Senior Manager, Technical Product Ownership

myhrabc; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora is seeking an IT Product Lead - CRM to guide the end-to-end delivery of CRM and client portal solutions built on Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud. You will own technical roadmaps, oversee API integrations, and collaborate with business stakeholders to align priorities and budgets.

In this role you will provide hands-on leadership, drive continuous improvement, and shape long-term product strategy across Salesforce ecosystems while managing cross-functional teams and ensuring

Responsibilities

• Plans for future changes to the CRM and client portal to meet GPO priorities.
• Forecasts demand for Salesforce-based solutions with other product owners.
• Partners with IT and business leaders to align initiatives with business needs and timetables.
• Provides hands-on technical leadership on Salesforce architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices.

Job description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere.

Job Details

SUMMARY

Under the direction of the IT Group Product Owner, the IT Product Lead - CRM serves as the technical lead and product owner for the CRM and client portal products supporting core Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) operations. This role is accountable for the end-to-end technology delivery of solutions built on Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud, including API integrations with other enterprise cloud platforms. In partnership with the Business Product Owner for CRM, the IT Product Lead ensures that products are delivered in alignment with business priorities, customer requirements, technical roadmaps, security standards, and service-level commitments. The IT Product Lead - CRM requires hands-on technical leadership - guiding architecture decisions, backlog prioritization, and engineering best practices - while collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to drive continuous improvement, value realization, and long-term product strategy. This role will establish product plans, technical roadmaps, work with technical architects to ensure a forward-looking design strategy within the Salesforce ecosystem, and collaborate with business and IT leaders on long-term strategies to maintain and enhance the product(s). The IT Product Lead - CRM is expected to demonstrate general knowledge and capabilities in all areas of the operating model and application lifecycle management. This role will provide coaching and guidance to a cross-functional team and must have a strong understanding of product design, product ownership, continuous delivery, lean practices, agile practices and execution, operations, and development/engineering. This role is accountable for maintaining service costing and resource budgets for their product(s). This role supports highly complex GPO business processes - including contract management, member relationships, and client portal operations - that require cross-team support outside of the immediate product team and will require managing and leveraging resources from architecture, release/change management, infrastructure, network, and other systems in support of the product.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy / Planning

• Plans for future changes to the CRM and client portal products to meet GPO customer and business priorities
• Works collaboratively with other product owners, customer relationship managers, and capacity planners to forecast demand for Salesforce-based solutions
• Partners with IT and business leaders to identify and prioritize initiatives based on GPO business needs and timetables
• Maintains liaison relationships with GPO business partners and IT partners to provide effective technical solutions within the Salesforce ecosystem
• Drives continuous improvement in all areas impacting the CRM and portal products, including Salesforce platform optimization and API integration reliability
• Develops business-focused concepts, including risk assessments, cost-benefit analyses, strategic initiatives, and task/defect fix prioritization
• Aligns with IT strategy and architecture teams to define and maintain the long-term Salesforce product strategy roadmap, including Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and integration architecture
• Fosters an environment of Design Thinking across the product team
• Develops and maintains product roadmaps that incorporate new features, technical debt reduction, and product end-of-life or retirement planning
• Works with Release Management and other product owners to ensure that products are reflected in business plans
• Interfaces with GPO clients regarding product offerings, costs, value propositions, and onboarding processes - particularly for the client portal
• In conjunction with the Business Product Owner, develops customer communications strategy that facilitates and promotes awareness of significant events for the product(s)
• Benchmarks and manages IT metrics established for the product team

Technical Leadership

• Serves as the technical lead for the CRM product team, providing hands‑on guidance on Salesforce architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices
• Guides the team on declarative vs. programmatic development decisions within the Salesforce platform
• Oversees the design, development, and reliability of API integrations between Salesforce and other enterprise cloud platforms, ensuring data integrity and scalability
• Owns the technical delivery of the GPO client portal (built on Salesforce Experience Cloud), ensuring it meets client expectations for usability, performance, and reliability
• Leads back