Product and Programs Manager

HealthPartners; BLOOMINGTON (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HealthPartners in Bloomington, MN seeks a Product Leadership professional to supervise staff and manage product lines for health solutions. You will identify growth opportunities, develop a clear product vision, and lead end-to-end development initiatives to achieve corporate objectives.

The role requires strategic thinking, strong communication, and the ability to collaborate across teams without formal authority while driving market success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Health Care or relevant field.
• 5+ years experience with health plan products and services (delivery, financing, benefit design, administrative).
• Excellent teamwork and team leadership skills.
• Proven ability to think and manage products strategically while providing tactical support.
• Ability to work effectively and develop relationships across the organization without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Supervise staff, including hiring, transfers, promotions, discipline and performance reviews.
• Strategically manage line of products for health solutions to meet corporate objectives.
• Identify new product development and partnership opportunities for growth.
• Develop and document product vision aligning leadership and stakeholders.
• Lead product development process and determine successful strategies.
• Measure and improve product line performance, including financial and market success.
• Specify market requirements and ensure alignment with corporate goals.
• Act as market and customer expert, assess competitor capabilities and pricing.
• Gather market insights via primary/secondary research for internal use.
• Develop product plans and roadmaps aligned with market needs.
• Collaborate with external vendors/partners to fulfill product requirements.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to create promotion and distribution strategies.
• Provide coaching and performance feedback to staff; manage day-to-day operations.
• Support Sales/Service teams with strategy development and execution.
• Coordinate with team members to maximize product line success.

Skills

Team leadership

Strategic product thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Marketing/Health Care

Job description

ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Responsible for the supervision of staff, including having the authority to hire, transfer, lay off, promote, discipline and discharge, train, reward and review performance of employees. Ensures compliance to organizational and departmental policies and procedures.
2. Broad responsibility for strategic and tactical management of line of products for current and new health solutions products and programs to achieve corporate objectives.
3. Identify new product development and partnership opportunities which support strategic growth of product line
4. Develop and document vision for the product line, aligning leadership and key stakeholders towards a vision that meets corporate objectives
5. Lead product development process, following department best practices, to determine successful product line approach and strategies
6. Manage continuous improvement of product line performance-financial; market success, administration, feature development as appropriate and applicable within the lifecycle
7. Specifies market requirements through understanding market problems & needs, ensuring alignment with overall corporate goals and strategies
8. Serve as expert on customer and market needs as well as competitor positioning and developments. Understand, articulate and synthesize competitor capabilities and market strategies and how relevant HealthPartners product lines compare in strengths, gaps, positioning, and pricing within HealthPartners.
9. Utilize both primary and secondary research to gather market insight, assess and institutionalize within company
10. Development of product plans and roadmaps consistent with market requirements
11. Work with external third parties to assess vendor / partnership opportunities that fulfill product requirements
12. Partners with Sales and Marketing Communications staff to develop complete product promotion and distribution strategies.
13. Manage staff as assigned. Supervises staff to perform day-to-day management of product line. Responsible for hiring, coaching, performance evaluations, and terminations
14. Provide consulting support to Sales and Service Teams for group or market segment specific strategy development and execution.
15. Works collaboratively with other Product & Market Innovations team members to coordinate like product components and ensure maximum overall success of HealthPartners product lines.
16. Actively participates in the creation, update and ongoing testing of business continuity and disaster recovery planning and preparation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Health Care or relevant field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience and knowledge of health plan products and services (including delivery, financing, benefit design, administrative).
• Excellent teamwork and team leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven ability to think and manage products strategically while providing tactical support.
• Ability to work effectively and develop relationships across organization to motivate others input and support of activities without formal authority

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3 years Product Management or related experience
• Master’s degree or other advance degree/education

DECISION-MAKING

The position will have broad latitude in directing and influencing the use of resources to achieve product and program objectives. The position will operate with a high degree of independence in the execution of agreed-upon strategies. This position interacts with external stakeholders and with HealthPartners executive leadership.