Director Solutions Management

Digitalhealthnews; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total rewards package

Medical and life insurance

Holidays and vacation

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology firm in the UK seeks a Director of Solutions Management to manage product portfolios and customer offerings. The role involves defining P&L, leading product lifecycle management, and ensuring alignment with market needs. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and extensive experience in solutions management. Flexible working arrangements are available, including remote options. This position offers a chance to impact healthcare through innovative technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a solutions manager in similar companies for at least 18 months.
• Maintain awareness of development methodology and standards.
• Track record of managing product lifecycle successfully.

Responsibilities

• Manage the product portfolio and optimize investments.
• Define and own the customer offering from enablement to execution.
• Establish pricing strategies and market positioning.

Skills

Understanding of competitive product mix

Ability to analyze market gaps

Experience with product roadmaps

Customer problem translation

Talent recruitment and management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Relevant post-graduate qualifications

Job description

Location: Manchester, UK Job Type: Full-Time Employer: Allscripts The primary purpose of this role of Director of Solutions Management is to manage discrete 'units' and project teams to achieve the following:

• Manage the product portfolio
• Own the customer offering from enablement to execution (end-to-end PLM)
• Define the solution P&L
• Manage the ongoing performance against the P&L

'Unit' may refer to a specific project, release, or an overall product/platform depending on size and scope

For his/her given area of solution responsibility, the financial responsibility is to manage the investments and targeted revenue. The Solution Manager represents the solution to the business for proposals and results.

Location of this position is flexible. Allscripts are set up to accommodate remote/Home based working. We also have offices in London and Manchester.

Responsibilities

Manages the overall product portfolio:

• Assess market position
• Identify and translate key market/customer needs into offerings
• Utilize customer and market input to develop new product opportunities, overall product roadmap, and portfolio analysis and allocation
• Create and seek approval on strategic plan
• Optimize investments/spend against priority actions (e.g., maintenance, new development)
• Make program commitment
• Work with team to develop marketing and launch plan
• Conduct channel readiness
• Establish pricing to market

Owns the customer offering from enablement to execution (end-to-end PLM):

• Define market requirements to ensure seamless hand-off to Product Development
• Manage partner/vendor relationships/deals
• Manage market value proposition to product lifecycle management (PLM) to product delivery processes
• Conduct sales, operational and channel readiness
• Manage product positioning activities such as scope, buyer persona, packaging, etc

Defines the solution P&L:

• Create initial business case (including pricing/margin/volume)
• Partner with functional departments to ensure understanding/commitment
• Partner with Finance to inform budget preparation
• Be accountable to business for definition of P&L success

Manages the ongoing performance against that P&L:

• Partner with functional departments to ensure consistency with the P&L
• Represent the P&L performance to the Executive Committee and also to the Operating Committee when performance requires either a P&L change or action within the business

People Management:

• Identify and recruit internal/external talents to ensure effective mix of competencies
• Induct new joiners in order to quickly maximize performance
• Set and communicate team/individual objectives and KPIs to inspire individuals to achieve high performance
• Allocate work load to fully utilize every employee’s talent
• Implement development plans and coach individuals to reach their maximum talent
• Provide regular constructive feedback on performance/development and address poor/mediocre performance on a timely manner
• Recognize high performers to maintain motivation and retain key talent
• Regularly communicate on company news and team progress against business plan
• Create team spirit

Qualifications

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

• Successful completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant program of study is mandatory
• Relevant post graduate qualifications and professional memberships will be preferred. It is essential that a person at this level proactively maintain awareness of development methodology and standards to improve project, product or process quality

Experience:

• Understand the competitive product mix and emerging players and solutions in the market
• Understand the solutions, design and feature mix in the market/competitive products
• Have a fair idea of broad brush of competitive products in the market and product extensions there-in
• Ability to analyse the market gaps in product portfolio and recommend stages of product development
• Experience creating storyboards and interface with Architecture/Design groups effectively
• Experience producing product road-maps along with features and designs based on different stages of the product
• Experience interacting with customers, partners, market consultants to address market-product-competition mix
• Experience innovating product based solutions based on changing market and customer requirements
• Understanding of technology platforms which are prevalent in market/competition
• Ability to translate customer problems into features and design requirements
• Experience in a solutions management role in other similar companies previously at least for a period of 18 months

Travel Requirements:

• Owing to the requirements of market, customer, partner, design, development interfaces, should be willing to travel significantly for at least 60-70% of time
• Location of this position is flexible. Allscripts are set up to accommodate remote/Home based working. We also have offices in London and Manchester.

Working Arrangements:

• A person working at this level would maintain regular working hours appropriate for the location and assignment
• Work is performed in a normal office setting with minimal exposure to health or safety hazards

At Allscripts, our greatest strength comes from bringing together talented people with diverse perspectives to support the technology needs of 180,000 physicians, 1,500 hospitals and 10,000 post-acute organizations across the globe. Allscripts offers a competitive total rewards package, including holidays, vacation, and medical, disability and life insurance.

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About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of HealthTM. Connectivity empowers caregivers to make better decisions and deliver better care for healthier populations.