Principal, Specialty Product Development – Strategy

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor in Germany seeks a data‑driven Senior Product Manager to lead development and rollout of strategy across market segments, aligning with corporate aims while differentiating the product portfolio.

You will partner with cross‑functional teams, translate market insights into product concepts, manage roadmaps, measure outcomes with KPIs, and communicate with executives to drive successful go‑to‑market initiatives in healthcare.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, healthcare, or closely related field.
• MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of product management, strategy, or related field experience.
• 5+ years of indirect influence, coaching, mentoring, and/or management experience.
• 5+ years of experience in health plan, PBM, pharmaceutical, health tech, healthcare delivery, or health care industry preferred.
• Experience in new product development and end‑to‑end product lifecycle management.
• Proven leadership and cross-functional collaboration in healthcare environments.
• Familiarity with Agile/digital product development methodologies.
• Experience communicating across multiple organization levels, including executive level.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and drive options forward.

Aufgaben

• Lead development and implementation of data‑backed product strategies and roadmaps.
• Build consensus and manage best practices for innovative, user‑centric solutions.
• Leverage change management principles for product rollouts.
• Oversee portfolio and roadmaps ensuring ROI alignment.
• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to inform ideation from launch to sunset.
• Ensure timely go‑to‑market execution with standard tools and practices.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to inform strategy.
• Stay updated on industry, marketplace, and regulatory developments.
• Translate market needs into product concepts/business cases.
• Advocate for customer voice across the lifecycle.
• Lead stakeholder feedback sessions and synthesize insights.
• Develop roadmaps based on vision and market research.
• Foster cross‑functional understanding of governance and quality.
• Collaborate with product managers to ensure resourcing.
• Demonstrate influence across the lifecycle and strategic execution.
• Define and track KPIs to measure impact.
• Maintain pulse of communications to support strategy.
• Resolve resource constraints and major program issues.
• Plan and execute product launches and pricing/positioning strategies.
• Ensure market‑fit and audience alignment.
• Provide data‑driven recommendations with build vs. buy analyses.
• Other duties as assigned.

Kenntnisse

Product management

Strategy

Data-driven decisions

Market research

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Leadership mentoring

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Jobbeschreibung

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of data‑backed product strategies and roadmaps that bolster the company product offering across market segments and align to corporate objectives while creating market differentiation.
• Build consensus, deploy, and manage best practices for product development, ensuring solutions are recognized as innovative, user‑centric, and informed by quantified market insights.
• Leverage change management principles applicable to product rollouts, including communication planning, stakeholder alignment, and impact assessments.
• Oversee the product portfolio and develop product roadmaps to ensure alignment with strategic priorities, resource allocation, and return on investment (ROI).
• Serve as a critical point of orchestration, working in partnership with cross functional stakeholders to inform ideation and validation to launch, refinement, and sunset.
• Ensure timely and high‑quality go‑to‑market execution by facilitating delivery of standard tools and practices for successful adoption and execution.
• Conduct formal and/or informal market research and competitive analysis to identify trends and inform product strategy decisions.
• Stay abreast of and understand industry, marketplace, and legal developments and their impact on the business.
• Will translate current and emerging market needs into product expansion, enhancement, and/or new product concepts/business cases.
• Advocate for the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle.
• Lead and/or influence stakeholder feedback sessions and support synthesized insights toward market‑informed product initiatives.
• Develop product roadmaps based on the product vision and market research.
• Nurture cross‑functional understanding and buy‑in to product governance frameworks to ensure process compliance, decision and output quality, and repeatability.
• Partner with individual managers assigned to products, projects, and solutions to ensure resourcing support needed to succeed.
• Demonstrate influence across the product lifecycle and establish credibility throughout the organization and with the Executive Team as an effective developer of strategic planning and execution of strategic solutioning.
• Define, track, analyze and report key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of product strategies.
• Maintain ongoing pulse of functions and communications throughout the organization as a “hub” to successful delivery of key tactics to support the strategy.
• Act as the primary point of contact to resolve project/product resource constraint and major program issues.
• Plan and execute product launches and go to market strategies, including pricing models, bundling, messaging, and positioning strategies.
• Ensure the product is effectively launched in the market and meets the target audience’s needs.
• Develop clear recommendations supported by structured problem solving, financial rationale, and trade off analysis (such as build vs. buy) delivered through executive level presentations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, healthcare, or closely related field, or equivalent work experience, required.
• MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in product management, strategy, or related field required.
• 5+ years of indirect influence, coaching, mentoring, and/or management experience required.
• 5+ years of experience in health plan, PBM, pharmaceutical, TPA, health tech, healthcare delivery, or health care industry preferred.
• Experience and expertise in new product development, end‑to‑end product lifecycle management, project management, marketing, sales, and/or strategic planning required.
• Proven track record of tangible success, including leadership and team collaboration/ relationship‑building/management in a health care or related environment required.
• Strategy consulting experience (professional services or internal strategy), product development, private equity, banking, corporate finance, corporate strategy, or equivalent experiences preferred.
• Familiarity with digital product development methodologies (Agile, iterative delivery, roadmap planning), even if not a technical product owner, preferred.
• Experience working with and communicating across multiple organization levels, including executive level required.
• Demonstrated experience in operating in ambiguity, proactively identifying issues, framing options, adapting or pivoting as needed, and recommending paths forward required.
• Participate in, adhere to, and support compliance program objectives.
• The ability to consistently interact cooperatively and respectfully with other employees.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in product management and strategy, with a strong focus on data‑driven decision‑making, market research, and cross‑functional collaboration. Proven ability to lead product development initiatives and execute go‑to‑market strategies in the healthcare industry.