Title: Associate Director, Strategic Product Management (Life Sciences Products & Platform)
Location: Remote
Job ID: 00064560161
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When you join Cognizant’s TriZetto Product House you not only touch the future, but you shape the next generation of healthcare. Come be part of a culture that Innovates through hackathons, celebrates through numerous rewards and recognition programs, and recreates through various flexible workforce benefits supporting a healthy work/life balance. Apply today and begin building a meaningful career that matters.
The Strategic Product Manager is responsible for the overall vision and strategy (both short- and long-term strategic planning), thought leadership, product and platform direction, owns owns pre-sales and enablement, innovation and partner management. Works closely with market units to close strategic opportunities and to meet revenue targets as well as develop partnerships.
Job Title: Associate Director, Strategic Product Management (Life Sciences Products & Platform)
Role: Individual contributor
Essential Functions:
Develop practice Strategy:
• Define the Practice area and the outcomes the team aims to achieve for sponsors and sites (pharma eco-system)
• Develop insights on the key market and competitor trends with focus on tech evolution / new threats
• Develop a vision & comprehensive strategy for the LS PnP as well as execution roadmap
Own offering management:
• Identify market gaps, opportunity for new offering development
• Develop offering strategy and roadmap aligned with the most attractive growth segments of the market
• Design and develop a suite of repeatable and scalable offerings that address critical sponsor business outcomes
• Manage lifecycle (ideation to retirement) & identify investment areas in new offering incubation, growth as needed
• Oversee offering evangelization internally (SLS, Client partners) and externally (analysts etc.)
Manage sales trends:
• Manage translation of business problems into product solutions & work with sales leads; assist sales team qualifying prospects
• Participate with sales and account teams in executing select market segment penetration strategies
Credentialize deals:
• Be accountable for directing the deal pursuit process end to end within the service line
• Ensure Pre-Sales team is engaging clients in region to explore opportunities and better define desired business outcomes, through workshops/digital dialogues/demos/PoCs
• Provide input for Pre-Sales team to support priority customers in imagining how solutions can improve their business
• Ensure team is equipped and trained to credentialize deals with customers though deep subject matter expertise & experience in the specific markets (industry/geo)/practice area
• Engage priority clients directly to credentialize deals
Thought leadership:
• Engage with external analysts to position the product solution area expertise
• Define thought leadership & portfolio strategy, publish, educate the market and drive commercial conversations
Owns alliance relationships:
• Own alliance relations and partnership with vendors
• Establish and develop new strategic alliances and partnerships to better business outcomes
Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Advertising or Statistics. MBA desired. An equivalent combination of education and work experience may be taken into consideration in lieu of a degree
Required Experience:
• Minimum 10+ years in leadership role
• Minimum 10+ years of complex solutioning experience, with broad life-sciences domain experience
• Minimum 10+ years in in experience in clinical trial life-cycle and pharma sponsor and site engagement
Preferred background:
– Senior leadership role in product management, experienced in managing large global teams. Domain expertise across verticals. Track record of bringing products/offerings to market, as well as leveraging organizational capabilities to support offers/solutions
Behavioral Competencies:
· Strong problem-solving skills: Ability to analyze complex problems, identify solutions, and implement them effectively.
· Excellent communication skills: Ability to clearly and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Functional/Practice knowledge: Understanding of Product management methodology, user centric design, and ability to generate, oversee actionable and impactful roadmap that effectively engages the organization to achieve strategic milestones
Technical prowess: Deep technical expertise in SaaS collaboration platforms to bring to market offerings to address customer needs, and to create proof of concepts if needed, as well as commercialized solutions
Industry knowledge: Deep knowledge of Life Sciences and Clinical Trials ecosystem; ability to communicate across stakeholders
Commercial knowledge: Ability to analyze sales opportunities and qualify leads and opportunities
Executive Presence: Effective executive communication skills to clearly articulate vision and lead effective teams across the enterprise; productively challenge counterparts, bringing valuable insights
Relationship management: Outstanding interpersonal abilities; skilled in managing relationships with executive leadership and business units, effectively aligning stakeholders to strategic plans and mediating conflict
Leadership experience: Excellent organizational and leadership skills to build strong Strategy function and lead by example; strong project management, budgeting, talent management, and business operations skills
Salary and Other Compensation:
Applicants will be accepted till July 17th, 2025
The annual salary for this position will be in the range of $154K-$180K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, creativity, productivity, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.
If you are content with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
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Ce que nous offrons
- La possibilité d’avoir une carrière avec un impact. Ici, vous avez la possibilité de partager vos idées transformatrices pour aider notre entreprise et nos clients à améliorer le quotidien de tous.
- Prenez votre carrière en main grâce à notre écosystème d'apprentissage et de développement. Et lorsque vos ambitions changent ou que nous vous offrons de nouvelles occasions, nous vous aidons à pivoter en vous proposant des formations et des conseils pour trouver des postes qui pourraient mieux vous convenir.
- L’occasion de s'épanouir au sein d’une communauté diversifiée. Nous célébrons les expériences et perspectives d’autrui et encourageons un sentiment d'appartenance à travers nos groupes d'affinité et nos initiatives en matière de diversité et d'inclusion.
- Rémunération compétitive qui comprend un salaire concurrentiel et une pension avec des contributions équivalentes.
- Des prestations de soins de santé et financières flexibles pour vous soutenir, ainsi que vos personnes à charge admissibles, dès le premier jour au travail.
- Une vraie conciliation travail-vie personnelle. Nous offrons des vacances, des modalités de travail flexibles, des occasions de bénévolat, des événements sociaux et bien d’autres afin que vous puissiez être au mieux.
À propos de nous
Cognizant est l’un des leaders mondiaux des services professionnels. Nous transformons les modèles commerciaux, opérationnels et technologiques de nos clients pour les adapter à l’ère numérique. Notre approche consultative, basée sur une connaissance sectorielle, aide nos clients à concevoir, développer et gérer des entreprises plus innovantes et plus efficaces. Basée aux États-Unis, Cognizant (membre du NASDAQ-100 et l’un des meilleurs employeurs du monde en 2024 selon Forbes) figure régulièrement parmi les entreprises les plus admirées au monde. Découvrez comment Cognizant aide ses clients à garder une longueur d’avance grâce au numérique sur le site www.cognizant.com.
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