changes that impact customers or internal teams.
  • Partner with marketing, sales, implementation, and client services teams to define target audiences, launch readiness plans, communication strategies, enablement requirements, and training needs.
  • Develop and maintain release notes, product documentation, user guides, training materials, customer communications, and internal readiness materials.
  • Support product positioning, adoption initiatives, customer onboarding, competitive differentiation efforts, and internal enablement for the Provider Analytics portfolio.
  • Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and product benchmarking activities to understand industry trends and market opportunities.
  • Monitor healthcare technology, provider analytics, healthcare operations, Agile product management, and business intelligence markets to identify emerging capabilities and innovations.
  • Utilize competitive intelligence to support product strategy, feature prioritization, differentiation initiatives, and investment recommendations.
  • Serve as a product ambassador and subject matter expert for InfoDive® and assigned Provider Analytics products.
  • Communicate product vision, roadmap plans, enhancement opportunities, customer value propositions, change rationale, and Agile PDLC transition progress internally and externally as appropriate.
  • Support customer presentations, demonstrations, industry events, stakeholder meetings, change readiness discussions, and training activities as needed.
  • Foster enthusiasm and adoption of Provider Analytics products and standardized Agile PDLC practices among internal and external stakeholders.
  • Apply knowledge of provider operations, healthcare analytics, practice management workflows, financial management processes, pharmacy operations, and healthcare data environments to product strategy and feature development.

Experience And Educational Requirements

  • B.S./B.A. required; M.B.A. or advanced degree strongly preferred.
  • Previous experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, Associate Product Manager, Product Manager, or similar product development role preferred.
  • Proven success managing products throughout the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), including discovery, planning, delivery, release, adoption, and post-launch evaluation.
  • Demonstrated experience working closely with product development teams in Agile environments, including sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, release planning, and PI planning.
  • Experience supporting organizational change, process improvement, operating model adoption, Agile transformation, or product lifecycle framework transition preferred.
  • Demonstrated track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering successful products within complex business environments.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Miro, Figma, Microsoft 365 applications, and other product lifecycle management tools preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to create Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), business cases, workflow diagrams, change impact summaries, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, release documentation, and adoption materials.
  • Certification in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Product Management, Project Management, Change Management, or Program Management preferred.
  • Certified Product Manager (CPM), Product School certification, Prosci certification, or equivalent product/change management credentials preferred.
  • Experience supporting healthcare providers, healthcare analytics platforms, healthcare technology solutions, medical practices, or healthcare operations strongly preferred.
  • Highly Preferred Domain Experience:
    • Healthcare financial systems
    • Practice Management (PM) systems
    • Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
    • Medical practice operations
    • Pharmacy dispensing systems
    • Provider performance management
    • Healthcare analytics platforms
    • Business intelligence and reporting solutions
    • Agile product delivery frameworks and product operating models
    • Change management, adoption planning, and stakeholder readiness practices

Minimum Skills, Knowledge And Ability Requirements

  • Thorough knowledge of healthcare provider operations, healthcare analytics, practice management workflows, financial management processes, pharmacy operations, and healthcare data environments.

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