Senior Product Manager, Pharmacy
Codal · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
Marketing$140k–$160k/yrFull-time
About the role
This role supports a strategic Codal client in the virtual pharmacy space. You will partner with large healthcare systems and online/digital pharmacies to modernize how prescriptions are ordered, filled, adjudicated, and delivered.
Responsibilities
- Discovery & Strategy
- Lead product discovery engagements for enterprise healthcare, pharmacy, and digital health clients from initial vision through delivery planning.
- Drive workshops, stakeholder interviews, business process mapping, and MVP prioritization.
- Map end-to-end digital pharmacy journeys, including patient onboarding, prescription intake and transfers, insurance eligibility and benefits verification, claims adjudication, refill and auto-refill programs, fulfillment, and medication delivery experiences.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable product strategies, capabilities, and implementation roadmaps.
- Challenge client assumptions, identify product gaps, and recommend long-term platform solutions rather than simply documenting requirements.
- Partner closely with Solution Architecture and Engineering to define scalable technical approaches while balancing business priorities.
- Delivery Leadership
- Own one or more complex product domains across a client assigned platform while independently driving roadmap execution from concept through release.
- Translate pharmacy operations, PBM integrations, and regulatory requirements (including ePrescribing/eRx, NCPDP standards, pharmacy claims processing, and HIPAA compliance) into clear, actionable product requirements for engineering, design, and QA teams.
- Produce high-quality PRDs, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and feature documentation with minimal engineering rework.
- Break large initiatives into appropriately sized epics and stories that support predictable sprint planning and delivery.
- Develop a deep understanding of existing platform capabilities and proactively identify opportunities for reuse, simplification, and modernization.
- Manage competing priorities while helping clients understand tradeoffs between scope, timelines, technical complexity, and business value.
- Healthcare & Pharma Leadership
- Serve as a product leader for digital pharmacy and healthcare transformation initiatives, including: Virtual Pharmacy, Digital Front Door, Patient Portals, Clinical Intake, Prescription Management, Provider Experiences.
- Help define reusable healthcare accelerators and best practices that can be leveraged across future Codal healthcare engagements.
- Stay current on evolving healthcare technology trends, regulations, and digital care models.
Qualifications
- 7-10+ years of Product Management experience.
- Experience working within consulting, digital agency, or professional services organizations.
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or pharma application modernization.
- Working knowledge of the prescription (Rx) lifecycle, including prescription intake, clinical verification, insurance adjudication, dispensing workflows, fulfillment, and patient delivery.
- Experience with healthcare interoperability and standards is highly desirable, including: FHIR, HL7, SMART on FHIR, ePrescribing.
- Proven experience leading enterprise software products from discovery through delivery.
- Experience owning complex enterprise backlogs with multiple engineering teams.
- Strong experience writing high-quality PRDs, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and user flows.
- Demonstrated ability to independently decompose complex initiatives into well-defined deliverables.
- Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset.
- Comfortable working in rapidly changing environments with shifting priorities.
Skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
- Experience with agile methodologies and tools.
- Knowledge of healthcare regulations and standards.
- Experience with digital health and pharmacy platforms.
Benefits
- Medical, Life, Dental/Vision, and many more insurance types.
- Employer 401k match - 4%.
- Recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball.
- Office snacks and drinks + a fancy Bevi water machine with flavored water.
- Office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities.
- Hybrid work schedule for in-person collaboration and sprint-planning days.
Pay
$140,000—$160,000 USD