Product Director, Vizient Reserve

Vizient, Inc; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. in Irving, TX is seeking a seasoned Product Leader to drive strategy, vision, and lifecycle management for Vizient Reserve and connected solutions. You will translate client needs and market insights into priorities, roadmaps, and enhancements.

You will partner with leadership, technology, sales, marketing, and delivery teams to bring new capabilities to market, optimize existing solutions, and align with portfolio strategy.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience required.
• Experience leading product strategy or management of complex technology-enabled products.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy, vision, roadmaps, and lifecycle management for interconnected products.
• Translate client needs and market insights into product requirements, priorities, personas, journeys, and use cases.
• Develop value propositions and portfolio plans with sales and marketing.
• Oversee product development and prioritization with agile teams.
• Coordinate product launches with technology, marketing, sales, and delivery.
• Lead discovery, testing, and validation activities to address client needs.
• Assess portfolio performance using market research and client feedback.
• Develop business cases and investment recommendations.
• Serve as primary product contact for internal clients with demos and guidance.
• Monitor product health and priorities across teams.

Skills

Product strategy

Product management

Stakeholder collaboration

Go-to-market

Executive communication

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

Agile

Job description

When you're the best, we're the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Summary: In this role, you will lead product strategy, vision, development, and lifecycle management for Vizient Reserve and interconnected product solutions. You will translate client needs, market insights, and business strategies into product priorities, roadmaps, and enhancements that deliver differentiated value. You will partner with leadership, technology, sales, marketing, and cross-functional teams to bring new capabilities to market, optimize existing solutions, and ensure alignment with broader portfolio and organizational strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy, vision, roadmaps, and lifecycle management across highly complex and interconnected products while identifying portfolio integration opportunities aligned with business and solution strategies.


• Conduct client and stakeholder discovery to understand business needs, user experiences, and market opportunities and translate insights into product requirements, priorities, personas, journeys, and use cases.


• Develop product value propositions, positioning, and portfolio plans in partnership with sales and marketing to support client retention, acquisition, and market differentiation.


• Lead product development and enhancement planning by defining business requirements, prioritizing features, evaluating business value, and coordinating with application development and agile teams.


• Manage product launches and releases by developing business release plans and coordinating resources and activities across technology, marketing, sales, delivery, and other cross-functional teams.


• Lead business discovery, concept testing, user acceptance testing, and product validation activities to ensure solutions address client needs and deliver intended business outcomes.


• Assess product and portfolio performance using market research, competitive intelligence, client feedback, win/loss analysis, and performance trends to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.


• Develop business cases and recommendations for product investments, build-buy-partner decisions, third-party relationships, and short-, mid-, and long-term product enhancements.


• Serve as a primary product contact for internal clients, providing product demonstrations, communications, education, sales support, RFP content, and guidance across assigned solutions.


• Partner with technology and business teams to monitor product health, development spend, resource requirements, and priorities while promoting consistent product management practices across teams.

Position on -site hybrid- 3 days. Locations, Irving TX, Centennial CO, Chicago IL, and Edina MN.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.


• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.


• Experience leading product strategy, product management, or development of complex technology-enabled products required.


• Demonstrated ability to translate client, market, and business needs into product strategies, roadmaps, requirements, and actionable priorities.


• Experience partnering with application development, technology, agile, sales, marketing, and other cross-functional teams.


• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with experience using client insights, market research, and performance data to inform product decisions.


• Experience developing business cases, product value propositions, go-to-market plans, and product launch strategies.


• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and executive communication skills.

#LI-AC1 Estimated Hiring Range: At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00. This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan!

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

Working at Vizient means shaping the future of healthcare, every day. Alongside our clients, we're building a healthier, more human healthcare system. We connect people, data, and solutions to enable healthcare organizations to improve financial sustainability, enhance system performance, and deliver better care. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, with 11 offices across the United States, Vizient has more than 5,000 employees who bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to transforming healthcare. Together, we're solving some of the industry's most complex challenges while creating opportunities to learn, grow, and drive lasting change for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve. Through our enterprise of companies, we deliver meaningful impact across the continuum of care: Apexus - The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration. aptitude - The industry's first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers. Kaufman Hall - Leading healthcare advisory services to support our clients in achieving financial, clinical, and operational excellence. Provista - Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic, and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health, and senior living.