Director Product Management

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Roadmapping:

• Develop, define, and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
• Construct and maintain a detailed product roadmap outlining key milestones, deliverables, and timelines, and regularly update stakeholders on progress.
• Conduct thorough market research and competitive analysis to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for innovation and differentiation in the inventory management space.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Act as the primary liaison and product champion between product management and other departments, including sales, marketing, engineering, commercialization, customer success, and implementation teams, to ensure alignment and clear communication of product goals.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, gathering input and feedback to inform product decisions and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
• Coordinate with marketing and sales teams to develop go-to-market strategies, including product positioning, messaging, and launch plans.

Agile Process Management:

• Actively participate in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement to optimize team performance and product delivery.
• Collaborate with TPOS and engineering teams to define technical requirements, ensuring they align with the product vision and user needs.
• Track and report on product development metrics, such as velocity, defect rates, and delivery timelines, to drive continuous improvement in agile practices.
• Manage product development from concept through launch, ensuring that all stage gate criteria are met to advance the product through each phase of development.

User Story Development:

• Craft detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and use cases that clearly articulate the desired outcomes and value of product features and enhancements.
• Prioritize the product backlog based on business value, customer impact, and resource availability, ensuring the most critical features are delivered in a timely manner.
• Conduct user testing and gather feedback to refine and iterate on product features, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement.
• Collaborate with engineering and design teams to ensure scalable and flexible architecture that supports future growth and innovation.

Customer Engagement & Success:

• Engage directly with customers to understand their needs, pain points, and feedback, using these insights to drive product improvements and innovation.
• Collaborate with customer success and implementation teams to ensure a smooth onboarding process and high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.
• Monitor product performance post-launch, analyzing usage data and customer feedback to identify areas for further enhancement and optimization.

Financial Collaboration:

• Work closely with finance teams to build and iterate on pro-formas and business cases, ensuring the financial viability of product initiatives.
• Analyze financial data and forecasts to support strategic decision-making and prioritize product investments.
• Regularly review financial performance against projections, making necessary adjustments to business cases to reflect changing market conditions and business priorities.

Qualifications:

• Experience directly in product management, in the pharmacy or healthcare space with specific experience in inventory management solutions.

• Demonstrated experience managing both software and hardware products, with a strong understanding of the entire product lifecycle from conception to delivery.

• Proven expertise in building software products on shared platforms and managing products early in their lifecycle, with experience navigating the stage gate process.

• Proven expertise in agile methodologies, with a track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams in an agile environment.

• Strong technical acumen, with the ability to understand complex technical concepts and communicate them effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working closely with sales, marketing, engineering, finance, and customer success teams.

• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills, capable of making data-driven decisions to enhance product offerings and customer experience.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Science, or a related field.

• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and other agile project management and collaboration tools is highly desirable.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Full time

$124,000 - 190,850

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

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Affiliated Companies:

Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation