Sr Product Manager

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Summary:

In this role, you will manage the vision, development, enhancements, and overall strategy for products supporting Vizient's group purchasing offerings. You will manage the development and enhancement of a complex product suite and participate in Agile ceremonies with a multi-disciplinary development team, driving the discussion for sprint planning, user story refinement and creation of product value propositions.

Responsibilities:

• Manage overall product strategy and enhancements, including roadmaps, business requirements and business launches, with minimal guidance.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs through voice of customer interviews, analytics, and research to help shape the vision and strategy, and deliver maximum business and customer impact.
• Own product execution by working closely with engineering teams that are responsible for building platform products, and ensuring backlogs are properly defined and ceremonies are effective.
• Partner closely with relevant product and engineering leaders and teams to communicate the product value proposition and align on the roadmap.
• Manages priorities of product business planning and life cycle across multiple products; ensures pervasive market needs are met, differentiated value is created, and roadmaps align to overall product strategy.
• Cultivate an environment that excels at measuring success through product metrics.
• Interpret data to identify potential business opportunities and make recommendations to product leaders.
• Collaborate with Vizient stakeholders to advance regulatory influence in areas of interoperability and data standards.
• Collaborate with product delivery, marketing, sales and other business functions to establish launch plans and communication strategies.
• Exhibit strong problem-solving and decision-making skills by addressing technical and strategic challenges with innovative solutions using both data and intuition to effectively navigate ambiguity.
• Help evolve our product operating model and elevate the product management practice at Vizient.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred. Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field. MBA, MPH or MHA preferred.
• 5 or more years of relevant experience as a technical product manager is required.
• 2+ years of platform domain experience is strongly desired.
• Proven experience, creating presentations and presenting to a variety of levels internally and externally required.
• Proven track record of driving product vision, strategy, execution, and launch.
• Comfort with highly technical concepts while maintaining a focus on product value.
• Relentless drive to learn new domains and keep up with industry innovations.
• Experience working on data platforms or platform engineering teams is strongly desired.
• Experience working with data specifications and data mapping between systems desired.
• Experience with EMR's, ERP's interoperability software or data standards preferred.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

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